I could strangle that Little Red Hen!!!

It is 10:30 p.m. and I just spent the last half hour putting away groceries, emptying and loading the dishwasher. This whole time I am muttering to myself that "I am going to get copies of "The little Red Hen" for every flipping member of this family and force them to read it"!!!

This would be a waste of money, because each family member would be sure that the story is directed at the other family members and not them. The powerful message in this children's story would be too subtle and lost in trasnlation. Or worse yet, they would all agree that the book was absolutly correct and I should start baking bread from scratch.

Due to this fact - I will spend part of my day tomorrow reading Nicole Johnson's Book: The Invisible Women - when only God sees.

This is a book I have read over and over again, and I give it 5 out of 5 stars. It is a PERFECT gift for any wife and mother in what I loving call "The Parenting Trenches". I try to keep a few copies on hand and gift them when I sense the book's wisdom is needed by a friend. Read this book and find peace in the fact that every task we do is worth it, noticed and appreciated by He who matters most of all.

Book Review: Brisingr

I recently finished Brisingr by Christopher Paolini, the third installment if the Inheritance Cycle. The series was originally planned as a trilogy, but a fourth book is now in the works and the series has been renamed a "cycle". I listened to the unabridged version and it was over 29 hours long.

I am a big fan of the first two installments (Eragon & Eldest) but I was disappointed in Brisingr. I found the book self-indulgently wordy, drifting off relevant story lines in order to drone on with unending descriptive nonsense. I wish the Author had edited his scribing enough to keep the series a trilogy.

My favorite passage from the book: "Grim and out of sorts, without patience for the ordinary delays of life". I have to give props where they are due - that is beautiful writing - writing you can feel.

I give this book 2 out of 5 stars. It is worth a read only if you liked the first two books and want a long-winded bridge to the fourth (and I hope final) book in the cycle.