Lives Behind the Badge ~ Kristi Neave

If you are the wife or girlfriend of a police officer check this out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvuvGaEagHU

Working Around the Less Desirable

It's kind of like being a sports fan.
A true sports fan.
Just because your team is playing like trash you don't start booing them.
You press on through the hard times, through the strikeouts and losing streaks.
I am only page....170 maybe of The Vampire Diaries~The Return: Shadow Souls and there have been so many times I have just wanted to throw it down and abandon it. But if you pick around the gunk and know Ms. Smith's work well enough you can appreciate the few gems still shining in there.
This book has just been stupid so far.
Stupid.
The characters don't sound like themselves and again, it's so dumbed down I can hardly stand it. And there is just way too much going on. It's gotten so far out there, it can't come back.
If they're pushing her to write these, they need to stop.
It's making her look

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

The Crime Writer's Association Debut Dagger Award-winner, Alan Bradley, has written a sweet little novel about eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce. In The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, the fiery heroine tromps around the English countryside on a quest to solve a murder. Miss De Luce gives me plenty of reason to chuck our tellies out in the shed and demand that our boys begin using their imaginations and intelligence again. While reading this quick little tale I wished to be beside Flavia, walking through the fields and the small English towns, running into all the quirky characters she met along the way. This is a novel rich with just enough description to make it real and enthralling. I cannot wait to settle in with the next tale of Flavia de Luce's adventures. It was a wonderfully pleasant way to spend a day: curled up in the recliner with a nice fleece throw, cups of hot cocoa, and a fun mystery while the snow piled high outside the windows.