Review: Forever Fat Loss by Ari Whitten

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Title: Forever Fat Loss Author: Ari Whitten Category: Weight Loss Published: May 9, 2014 by Archangel Ink Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Amazon Escape the Dieting Trap and Transform Your Life Have you been spinning your wheels, trying diet after diet, only to lose and regain the same 10, 20, or 30 pounds over and over again? Author Ari Whitten’s here to tell you that it’s not your fault! The common weight loss strategy of “burn more calories than you take in” will fail 95% of you in the long term, simply because this goes against your body’s natural wisdom. So it’s time to stop fighting against your biology and start working with your biology. Forever Fat Loss will show you how. Eat What You Crave and Get Leaner By the Day Sick of suffering through diets where you need to restrict fat, carbs, or calories? There is a better way. Satisfy your cravings for sweet, salty, and fatty foods, and still reach your fat loss goals effortlessly....
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Thursday’s Tale: Maleficent (2014)

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Title: Maleficent Director: Robert Stromberg Writer: Linda Woolverton In theaters: May 30, 2014 from Walt Disney Pictures Genre: Fantasy Rating: PG Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Maleficent explores the untold story of Disney's most iconic villain from the classic Sleeping Beauty and the elements of her betrayal that ultimately turn her pure heart to stone. Driven by revenge and a fierce desire to protect the moors over which she presides, Maleficent cruelly places an irrevocable curse upon the human king's newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Aurora is caught in the middle of the seething conflict between the forest kingdom she has grown to love and the human kingdom that holds her legacy. Maleficent realizes that Aurora may hold the key to peace in the land and is forced to take drastic actions that will change both worlds forever. I'm a fairy tale lover and while Maleficent is a re-make of Disney's own re-make of Sleeping Beauty, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a gorgeous movie, from...
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Top Ten Things I Like / Don’t Like on Book Covers

by Carol8 Comments
Today's Top Ten Tuesday is about book covers - what we like, what we don't. Honestly, since I've moved to mostly e-books and audios, I don't tend to notice covers as much. I think, too, I usually know what books I want to read, I don't browse coves in a bookstore/library like I used to.  But. here are some things I like in book covers and some I don't. I don't like seeing half of people's heads. I don't like it when a cover looks summery, or wintery, and the book just isn't. Like the book that has the main character in a floaty summer dress when most of the story takes place in a snow storm. I don't like when the cover just has the title and author in an interesting typeface. I want pictures of some kind. I don't like those almost cartoony cozy mystery covers. I know they match the cutesy titles, but I'm not a fan. I don't...
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Saturday Snapshot

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Yes, I know it's Monday, but I took these photos on Saturday, so that counts, right? Saturday evening we went to the DCI (Drum Corps International) show in Akron and had a blast. David was in the Bluecoats when he was younger, but we haven't been to a show for ages. Now that Amber's starting marching band this year, we thought it would be a good time to take her and one of her friends. The bands are just amazing, both musically and their marching. Saturday Snapshot is hosted by Melinda at West Metro Mommy Reads....
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Audiobook Review: Jack of Spies by David Downing

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Title: Jack of Spies Author: David Downing Read by: Gildart Jackson Category: Spy Fiction Audio published: May 13, 2014 by Blackstone Audiobooks Rating: 2½ out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York he moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty s Navy, but British espionage is in its infancy and Jack has nothing but a shoestring budget and the very tenuous protection of a boss in faraway London. He knows, though, that a geopolitical catastrophe is brewing, and now is both the moment to prove himself and the moment his country needs him most. Unfortunately, this is also the...
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Thursday’s Tale: Kate Crackernuts

by Carol4 Comments
I admit it, I picked today's story based on the title. "Kate Crackernuts" just made me smile. It's a story from Scotland collected by Andrew Lang in the Orkney Islands and published in Longman's Magazine in 1889. Joseph Jacobs edited and republished the tale in his English Fairy Tales (1890). A king had a daughter named Anne, and his queen had a daughter named Kate, who was less beautiful. The queen was jealous of Anne, but Kate loved her. I'm sure no one's surprised that the queen is turns out to be an evil step-mother, this is a fairy tale. The queen consulted with a henwife to ruin Anne's beauty, and after three tries, they enchanted Anne's head into a sheep's head. Kate wrapped Anne's head in a cloth, and they went out to seek their fortunes. The sisters are surprisingly close in this story. Siblings in fairy tales don't usually stick together quite like that. And it's usually the boys...
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