The Phantom Paragrapher

I needed a picture to symbolise those books that don't really fit into a category and I found on Google Images this adorable Bear and Bookworm reading , Isn't it cute ? Today's book is for all those budding pyschologists out there.... Review: Tigger on the Couch - Laura James - Oct 2008 Are you hoping to become a pyschologist or have an interest in the subject ? Are you a fan of the Walt Disney Characters and all those fun childhood characters we have grown up with from The Hundred Acre wood by A.A Milne to Peter Pan by JM Barrie and Alice in Wonderland by CS Lewis . Tigger on the couch gathers all your favourite childhood characters and analyses them and labels them with a mental illness , disorder of sorts from Tigger who can't stop boucing therefore he must suffer from ADHD to Pollyanna who is always so positive - what else can it be but a case of Denial and then we have Cinderella - always trying to gain approval from others which indicates an addiction to ap...

Following the theme of Prayer , we have Charles Stanley's book for the Young Adults to Adults and for the preschool to school aged children we have Dan and Ali Morrow's book "That's When I Talk to God". Review: That's When I Talk to God - Dan and Ali Morrow , Illustrated - Cory Godbey - April 2011 To follow the theme of prayer which as I said in the review below, is something that I am not that confident in doing , I thought that I would review That's When I talk to God by Dan and Ali Morrow. As a child, I was briefly taught how to pray by my mum and dad and touched briefly in Sunday School sessions , but I think that it is an important skill to teach our children - the next generation . That's When I talk to God is a picture book that teaches children that praying can be even for the simple things like thanking God for the marvellous weather we are having or if you have made a new friend, thank god for giving me a new friend (insert name) to pl...

Are you interested in learning more about the power of prayer ? Review: Handle With Prayer - Charles Stanley - March 2011 Are you wanting to get deeper into the word of prayer and learn to unwrap God's strength and power by praying. As I was searching for a picture of the cover , I noticed that in February 1992 when I was five years old , Charles Stanley wrote a book called Handle With Prayer - reading this one and the blurb of the previous , I figured that this new edition must be an updated and more up with the play as the one written those many moons ago. For me, personally I find Prayer quite a challenge as I can pray for myself silently for protection , pray to keep others safe and those other everyday prayers like "Dear Lord, please find us a carpark" when you enter the shopping mall and its so busy. However, Prayer is actually something much deeper than that , it is something that Jesus used and there have been other accounts by everyday people to make mirac...

Interview With the Author : Becky Wicks Tell us about your book Burqalicious? Well, it’s about my time living in Dubai, which was a bit mental really! I went from being a regular 20-something in London to living a life that was equal parts luxury and absolute insanity. It’s about the jobs I had, the love affair I found myself involved in, and just the madness that ensued from living in an up-and-coming city that was literally being built around me! You talked about how your friend wanted to go overseas and you talked her out of it, what changed your mind? I was just getting a bit bored of London at the time I think. I’d been in my job for over two years and wanted to do something different. One day I thought “Dubai!” I’m still not sure why, but a month later I was there. What was the inspiration behind wanting to tell the world about your travels? I started a blog but it was shut down, so I started writing Facebook notes about my time in Dubai and all the mad things that were h...

Today's Virtual Book Tour is author Josi . S. Kilpack and her new book in the Culinary Mystery series "Blackberry Crumble". The  Tour is part of Pump Up Your Books VBT's. About the Author : Josi . S. Kilpack Josi has combined her love of MOST things edible and her love of writing into the Sadie Hoffmiller Culinary Mystery series. Blackberry Crumble is the fifth book in what will be an eight book series. When Josi isn’t cooking or writing she’s trying to say ahead of her four children, hiding somewhere with a book in hand, or enjoying her backyard chickens. Josi and her family live in Willard, UT. For more information about Josi, you can visit her website at www.josiskilpack.com  or her blog at www.josikilpack.blogspot.com Review: Blackberry Crumble - Culinary Mysteries Book #5 - Josi S. Kilpack - March 2011 Have you read Charlaine Harris's series "The Aurora Teagarden Mysteries" ? The one about the 4ft 11 librarian who goes and solves m...

Wanting a new supernatural modern day read with a hint of time travel and history slathered with the romantic language of the italians ? Review: The Hourglass Door - The Hourglass Door Trilogy Book #1 - Lisa Mangum - May 2010 When I first started reading this book , I was in two minds and thought , not another fallen angel/ vampire novel as thats not what I was in the mood for -though in saying that , it's not that I don't enjoy reading them but sometimes you just have to be in the mood. The Hourglass Door turned out to be an amazing read and I definitely was hooked to finish it to the very last page and it was also one of those novels that even in the last few chapters , you didn't actually know how the novel was going to turn out and then there were bits and pieces , that the author could have played on and turned it a whole different direction.  The Hourglass Door features the life of Abigail Beatrice Edmund aka Abby or as some of her ...

Wanting a nice light-hearted teenage christian fiction read , one that for a change is not too heavy on your mind as we have been experiencing lately with the rise of Edgy Christian Fiction ? Review: The Spring of Candy Apples - Sweet Seasons #4 - Debbie Vigue -Jan 2009 As it seems more often than not, I tend to occur a habit of reading series out of order due to the way that my library purchases them, as today's book is a series that I read a review about years ago and it looked like something great and back then , the library did not purchase the series but today in new books, what do I see but Book #4 in the series, so of course without any hesistation I took the book and went straight to reading it. The story focuses on the main character Candace aka Candy who has just found out that she has been nominated and is in in the top 5 running for a scholarship at Florida Coast College. However this Spring is about to become a time of new beginnings for Candace as she experiences...