Recipes For Easy Living (ISBN 1551667533)

Give this as a santa gift:
This is a perfect book to read to get into the holiday spirit. I plan to give this to my sister as a pre-Christmas gift to help her remember all those steps to get ready for the big day! Matlock helped me be glad I do all those holiday chores every year.

Recipes For Easy Living:
This is one of the best books I have ever read...funny, moving, great characters...I just loved it! Corrine lives in Valentine, Oklahome, with her Aunt, her Aunt's new husband, and her cousin, a sweet and different little boy who lives in his own world. She is about to celebrate her 13th birthday and wants pierced ears and for Ricky Dale to give her her first kiss. At the same time, in New Orleans, her mother feels remorseful about giving her up while she tried to sort out her own chaotic life and decides to come to Valentine during Christmas to try to fix things up. As the characters interact and grow through experiences they share, they start to understand each other and become better people for it. The view is written through almmost-13-year old Corrine's eyes and her take on life is so refreshing and so very 13! This is a WONDERFUL book and I was thrilled to see she has written others set in Valentine, Oklahome...I bought every one and anticipate several great reads!!

Recipes For Easy Living:
Ms.Matlock writes great books on everday life set in a small town in Valentine OK. Its where lots of wisdom, common sense, majic and love occur. I eagerly await each new book!

Magical!:
I love Christmas, so this book was a HUGE hit for me! Great writing and for the time span it is supposed to be set at, it is full of day to day details. A girl, Corrine, lives with her aunt and uncle. Everything is going great, then her mom says she is coming to visit for Christmas. Corrine wonders what will be in store for her after. Will she have to leave her life in Valentine and go live with her mom? Is there really a Santa Claus? Miracles happen in this book and you won't want to put it down! Enjoy!

Didn't Get Me to Care! AND Slow, Slow, Slow!:
The reason I could only give this book one star is that I just couldn't get through it. I got to the middle, just to give a fair shot but it was so slow and boring and pointless. I got the book my chick lit book club because it had four good reviews on amazon, and looked cute. My book club all had the same issue...where were the funny parts???? Even the girls who finished it said this was not chick lit...it was granny lit. It IS a quaint story, and an easy read for little old ladies who don't like language or sex but it just isn't for anyone under sixty. In addition to the slowness most of the story (through the middle of the book) is told from the point of the young child in the book and makes you feel like your are reading an old fashioned children's book. It had no depth and didn't make me care about the characters at all.