Book Review: Soul Food Love

 

Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family

By Alice Randall & Caroline Randall Williams

This cookbook is absolutely beautiful, but it wasn't quite what I was expecting. I didn't realize the first half of the book would be nothing but family stories. I did find them interesting but I don't normally buy cookbooks to read them, its just not my thing. I like cookbooks to be beautifully illustrated and the recipes to be easy to follow. This cookbook did have pictures but not as many as I would have liked and in all honesty a couple of the recipes were just silly. In the dessert section there was a recipe that said to serve a thimble of burbon and dark chocolate. I guess that would be good as a random tip somewhere in the book but shouldn't take up a full page of a cookbook. Overall its a beautiful book and the quality is great, but its not one that I will keep in my collection. It is also one I won't be recommending to family or friends. 

 **I did receive this book free from the publishers for my honest opinion.**

Book Review: The Corruptible

The Corruptible

By: Mark Mynheir

When I choose this book to review it looked like something my husband would really love to read. He loves all those crazy mysteries and thought this would be something fun for us to read together. Little did I know that this was the second book in the series! I really would have liked to have known that when I was reading the description, so I was a bit disappointed when I found this out. The first book if you're curious is The Night Watchman (Ray Quinn Series, Book 1).

I will say that the back story was really easy to pick up as you were reading along with this book and honestly you wouldn't have to go back and read the first one if you didn't want to. I'm just the type of person who prefers to read from the beginning and not in the middle :).

It is about a dirty ex cop accused of stealing corporate secrets and is found dead in a motel. Ray Quinn is also an ex cop and his former colleague is hired by the corporation to find the secrets and in turn ends up investigating the death in the motel. Its an okay story with lots of suspects and police procedure. Not exactly what my husband and I were looking for in a mystery. Maybe for someone else this would be a great book but for us it was just so so. I honestly probably wouldn't really recommend this to many of my friends and family who enjoy a good mystery.

**"I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review”. **

Book Review for Blind Hope: An Unwanted Dog and the Woman She Rescued

I have really been slacking when it comes to my book reviews. I have two other books and just have been busier and not feeling well, but I'm finally getting around to it! Yay me! Plus I'm ready for some new reading material and who can pass up free books?!?!

This book review is for: Blind Hope: An Unwanted Dog and the Woman She Rescued
                                     by Kim Meeder and Laurie Sacher

 This book can be purchased at many stores including online at Amazon.com

This book started out differently that I had thought it would and I was simply amazed from the beginning to the end! It is such an inspirational and motivating book about how this mangy broken down animal was made whole again by an amazing woman. Its also a story of how this amazing animal made a believer out a mangy broken down person!

This book shows how Laurie realized her relationship with God was very much like the beginning relationship she had with her dog Mia. Mia being blind and hurt had to learn to trust what she could not see and in doing this struggled and rebelled against her master. Mia found herself in many different obstacles because she couldn't trust her masters voice. She slowly began to trust Laurie and build an amazing relationship and can trust in her full heartedly now. Laurie was able to see through this relationship how she had strayed as well and needed to put her life with God back on track and allow him to lead her through life as she must do with Mia. 

Through this relationship and learning process she grew to know that God loved her even when she strayed down the wrong path.

This was such an amazing story that I would recommend to anyone and I believe dog lovers such as myself would love it even more! Its such an amazing tale of a growing relationship! 




“I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review”.