Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, Book Reviews, tagged Art Bead Scene. book review, prayer beads on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
While I was away in Los Angeles, I received an email from Heather Powers, the highly creative brain behind the Art Bead Scene blog and creator of some gorgeous, lust-worthy beads. She let me know that she had posted a review of Bead One, Pray Too on her site and I am so pleased! It [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Uncategorized, tagged Book Expo on May 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Thursday Morning, Oakland International Airport
For the next few days – Thursday through Sunday – I will be attending Book Expo in Los Angeles, Calif. I am going with Publishers Weekly, for whom I frequently write, and will try and pick up and write several stories for them from the floor show.
But I will also be [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged book review on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I recently had to write a short piece for Publishers Weekly on a new book called Excuse Me, Your Soul Mate is Waiting by first-time author Marla Martenson. Martenson is a Los Angeles-based matchmaker, and the book is about how the power of positive thinking can attract the right mate.
The book isn’t about religion - [...]
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, Book Reviews, tagged book review, Katie Hacker on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Beader-extraordinaire Katie Hacker was gracious enough to write a very positive review about Bead One, Pray Too on her excellent blog. Take a look. I am very flattered - she is a beading superstar. I am over the moon about this. Will have champagne tonight!
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged customer review on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I don’t know Sarah “mawkinberd” of Ruston, La, but if any of you do, please give her a big kiss for me! Here’s her review.
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged book review on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Holy Moley!!!! LBRLucas of San Diego gave Bead One, Pray Too a five-star review on amazon.com, in the book’s first amazon customer review. I am just overwhelmed at her reaction to the book. Thank you so much Louise!!!
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged " mala, "Eat Pray Love", Elizabeth Gilbert, prayer on January 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Maybe I should start a blog called “Behind the Curve” because I am always the last one to read the book everyone else is reading. Partly this is because I have to do a lot of work-related reading (latest requirement: Jim Wallis’s “Great Awakening”) and partly because I am a terrible book snob. I mean, [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged " St. Augustine, depression on January 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last night, as I was lying in bed reading my book club’s current selection, “What is the What” by Dave Eggers, I came across this passage:
“I have been reading Mother Teresa and Brother Roger’s book called Seeking the Heart of God, and each time I revisit it, I find different passages that seem written for [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Anglican rosary, book review, Catholic rosary, Pearls of Life, prayer beads on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Praying With Beads: Daily Prayers for the Christian Year
By Nan Lewis Doerr and Virginia Stem Owens
Eerdmans Publishing, 2007
81 pages,
This slim book is like a prayer bead breviary – a short, concise guide to praying with the Anglican rosary on a daily basis. The book concerns itself solely with the Anglican rosary, with the bulk of [...]
