By J. Timothy King on November 30, 2010
I actually read Julie Carobini’s debut novel Chocolate Beach some time ago. But I’m doing a teaser on it today, because I’ve got a beautiful, brand new, autographed copy of it, which I will be giving away in a post that’s going up tomorrow. Chocolate Beach is what Julie calls “beach-lit,” or what I had […]
Posted in Books, Teaser Tuesdays | Tagged Chocolate Beach, Julie Carobini |
By J. Timothy King on November 17, 2010
Some time ago, I was on the receiving end of a massive screw-up at one of my previously favorite restaurants and WiFi hotspots, Panera Bread in Chelmsford, MA. I have not been back. Ironically, the screw-up itself hasn’t kept me away, because we all screw up sometimes, because we’re all only human. I can’t hold […]
Posted in Customer Relations, Professionalism | Tagged Panera Bread |
By J. Timothy King on November 16, 2010
You may remember, I absolutely adored Talyn the first novel in this series. I have to admit that it was hard to pick up the sequel Hawkspar, because I had become so attached to Talyn and her cohorts. But Holly wasted no time hooking me on Hawkspar’s plight. This is the story of a slave, […]
Posted in Books, Teaser Tuesdays | Tagged Hawkspar, Holly Lisle |
By J. Timothy King on November 15, 2010
Two of our friends from synagogue are among the 80 or so “pipeline” families, all of whom had been in the process of adopting orphans from Nepal, when the US government changed policy and left them in limbo, forbidding them to come back home with their newly adopted children. As the friend of one such […]
Posted in Politics | Tagged adoption, Nepal, pipeline families, prayer |
By J. Timothy King on November 9, 2010
Every time I drove down Route 3A through Burlington, MA, I’d see a huge storefront with the words “Used Book Superstore” posted over it. I always wanted to peek inside. I mean, a used book superstore? Who ever heard of such a thing? There are large book retailers, like Barnes & Noble. There are smaller, […]
Posted in Books, Teaser Tuesdays | Tagged Dilbert, Robert Sapolsky, Scott Adams, stress, The Joy of Work, Used Book Superstore |