Friday, March 9, 2012

How to Con Your Kid

by: David Borgenicht and James Grace

Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

Synopsis:
The Book Your Children Don’t Want You to Read

How to Con Your Kid is the most useful (and sneakiest) parenting manual you’ll ever purchase. Within are hundreds of tips, techniques, and simple scams for getting your child to do exactly what you want—with your child none the wiser. For mealtime, bedtime, bathtime, and any other time of the day (or night), you’ll learn to:
  • Get your kid to eat by playing on his possessiveness.
  • Get your kid to bathe by “swimming” in the tub.
  • Get your kid to talk quietly by whispering back.
  • Get your kid to take medicine by pretending it’s superhero juice.
  • Get your kid to sit still by playing “I Spy.”
And dozens more tricks of the parenting trade!

I'm unsure how seriously to take this book. There really were some great tips in there, but there were some that will probably drive you and your child to therapy. Like telling a child with ratty hair that there are evil witches in there tangling it up...seriously not a good idea! Or the nose goblins, if it doesn't mess them up it will increase the amount of nose picking.

It is seriously a good read, entertaining and as I said, I did come away with a few tips I will try out. Like make getting ready a race. I did that yesterday when it was time to leave Grandma & Grandpa's house and it worked! I said "I bet I"ll get my shoes on before you get your boots on!" And they both raced downstairs and got their boots, raced back up and put them on while I worked (so very hard - lol) on getting my shoes on. And yes they both beat me. Then I raced CW with his coat and Chris raced Ivan. Fastest we ever got back on the road. I think this would make a unique shower gift, in a basket with some other little baby gifts.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Claiming Their Cat

by: Maggie O'Malley

Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

Synopsis:
Cat Watson managed to escape from the powerful drug lord Alvarez and right into the hands of the notorious killer—Rabid Rio. Rio promises to protect her and her baby if she becomes his mistress. With no money, what choice did she have? Then Rio's brother, Creed, shows up and vows his protection too. She finally feels safe, that she belongs only to discover they’ve betrayed her.

Lots and lots of steamy love-making and a strong plot...can't really ask for more in an erotic novel, can you?

I really don't want to give much away. Cat is a strong female lead, even though she is in way out of her depth. Rio is a werewolf who knows she is his "mate" the moment he smells her. That means he is bound to her, only she doesn't know that is what is going on. Did I mention she is really pregnant? So she walks in on Rio and his werewolf friend in a diner. Rio takes her to a doctor friend of his who ends up being the "mate" of his vampire friend, Draco...a man who usually walked around naked and had wild orgies every other day...Draco wasn't happy. That was Rio's fault too, the doctor had something Rio wanted, Draco was to go in, get it and wipe the doc's memory. Can't do that to your mate.

There are some serious twists, in the sex too. So if you don't like kink...best avoid this one. If you have a "just about anything goes in the fantasy department" you will seriously enjoy this steamy novel. And as I said, having a plot along side the romance really helped this story be a filling read.


Monday, March 5, 2012

Book Spotlight & Excerpt - Girl Unmoored

by: Jennifer Gooch Hummer

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Synopsis:
Apron Bramhall has come unmoored. It’s 1985 and her mom has passed away, her evil stepmother is pregnant, and her best friend has traded her in for a newer model. Fortunately, she’s about to be saved by Jesus. Not that Jesus—the actor who plays him in Jesus Christ, Superstar. Apron is desperate to avoid the look-alike Mike (no one should look that much like Jesus unless they can perform a miracle or two), but suddenly he’s everywhere. Until one day, she’s stuck in church with him—of all places. And then something happens; Apron’s broken teenage heart blinks on for the first time since she’s been adrift.

Mike and his grumpy boyfriend, Chad, offer her a summer job in their flower store and Apron’s world seems to calm. But when she uncovers Chad’s secret, coming of age becomes almost too much bear. She’s forced to see things the adults around her fail to—like what love really means and who is paying too much for it.


Excerpt Pg 188-189 in book.

At first Rennie didn’t see Mike, or M, or me walking my bike. But when she turned to say something to her mother, her face lit up. “Hey!” she said waving to Mike. “Mike! Mike Weller!” and came running over.

Mike stopped and smiled, keeping a hand on M so she wouldn’t fall over. “Hey, Rennie,” he said.

Her face turned neon pink, you could tell she was flattered he remembered her name.

When Mr. and Mrs. Perry saw the three of us standing there, they started toward us too, dragging Eeebs along.

“Mom and Dad, this is the Jesus, remember?”

Mr. Perry said, “Oh, of course. Pleased to meet you,” and held out his hand. Then he nudged Eeebs to do the same. “This is my son, Ebert.”

“Nice to meet you,” Eeebs grumbled, shaking Mike’s hand.

But Mrs. Perry crossed her arms. “Weren’t you the one who delivered the flowers this morning?”

“Yes,” Mike answered. “That was me.”

“So how do you know Margie and Apron?” she asked through her tight mouth, looking over to me, standing on the other side of M.

“From Scent Appeal,” I answered, staring at Rennie. “That’s how we first became friends.”

“You’re Mike of the gays?” M asked, pulling her shoulder away from him. Her top lip was touching her pointy nose now.

Mr. Perry looked down, but Mrs. Perry kept staring at him with her arms crossed, and Eeebs looked horrified. I started to say something, but Mike’s glance told me not to. Then he turned to M and lifted up a smile like it was the heaviest thing in the world. “The very same,” he nodded.

M just stared, but Mrs. Perry uncrossed her arms and raised her eyebrows and said, “Well, I will say, you people certainly know your flowers.” And with that, she steered Eeebs away.

“And you have a great voice,” Rennie added, before following her mother.

“Yes,” Mr. Perry agreed. “We enjoyed the play.”

“Thanks,” Mike said. “Glad you could come.”

Mr. Perry lifted his hand in a wave and when he turned away with the rest of his family, we all saw it: Mrs. Perry leaning into Eeebs’s ear to whisper something, and Eeebs quickly wiping his hand on his pants. The one he had used to shake Mike’s hand.

I looked at Mike, still hanging on to that smile, but barely. “I hate those people,” I said through my teeth.

Mike dipped his head at me and said as sad as the bluebird sings, “Then the cycle continues, doesn’t it?”

Shame knocked the wind out of me. Not just for how much I hated the Perrys now, but for how much Mike didn’t.

M broke the moment with a cluck. “Such the waste,” she said, starting on her crutches again, oblivious to what Eeebs and Mrs. Perry had just done. “You are too handsome for the boys.”

Mike grinned for real this time and started walking with her. “Well, if I had met you a little earlier things might have turned out differently.”

M looked at him with a big smile as a blush broke out on her face. And for the first time ever, I wanted to hug her.


(from Goodreads)About this author

Jennifer Gooch Hummer has worked as a script analyst for various talent agencies and major film studios. Her short stories have been published in Miranda Magazine, Our Stories and Glimmertain. She has continued graduate studies in the Writer’s Program at UCLA, where she was nominated for the Kirkwood Prize in fiction. Currently, Jennifer lives in Southern California and Maine with her husband and their three daughters. Girl Unmoored is her first novel. Please visit her at jennifergoochhummer.com.
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