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Book Reviews

Book Review: "Just Tell Me I'm Pretty"

Book Review: “Just Tell Me I’m Pretty”

2018-09-10
By: Live by Surprise
On: September 10, 2018
In: Book Reviews, Inspiration
With: 0 Comments

Have you ever read a book that felt like a long catch-up chat with an old friend? You know the one where you drink a little tea, and later some wine…there’s a lot of laughter…and a few tears…and sometimes both at the very same time. On my summer reading listContinue Reading

NYT Bestselling Author Andra Watkins

NYT Bestselling Author Andra Watkins

2017-01-13
By: Live by Surprise
On: January 13, 2017
In: Book Reviews, Inspiration
With: 6 Comments

One of the perks of this blog is that I’ve been virtually introduced to some pretty amazing writers. But I’ve gotta say…today I’m pretty tickled. In November, I finished the book To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis by New York Times Bestselling Author Andra Watkins. The book is anContinue Reading

Order of Seven - Interview with Author Beth Teliho

Have I Told You About Baron?

2016-11-29
By: Live by Surprise
On: November 29, 2016
In: #NaBloPoMo, #NaNoPoblano, Book Reviews, Inspiration, Other
With: 5 Comments

Yeah…I did. I did an interview with author Beth Teliho. We talked about her amazing book. AND she’s got a short story coming out in an anthology soon and I may have been a BETA reader.  OK, I was a BETA reader. And it was awesome. But I’ll tell youContinue Reading

#NaBloPoMo: Facing Surgery? Read This!

Facing Surgery? Read This!

2016-11-27
By: Live by Surprise
On: November 27, 2016
In: #NaBloPoMo, #NaNoPoblano, Book Reviews, Car Accident, Inspiration, Life, Other
With: 11 Comments

I bonded with writer Christine Carter from The Mom Café because we were both incapacitated by leg injury for a number of months. I was super excited to hear that she was writing a book to help others out with their recovery not only from similar injury, but from injury orContinue Reading

I'm Lucky: My Friends are Inspirational Women Authors

I’m Lucky: My Friends are Inspirational Women Authors

2016-07-07
By: Live by Surprise
On: July 7, 2016
In: Blogging, Book Reviews, Inspiration
With: 28 Comments

I bought a new notebook today. I’m usually very comfortable typing when I write, but I got a nostalgic yearning to put pen to paper. I don’t know if it’s just a summer mood – but I really needed to feel the nib of my pen digging into a virginContinue Reading

Order of Seven - Interview with Author Beth Teliho

Order of Seven – Interview with Author Beth Teliho

2016-01-29
By: Live by Surprise
On: January 29, 2016
In: Blog Reviews, Blogging, Book Reviews
With: 56 Comments

In the course of my blogging, I have been introduced (virtually) to a cadre of incredibly intelligent and talented women who have shared their talents with the world – either by writing blogs – and some of them, even books.  I try not to fangirl (too much) with these womenContinue Reading

Negative Correlation Theory of Parenthood

Negative Correlation Theory of Parenthood

2016-01-04
By: Live by Surprise
On: January 4, 2016
In: Blogging, Book Reviews
With: 12 Comments

I usually don’t spout scientific theory…but I was recently asked to do a review of “The Science of Parenthood” by Jessica Ziegler and Norine Dworkin-McDaniel, and as a result, have come up with my own theory of parenthood.  I am qualified to espouse this theory – because a) I haveContinue Reading

Airing my Dirty Laundry #LoseTheCape

2015-05-25
By: Live by Surprise
On: May 25, 2015
In: Book Reviews
With: 1 Comment

I have a system for doing laundry. Okay…maybe it’s not so much a system…there’s really not much system to it – it’s just my reality – but nonetheless it’s working for me. And today I’m going to share it with you. For free. First – I should point out thatContinue Reading

Book Review – Three-Year Olds are A**holes

2015-04-13
By: Live by Surprise
On: April 13, 2015
In: Book Reviews
With: 0 Comments

Don’t look for Pinterest type marshmallow fluff on Sarah Fader’s blog Old School Mom/New School Mom.  She tells it like it is.  Which is why her HuffPost Article – Three-Year Olds are A**holes went viral with (as of today) almost 60K shares on Facebook.  It’s a highly relatable piece toContinue Reading

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    Normal Coparenting…vs Me
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    Fight or Flight: Embracing my Gray Hair
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Lola's books

Doctor Who: The Forgotten
Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who: Assimilation2, Volume 2
Doctor Who Classics, Vol. 1
Doctor Who: The Eyeless
Chronic Profit: Building Your Small Business While Managing Persistent Pain
Doctor Who: The Slitheen Excursion
The Other Emily
Tracing Your Ancestors in Lunatic Asylums: A Guide for Family Historians
Memories of Tomorrow
The Mercy of Snakes
Red Rain
The Praying Mantis Bride
Photographing the Dead
In the Heart of the Fire
The Painted Girls
The Other Typist
The Woman Who Stole My Life
Great Shape Hunt, The
Zoe's First Book of Seasons
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero's Journey Issue #0


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