Wakela Runen's World

Disclaimer: I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I did not receive any form of compensation. This book is broken up into 4 sections.  They are developing your intuition, mastering your soul’s journey, transforming your life’s relationships, and letting go.  I found each section to hold a great amount of insight into how I can create a better life for myself. This book is very much interactive.  There are exercises and processes for you to do.  As well as QR codes that you can scan with your smartphone.  I tried on both my Kindle and my computer.  I have an older Kindle so the codes didn’t always scan that well.  I think it has to do with how dark the screen is on the older Kindles.  I am sure if you have one of the newer models, they would scan fine.  The ones I scanned on my computer worked beautifully.  I am sure in a regular book, they would work just as well.  These QR codes bring you to...

Disclaimer: I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I did not receive any form of compensation. I was wasn’t alive yet to watch the series when it was first run.  I have, however, seen it many times in reruns throughout the years.  Plus I absolutely loved the remake with the ever sexy Ben Cross as Barnabas.  Even though I had not read the first two by author/actress Lara Parker, I did thoroughly enjoy this book.  I loved being able to revisit the old characters that I knew from the two versions of the TV series.  Plus she introduced a host of new characters that fit into the world of Collinswood so seamlessly.  The book carries on with the same feel that the original series had.  There are areas that are somewhat campy like the old show and other areas that are just downright eerie feeling.  Lara Parker (who originally played Angelique in the series) really knows how to describe the inhabitants of Collinswood...

Disclaimer: I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I did not receive any form of compensation. Even though this book is the first in a series, it is actually a spin off of another novel by Deborah Smith.  So unfortunately all the characters and settings were introduced in that book.  Since this was a novella, Deborah Smith did not set up the characters and settings in such a way that someone who hadn’t read the book Crossroads Café could really get to know them.  However, the story was cute.  Sometimes a little too cute.  It did feel rushed and I don’t mean just because it was a novella and the author was trying to pack a whallop of a story into such a small space.  I mean in the fact that the two main characters move in together having known each other for an extremely short amount of time.  There really wasn’t any strife between the two main characters in order to help build their relationship.  Instead, ev...

Disclaimer: I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I did not receive any form of compensation. This book led me through history as Irish American Women gained acceptance and fought for their rights.  I hadn’t known some of the roles that these women played in our history. The book takes us through the early 1900s (when my Irish great grandfather and two of his siblings came over to America) up through today.  It was truly amazing how these women dared to push the envelope with their writing. Don’t expect any amusing prose in this book.  It is a straight-forward history lesson on the role that Irish American Women Writers played.  However, if you have a real thirst for knowledge, then this book will definitely give you tons.  The Banshees: A Literary History of Irish American Women: Sally Barr Ebest: 9780815633303: Books ISBN : 0815633300 ISBN-13 : 9780815633303

Disclaimer: I received this book free from DC Entertainment in exchange for an honest review. I did not receive any form of compensation. For most of the other New 52 titles, I have really enjoyed them.  However, I have not enjoyed the Wonder Woman reboot in the least.  The graphics are brilliant.  It’s just that the story line really leaves a lot to be desired.  When I first heard that they were going to focus more on Wonder Woman’s Greek Goddess ancestry, I was excited.  I love reading the Greek mythologies.  However, this story line is just so convoluted and tiring that I (for the first time in my life) found myself bored while reading a comic book.  And considering some of the comics that I have read in the past, that is saying a lot. The story line in Vol 3 follows the same story that was introduced in 1 and 2.  Basically, Wonder Woman and a ton of other people are all searching for a baby.  Some are looking to destroy it, while othe...

Disclaimer: I received this book free from Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in exchange for an honest review. I did not receive any form of compensation. Hitch by John Russell Taylor details the life of one of the most influential filmmakers of all time, Alfred Hitchcock.  Most people have either seen an Alfred Hitchcock film or at least know about them,  However, how many people know the man behind the movies?  I know that I certainly didn’t. This book takes us from the birth of Alfred Hitchcock (not far from where my grandma was born) right up to his death in 1980.  There was so much information and I honestly didn’t realize how much more extensive his career had been. Of course, I knew of all the major movies, but I honestly didn’t know that he had started out in the film industry back in 1920 as a title designer.  Before that, he had worked in his father’s store.  This book was originally published in 1978.  It has insights provided from people who k...

Disclaimer: I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I did not receive any form of compensation. Being both a Unitarian Universalist and a pagan, I know that most common Christian religious observances come from the old time religions.  Christmas is definitely one of them.  However, I didn’t always know exactly which parts came from where.  This book brings together in one place all those old traditions that we carry on throughout today without knowing their origins.  The bulk of this book contains tales that written as they may have been told back in days of yore when we didn’t have TVs, radios, computers, or cell phones to entertain us.  They harken back to the days when families would sit around the hearth and spin yarns about how the world operated and about the gods that ruled over them. Not only do you get to learn all the great old folk lore, but there are recipes and crafts as well.  Towards the end of the book ...