![]() ![]() You've heard this from your school librarian telling you about the power of reading. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." Where you've heard it If we had our eyes shut, we'd miss the little pearls of wisdom, like "The more that you read, the more things you will know. He may be able to read with his eyes shut, but we have to keep ours open to make sense of all these rhyming words. Seuss's rhymes.)Īnyway, this little poem is from the book I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!, which has the Cat in the Hat on the cover, reading with (you guessed it) his eyes shut. He can read in red, he can read in blue, he can read in pickle color, too! (Not bad right? Though, we confess, maybe not as good as Dr. ![]() This line is from the book I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!, written by Dr. ![]() Seuss Wisdom Inspirational Happy Truth Intelligence Motivational Literature Context ![]()
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![]() Macomber is a brilliant writer and wonderfully depicts the locale and the Inn with enough detail to feel like you’re right there with the characters. In Rose Harbor in Bloom, we return to Cedar Cove, specifically Rose Harbor Inn, the bed and breakfast Jo Marie purchased, where we meet a series of guests, each with a story to tell and a journey to embark on.įrom the moment I picked up this book, I found myself immersed within the town of Cedar Cove. The young widow purchases a local bed-and-breakfast as a way to cope with the death of her husband while her guests work through their own life challenges. ![]() ![]() Her latest book is the sequel to The Inn at Rose Harbor which was set in the Pacific Northwest town of Cedar Cove and follows the story of Jo Marie Rose. Macomber has authored over 150 books and primarily writes in the genre of romance novels and contemporary women’s fiction. My fervor for reading has never waned and when Walmart offered me an opportunity to preview an advanced copy of New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber’s latest book Rose Harbor in Bloom, I decided that this would be my delve back into reading. ![]() Recreational reading became difficult when I began working on my Master’s Degree and shortly after, marriage and children took over my time. I have always had an incredible passion for reading, specifically books in the category of romance, suspense, contemporary literature, and fiction, and routinely found myself reading series of books by the same author. As a young girl, it was rare to find me without a book in hand. ![]() ![]() The first half of the book takes us through the lives of the two men up to 1939, showing how both men had a strong sense of destiny and mission-indeed both put out a sort of mission statement (Churchill in his 1900 novel Savrola Hitler in his Mein Kampf). ![]() Roberts, the author of the prize-winning Salisbury: Victorian Titan and, more recently, the highly acclaimed Napoleon and Wellington, sets out to identify the ingredients of successful leadership in peacetime and wartime. To what extent did the outcome of the Second World War turn on the two very different personalities who led the two major combatant nations? This intriguing question is the subject of Andrew Roberts' Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership, published to tie in with the television series of the same name. ![]() |