Books

Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Joel Osteen

I am really loving this book. I'm only halfway through and it has helped me tremendously. I've read a lot of self-help and positive thinking books. I don't remember the others so clearly outlining the power that God can have in our lives.

Appendix to the I Hate to Cook Book
Peg Bracken

Peg Bracken is one of my favorite 'Merry Wives' authors, along with Jean Kerr. Other Merry Wives are Erma Bombeck and Teresa Bloomingdale

Very few things can compare with reading a thoroughly enjoyable book and then finding that the author has written a bunch more books. Biblio bliss! I've listed my favorites below, in roughly the order in which I discovered them, beginning from my earliest memory:

Santa Claus book (I think illustrated by Norman Rockwell; I don't remember the exact title, just my small-child Christmas time enchantment with it,
Ideal Magazine (it counts because it's a very booklike magazine!)
Little Bear books
Childcraft books
Little House in the Big Woods
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Little House on the Prairie
All the Little House books (my standard for a good read and good illustrations for many years)
Nancy Drew
The Bobbsey Twins books
The Railway Children
Francis books
Brief Flower
Irma Bombeck's books
Papa's Wife
Papa's Daughter
Mrs. Mike
Gone with the Wind
Jane Austen's books
Dave Barry's books
Bode Thoene (Vienna Prelude, etc.)

More to come as I remember and as time permits....