I received this book for my birthday and that's how I spent my day. I read the entire book! It was fun - I laughed (out loud), I cried. What more could you ask from a book?
I received this book for Valentine's Day and I just finished reading it. That's okay my husband knows what I like. This book tells about one man's slow change into a farmer. He owns a restaurant in Seattle and he buys a "farm" on an island a ferry boat ride away. Basically, a move from the city to the country and become a farmer type of book. I like this kind of book and have read quite a few. Of course, because that's what I want to do in the near future. What makes this book different is the time period. By the time you get to the end of the book, he has owned the farm for about 15 years, I think. Usually books like this seem to cover just a year or two. The other thing that… Read more
I purchased this grammar textbook and the workbook for my seven year old who is just starting grade three work. I have been pretty slack with grammar up until now so I though it might be a bit difficult. Some things that the child should know by now are skimmed over but it doesn't assume that the child knows a lot about grammar. It looks very thorough with sentence diagramming, memorization, and of course the expected grammar rules and definitions. I hate to admit it but I'm learning things as well. One more thing that I absolutely love is the paper, it's so thick, which is so nice for kids to write (and erase) on and the pages are perforated as well. I hate to gush, but I actually… Read more
