All posts tagged "Book"

Book Lovers Events: Signings, Author Meet Ups & More

From book signings to Meet & Greet’s, Galveston offers every Book Lover a lot of fun things to do. Check out...

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A Fun Tour by Kimber Fountain “Galveston’s Red Light District”

Every Wednesday-Saturday (7pm) From the author of the book comes a wonderful tour and a riveting journey through the forgotten parts of...

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Fall Into Reading

By Gini Rainey Paradox By Catherine Coulter This is one gripping, page-turning novel that brings a small town police chief and the...

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Just in Time for Hurricane Season

By Gini Rainey “Oleanders in June: A Novel” by Whitney Vandiver If you haven’t picked up and read a copy of this...

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Reading the Kids Back to School

By Gini Rainey “Mischief and Mayhem: Part I of the Faerlands Chronicles” by S. D. Nicholson I think you know me by...

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A Good Pounding!

By Gini Rainey Good grief, that’s exactly what I deserve. I have been so over-whelmed with life in the past few months...

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No Reason to Be Bored This Summer

By Gini Rainey “Four Three Two One” by Courtney Stevens Ms. Stevens has gone and done it again by creating a book...

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Sea Side Reads

By Gini Rainey “BETWEEN WIND & WATER: 1898 GALVESTON” by Rosa Morgan Set in late 19th century Galveston, Ms. Morgan successfully brings...

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Artists in the Kitchen

By Gini Rainey I have many passions in my life, mostly leaning toward my right brain, but after working for over 25...

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Blogs

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

By Gini Rainey Today’s blog entry was written by my “Guest Writer” who, every so often, sends something along to me that...

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Smörgåsbord Is Ready!

By Gini Rainey I’m always on the lookout for good cookbooks that are either regional, ethnic or odd, and my sister scored...

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Papa Loved Peppers!

By Gini Rainey I must apologize to any of my blog followers I might still have. With all of the life’s busyness...

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Reading is Fun-damental

By Gini Rainey If you are anything like me, your life is so full of busy-ness that you pretty much need to...

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Fall Is In The Air

By Gini Rainey After what seems like a very long time, the weather in our neck of the woods has finally caught...

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Fall Reading

By Gini Rainey The Waiting Room by Emily Bleeker Written by the author of When I’m Gone, this book has just as...

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Cajun Classics

By Gini Rainey When life seems to get a bit overwhelming, it’s great to know that, number one – you are missed,...

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Fall Reading At Its Best

By Gini Rainey The Day John Died by Christopher Anderson Who has not been fascinated by one of the most famous families...

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Some Things to Think About

By Gini Rainey “The Isle of Gold” by Seven Jane If you like to read adventure books that have everything from swashbuckling...

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It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over!

By Gini Rainey Well, it sort of feels like summer is over, what with school starting tomorrow here in Tyler, but some of us...

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Wasn’t That Just Yesterday?

By Gini Rainey It seems like just yesterday that my daughter Beth came home from middle school and announced that one of...

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Chill Out With A Cool Summer Read

By Gini Rainey Send Down the Rain – By Charles Martin In his thirteenth novel, this New York Times Award-winning author successfully...

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Who Says You Can’t Eat Ramen Raw?

By Gini Rainey I’ve found that inspiration sneaks into your life in lots of different ways. I must say, that (as I’m...

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This Is To Die For!

By Gini Rainey When my mother passed away on July 4th, 1977, I hadn’t been exposed to very many funerals here in...

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Spend the Summer Reading

By Gini Rainey “Bring Me Back” by B. A. Paris Just when you think an author can’t out do their last book,...

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Eat It – It’s Good For You!

By Gini Rainey Now that we are a week down the road from Mother’s Day, I would imagine things around your house...

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Mugging It Up!

By Gini Rainey We all have them – those friends that we love to entertain, but who don’t always like the same...

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Duck! Here It Comes!

By Gini Rainey For those of you who have been paying attention to the general theme of my cookbook collection, you may...

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Historically Speaking

by Gini Rainey I was thinking this morning about all the incredible advances in technology that I have seen in my lifetime,...

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What’s In a Book?

by Gini Rainey There’s a whole new world waiting for you between the covers of your next book. It’s no secret that...

I Love Google!

By Gini Rainey Sometimes (well, to be perfectly honest – a lot of times) I have dreams that seem really real, and...

The Skinny on Cooking at Home: The Cookbook Junkie

By Guest Blogger Tena Jerger filling in for Gini Rainey, the original Cookbook Junkie I was not raised in a household that...

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Book Reviews: A Time for Reminiscing

By Gini Rainey “Letters to My Grandchildren – Living an Intentional Legacy” By Sharon Stone While this is not a book that...

Aunt Jemima – She’s Not Just For Pancakes Anymore

By Gini Rainey Growing up in a small, north-western town in Minnesota wasn’t as bad as you might imagine. Sure, Moorhead has...

Ride ’em Cowboy

By Gini Rainey My dad was quite the jokester. It seems like he was either pulling off a prank or thinking up...

Super Bowl of Raspberries

By Gini Rainey I don’t know about you and yours, but today me and mine are going to a Super Bowl party...

You, Too, Can Be A Copy Cat!

By Gini Rainey Well, last week was quite interesting in Tyler, Texas! Beginning late Monday evening, our temperatures dropped below freezing while...

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I’m Back!

By Gini Rainey After taking a bit of a sabbatical over the holidays, I am back to writing my weekly blog. Because...

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New Reads for the New Year

By Gini Rainey The beginning of the new year is a great time to set reading goals for yourself if you haven’t...

Family Treasures

By Gini Rainey I think by now all of you have figured out how important family and cookbooks are to me, so...

I Didn’t Know That About That!

By Gini Rainey I always find it interesting how different people have different names for the same things. I think this is...

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New Look for An Old Friend

By Gini Rainey As a kid growing up in mid-America in the 50s, I had it all and didn’t realize it –...

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Sing For Your Supper!

By Gini Rainey I must say that one of the things that gives me great joy is being a part of a...

Falling Into Novels

By Gini Rainey “Raney: A Novel” By Clyde Edgerton With the promise on the cover that “This book is too good to...

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As I Like It!

By Gini Rainey Welcome to October. Welcome to fall! Welcome to Texas in the fall – temperatures in the 90s, sweat freely...

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I’ve Got It Covered!

By Gini Rainey Today I did something that I haven’t done in a while. I filled in as guest musician for a...

Where’s the Fire?

By Gini Rainey For those of you who might not know, I’m part owner of an independent automobile dealership that just happens...

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