Book Review: Give Save Spend with the Three Little Pigs

Katie March 4, 2014 0 Comments

Give, Save, Spend with the Three Little Pigs is kind of a sequel to the story of the Three Little Pigs.  After they had their houses damaged and all moved into the brick house, the big bad wolf continued to blow down everyone of the other animals houses.  They realized that the brick houses were the safest and so they hired the pigs to make them a home.  The 3 pigs realized that they had money but weren’t sure what to do with it.  One thought that they should spend it on fun things! The other thought that they should use it to help some of the other animals who need help and the last one thought they should save it so that they had it incase of an emergency.  Now whenever the pigs get money, they split it amongst their 3 banks!

I think that this book is a great idea to teach kids how to save.  Fun things only last for so long, helping people can last a lifetime and you never know when an emergency may come up that you’ll need money for.  Keeping 3 separate banks makes it easy to decide how much you can donate, spend on fun or have “just incase”

I received a free e-copy of this book to write this review, I was nother otherwise compensated.

About the Book

The Big Bad Wolf is back, and he’s blowing down houses in the forest, one by one. The Three Little Pigs hatch a plan to help other animals weather the wolf’s mighty lungs. They start a building company, offering strong homes built of brick, just like theirs.

Demand is high for the brick homes the Pigs build, and their business becomes a success. Now they need to figure out what they should do with their hard-earned profits.

One little Pig wants to spend away, another wants to give it away, and the third wants to save it. Based on the give-save-spend-concept, this sequel to the classic fairy tale teaches kids a safe and practical approach to managing money.

Schools don’t teach basic finance, and most books about money are too confusing for younger children. An entertaining first step in any child’s education, Give, Save, Spend with the Three Little Pigs is easy to read and understand.

Book Review: Dangerous Past

Katie March 3, 2014 4 Comments

Dangerous Past is about pilot Frank Braden.  The book starts with him flying a flight and the bottom of the plane flying off and him having to make an emergency landing while the plane is also on fire.  He successfully lands the plane and when he gets home his wife informs him that their dog has seemed to run away.  When the FBI begins investigating the incident, they discover that there was a bomb in with the luggage – inside a taxidermy dog in a crate with Frank’s name on it.  This is when Frank realizes that he is being set up, but he isn’t sure by whom.

Several other attempts on Frank’s life are made and at first his wife Nicole isn’t sure if she believes him but eventually he tells her all about his time in Vietnam and she knows he is telling the truth and wants to try and help him.

There is a person from Frank’s past who knows Frank well and knows that if Frank is alive, he will try and bring this person down and is trying to set him up to look like he is suicidal and a bit crazy just to save their own ass.

This book was short, but a real page turner. I couldn’t put the book down, I had to know if Frank would be able to stop whoever was after him or if they would end Frank’s life first. A lot of suspense and quite a thriller. (And I am glad that I waited to read it until AFTER my vacation flight!)

The book has a few flashbacks to Frank’s time in Vietnam – which I think worked a lot better than him just reciting the story to those who were listening. The flashbacks brought you back to that time in his life better than him just recapping what happened in a conversation.

If you like suspenseful thrillers, dangerous past is the book for you!

I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review and participate in the blog tour. I was not otherwise compensated.

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Book Review: Sitcom

Katie March 2, 2014 1 Comments

This book puts together 24 Sitcom episodes in order to create the history of the sitcom. Shows in included The Honeymooners, Leave it the Beaver, Cheers, Roseanne, etc. Sitcoms were there to have the people laugh, especially when times outside of the living room may have been tough.

The book is in chronological order based on when the sitcoms premiered and focuses on one episode but tells a bit more about the impact that the show had on its time. It’s kind of interesting to see the evolution of the sitcom this way.

I found it incredibly interesting and not just because I watch far more TV than I probably should. (Although only 1 of the 24 shows did I actually see every episode of. I’ll leave it up to you to figure out which one!)

I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review. I was not otherwise compensated.

About the Book

A carefully curated tour through TV comedy series, this mixtape of fondly remembered shows surveys the genealogy of the form, the larger trends in its history, the best of what the genre has accomplished, and the most standard of its works. From I LoveLucy, The Phil Silvers Show, and M*A*S*H to Taxi, The Larry Sanders Show, and 30 Rock, this guide presents the sitcom as a capsule version of the 20th-century arts—realism giving way to modernism and then to postmodernism, all between the hours of 8 and 10pm on weeknights. Each chapter springs from an individual representative entity, including The Simpsons’ “22 Short Films About Springfield,” The Mary Tyler Moore Show’s “Chuckles Bites the Dust,” Seinfeld’s “The Pitch,” and Freaks and Geeks’ “Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers,” where Martin Starr’s nerdy Bill takes comfort in—what else—the pleasures of laughing at TV.