Non-Fiction

Diet Book Review | The Calorie King 2009 Calorie, Fat, and Carbohydrate Counter 2009

Posted on July 13, 2009. Filed under: Non-Fiction, dieting | Tags: , , , , , , |

Last week, I posted my review on The Writing Diet by Julia Cameron, in which Cameron encourages people to write down what they eat to aid in losing weight. Well, as I started utilizing the technique, I realized that I knew very little about the nutritional value, or lack of, in the foods that I [...]

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Book Review | How to Marry the Man of Your Choice by Margaret Kent

Posted on July 12, 2009. Filed under: Dating Book Reviews, Non-Fiction, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

This book is strictly for women who want to be married now. It’s not for women who are holding on tight to the strict dating codes that they have been practicing for all of their lives. After all, if those practices were working, then these women would be married.
Margaret Kent offers a step-by-step plan for [...]

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Book Review | The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size by Julia Cameron

Posted on July 10, 2009. Filed under: Non-Fiction, dieting | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

How I Found The Writing Diet
The Writing Diet is one of the many books that I have found rather randomly on the book shelves at Barnes and Noble, but I am very glad that I did.
As I was perusing the shelves for a summer read that would help me become more focused on my creative [...]

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Book Review | Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey

Posted on April 11, 2009. Filed under: Dating Book Reviews, Non-Fiction | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

This has to be one of the hottest relationship books out right now for women!!! When I was in the salon a few weeks ago, I saw 3 women carrying it around and reading it under the hair dryer! Of course, I jumped on the bandwagon and purchased the hardback book for about $25 from [...]

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Book Review | Time to Write by Kelly L. Stone

Posted on May 16, 2008. Filed under: Non-Fiction | Tags: , , , , , , , |

After beginning my adventures in blogging and becoming much more serious about producing a novel, I found myself stuck in a rut. During this time, I turned to my first love (reading) and began this blog to record my thoughts and reactions to my readings.
Browsing along the shelves in Barnes & Noble, I found the [...]

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Book Review: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama

Posted on March 9, 2008. Filed under: Non-Fiction, Politics | Tags: , , , , |

Whew! It’s difficult to find a lot of time to read lately, but I have picked up a copy of Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope. For anyone who may not be aware, Illinois Senator Barack Obama is currently vying for a chance to become the Democratic Candidate for the 2008 Presidential Election. I decided [...]

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Book Review: Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham

Posted on February 24, 2008. Filed under: African-American, Non-Fiction, book review | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

I stumbled upon Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class, an intriguing novel by Lawrence Otis Graham, after doing a Yahoo! search for “black affluent neighborhoods.” I was trying to find out what neighborhoods in America the black elite live in.
Well, I did not find a website containing that particular information, but I [...]

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