Julie

I blog at:

*** http://butomysoul.wordpress.com/ ***
*** http://gentletraveler.blogspot.com/ ***

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
~ Anna Quindlen

This is a photo of my son "reading" 'The Failure... more »

I blog at:

*** http://butomysoul.wordpress.com/ ***
*** http://gentletraveler.blogspot.com/ ***

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
~ Anna Quindlen

This is a photo of my son "reading" 'The Failure of the New Economics' by Henry Hazlitt... he's lying in my bed, wearing my glasses, using my reading light. And, he was too cute not to photograph!

I am a SAHM. I use the skills I learned as a manager in a Critical Care Unit and an instructor in an Associates Degree Nursing Program to create an environment of transformational love for my husband and three children. I home educate my oldest child. She was prenatally affected by alcohol and the schools in our area could not or would not accommodate her brain differences. I plan on home schooling my two youngest children too. Right now they are just 3 and 5. Our family loves living off the public school schedule that assumes learning only occurs from 7 to 3 Monday through Friday from September through June. Our family is multi-cultaral and multi-racial.

I found the operational definitions on this site, the ones I see when I hover over the stars, imprecise and unusable. Here is how I have defined the stars and how I rate books.

1 star ~ Printing this book wasted perfectly good trees. Purchasing the book wasted my hard earned money. And, reading this book wasted precious time with my family and friends. Why would anyone publish such drivel? Someone else might be able to find something redeeming about this book, but it was not my cup of tea.

2 stars ~ After shifting through the chafe, I found nuggets of gold, real wisdom. However, the book is unnecessarily wordy or presents ideas which are poorly argued. A book that could have been great but, in my opinion is poorly written.

3 stars ~ A book I would recommend you bring to read while you lie in the sun, wait for your car to be repaired, recover from surgery or escape from the stressors of your real life. It is entirely delightful but not life changing, brain candy really.

4 stars ~ The epitome of excellence. Far from brain candy, there is something about the story that is scholarly, revolutionary or captivating that draws the reader into the pages and makes the book difficult to put down.

5 stars ~ I am glad I didn’t die without reading this book. « less