An Anguished Cry For Our Endangered Planet - Gladwin Das

Goodreads First Read

This book was fantastic. A physician's view of a global problem, it is written in a way that everyone can understand (not too technical). The truth can be hard to swallow but the sign from the Indian national park sums it up perfectly, "Nature has enough for our needs but not enough for our greed".

As a first time mom I have a different view of the world around me. It is no longer about what I can get from my surroundings but what I can provide for my daughter. Looking around the current global landscape the people on the earth will consume it in her life time which is a scary and terrible thought. What type of world will she have, will her children have?

All we can do is wake up individually to these real crisis we are generating. Personally we have chosen to install solar panels and buy an all electric vehicle, like a teardrop in the ocean I know, but if everyone took it upon themselves to change small things then the world would improve as a whole. My favorite quote of all time, "Be the change you want to see in the world".

Innocent in Las Vegas - AR Winters

A good quick read. A story that has been told before though.

A woman wants to become a private investigator and gets her first case and muddles her way through it with the help of a sexy mysterious guy that owns his own security firm. The family loves the guy and who wouldn't but the girl is in denial of needing help let alone a hot sexy man...

Everybody Freaks Out! - T Rowe Price

I received this as a Goodreads First Read. I ranked this as "it's ok". It is a children's book but for adults. I guess my daughter would like the pictures but the content I would not read to her once she is able to understand.

Having gone to college, and still enrolled in a Masters program I fully am aware of the cost of college and how expensive it is right now. I can only imagine how much it will be when my daughter is ready to go. I started a very simple savings plan before she was born to help with the cost and I still worry that it may not be enough.

I am not overly fond of people talking to me like a child and while this is a cutsey rhyme about saving up for college and the 529 plan I could have skipped reading it and just read an informational pamphlet. Illustrations were not bad though so I did like that.

Hogwarts Library

As a very early birthday present my hubby bought me the Hogwarts Library set. This set was awesome! I am a huge Harry Potter fan and these three books are supposed to be like textbooks that Harry would have carried to class. They are a further glimpse into the world that JK Rowling created.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them  describes some of the creatures that Harry sees in the 7 books we all know and love. There are some scribbles from the characters that make it cutsey.



The Tales of Beedle the Bard are magical children's stories. I think these will be great night time stories for my little monkey! The last story in the book is about the Deathly Hollows, nice to have it in a short story form to read aloud!



Quidditch Through the Ages breaks down Quidditch through the ages... see what I did there? It is amazing how much detail JKR puts into every aspect of her magical world. It makes it all the more vivid.

Itsy Bitsy Spider - Willow Rose

This book captured me from page one. I have been having difficulty finding a book to grab my attention, I am currently in the middle of about five books since not one of them really grabbed me. Itsy Bitsy Spider is a page turner though. I thought I knew what was happening, I thought I knew the ending but this book pulled one turn after another and I got lost in the pages!

Haiku My Cat Told Me The Kitty Speaks - Ken Malcom

Another Goodreads First Read. 

Cute haiku with popular internet photos.

Poems are not usually my first choice of reading material so not really sure how to review them. If you ever owned a cat you can appreciate the truth behind some of the haiku written. Great brain break book.

Nine Friends: In Time of Loss - Jeannie Seeley-Smith

I received this as a free download from the author. 

I thought this book was just okay. It was a super quick read and I think the price point would be a little high to grab my interest in a bookstore or online for a book that is barely 60 pages.

This book allowed for a more visual picture of the stages of loss and grief. I think it would offer someone a shallow glimpse of what someone else is going through to potentially help understand where they are on the road to recovering from a loss of someone or something. I have been through the stages of loss/grief and I do not think this book totally grasps at the emotions that I went through, this could be because of the small number of pages or because the author themselves experienced a different type of loss/grief. The title and the plot holds a ton of potential and if it was fleshed out it could be worth the price tag.