Bob Greene

The Best Life Diet Cookbook: More than 175 Delicious, Convenient, Family-Friendly Recipes
$25.00
I enjoyed this book. My sister in law couldn't get past the sassy water. Good recipes. Bought book for my daughter,also, who found the food required for making recipes too expensive.

To Our Children's Children: Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come
$18.95
Using this book as a guide, I'm creating a journal for my children by interviewing their 84 year old great grandmother(who has a great memory and has survived WWII), all four of their grandparents, myself and my husband. This is the kind of project everyone aspires to do but never does then regrets not doing so when it's too late. I've had so much fun learning so many interesting things about my family members. My husband and I have been married almost 10 years and I've learned so many new things about him from these questions. We have fun going down memory lane and sharing our childhood memories together.

I plan on giving some of these journals to my nieces and nephews when they are older so they can read them and take comfort in these memories when their family members are gone. My children have spent brief times with their great grandmother but with this information that i've accumulated, they will have a more intimate knowledge of the extraordinary life she's lived and learn from it.

This project takes a lot of time but i'm having so much fun learning new things, it doesn't feel like work.

The Best Life Diet Revised and Updated
$15.00
Many of the recipes in this book require unusual ingredients you would not normally have in your pantry. Plus if you run to the store to get them, their addition to the recipe is questionable, like unsweetened cocoa in chicken breasts with pumpkin seeds. Granted for many people this may sound appealing, but for my husband and I, most of the recipes in this book were way "out there." I wanted to try a fish recipe but the sounds of "Cod with Broiled Grapefruit and Avocado Butter" was tough to think about as was the "Rockfish with Clementines."
I finally decided on a dessert, since we were having company that loved chocolate but they were on a diet. How could "Chocolate Cake" be anything but fabulous? Well, these individual chocolate cakes were a tasteless disappointment.
Even the pictures in the book are not jumping out at you with appeal. I love to cook and I am forever watching my weight, but this book is a dust collector.

Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen
$13.99
Author of "Once Upon Yesterday". This book is about American during World War II, a time when married men quit their jobs to join the military service, sixteen year old boys lied about their ages so they could enlist to serve their country, and most of the servicemen were kids who had freshly graduated from high school, they were lonely and scared, optimistic and brave. This book is about the volunteers at the canteen of North Platte, a small town in Nebraska, who were women of all ages and from all walks of life, including farmer's wives, from Nebraska and Colorado in the vicinities of North Platte, and with their husbands, sons, brothers went to war, they were lonely and scared, optimistic and brave. As the servicemen pass through North Platte by the thousands daily in troop trains, on their way either to the east coast, then to Europe, or to west coast, then to the Pacific, they were met by the women at the canteen at the railroad station in downtown North Platte, without fail, day and night, rain or shine, during the four years of war, with home made sandwiches and cakes, hard boiled eggs, coffee, candies, cigarettes, chewing gums, magazines, all aplenty and all free of charge, to show them, with a smile, that their country cared about them and was grateful to them for what they were doing for the country. The volunteers used their scarce food ration to make food for the servicemen, and the canteen was supported by generous donations in the form of money, food, and supplies from the people and business in the vicinities. As the book jumped back and forth from the wartime to the present, it could easily get confusing, but in the hand of a talented and experienced writer, it served as the bridge between now and then. The author said he wanted to write the book when many of the women who had volunteered at the canteen and many of the servicemen who had been there were still alive, so that he could interview them, and the events were told just the way it had happened, without exaggeration or distortion. The book gave me a glance of America during World War II, as I came to America only years later.