"Porn for Women" - Cambridge Women's Pornography Cooperative

It's a humor book! Please, I don't do porn. I was almost too scared to pull this book off the shelf. (curiosity won out) But it's not what the title suggests...or author! Just look at the cover, it explains everything.

Read the introduction. What turns women on? Men doing chores, men being thoughtful, men listening. It's a funny book, and if your husband already does those things, it's not critical of them. There's a quiz at the end and my husband ranked top scores.

Read Also:

Alec Greven's How to Talk to Girls

John Gray's Truly Mars & Venus

Bob Raczka's Guyku: a year of haiku for boys.

"Wait" - Antoinette Portis

3 words. 3 words constitute the entire vocabulary of this book! Always genius when intonation tells a story and changes the meaning.

His mother wants him to "hurry" or they'll miss their bus. A boy wants to "wait" and see all the things there are to see in the city. Is the time spent worth it? Find out inside!

Read Also:

Uri Shulevitz's Dusk has a boy walking with his grandfather enjoying the city at sunset.

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena follows a boy and his grandmother seeing the sights of the city as they cross San Francisco.

Jez Alborough's Hug also has 3 words and depends entirely on intonation to tell the story.

"Monty the Hero" - Steve Smallman

Cute moles, hedgehogs, mushroom helmets, and dandelions...*sigh* Cute little heroes.

Monty is bored at home. He wants to be a hero! ...and fight a monster and find a magic wand to grant wishes and... One night, he does.Monty and his hedgehog friend, Herbert, embark on an adventure involving all of these.

Read Also:

Disney Infinity: Toy Box Heroes by Christy Webster is an easy reader story involving Toy Story characters.

Jo Witek's Brave as Can Be.

I How to Be a Hero by Florence Parry Heide. Everyone needs a manual.

"Frostings" - Courtney Whitmore

I've been getting into cooking...well, baking...well, food decorating. You know when they gives points for taste, originality, and presentation? I really only ace the presentation. But my frostings needed work. This has every variety of buttercream and flavored frostings! Pictures for everything recipe too! (My absolute requirement for any cookbook).

Gotta try the salted caramel and key lime frostings!!

Read Also:

The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook by Rosanna Pansino has great icing/frosting suggestions!

"Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron" - Michael Stackpole

Star Wars fan, right here. But can you really improve on the original 3 films? Not really, but you can certainly draw out all the things you love about it into books! They're exciting.

Wedge Antilles (my favorite character!) is in charge of Rogue Squadron now that Luke is doing Jedi stuff. He forms Rogue Squadron, X-wing pilots with nothing to lose and enjoy ignoring the rules.

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I really don't read this genre a lot...think of it like The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy: a small band of people working outside the law but with the law's blessing.

I've always wanted to read David Weber's "Honor" series.

By the end, I realized it was very similar to the TV show Firefly.

"Mr. Messy" - Roger Hargreaves

I love these books because the artwork is sooo cute! And I'm a sucker for a series. They have short lessons (happiness is infectious, not everyone likes to be tickled, helping others, etc.).

Mr. Messy is REALLY messy. House, yard, self, habits, all messy. He goes walking one morning and meets 2 gentlemen: Mr. Neat and Mr. Tidy. You can guess what follows.

Read Also:

The Berenstein Bears and the Messy Room by Sten & Jan Berenstein

Jan Thomas' artwork is very similar.

Jane Yolen's How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? discusses a few bad habits.

"Robin Hood: the mythic biography" - Stephen Knight

Thought Robin Hood was real? Thought he was handsome? Thought he was noble? This is not the book for you! Anyway, if you like to read a thesis which has become someone's life's work? This is it!

Follow the trail of Robin Hood from local village dance figure and legend to Hollywood icon and Legendary. And how he made it that far.


Read Also:

Sandra Curtis' Zorro Unmasked: the official history gives you a real, live history of a fictional character.

The Science of TV's the Big Bang Theory by Dave Zobel reads just like a physics report tipped with reasons to keep reading.

The Man Who Never Was by Ewen Montague...for the title (hee hee!)