The nice thing about this album is the variety of sounds. If I want to set a mood I turn on the repeat mode and listen to one track looped over and over. I have a serious addiction to “The Garden.” Our kitty detests the howling wolves. No music, only nature.

That’s 35° Celsius so think of a hot summer day with the sounds of insects and birds. No music, only nature.

The storm is wonderfully alive and the stormy winds track absolutely whistles! No music, only nature.

Twins, Jack and Ken Norton have emotional scars from their dysfunctional family where their father killed their mother in a jealous rage. In the intervening years they developed their psychic twin connection and then while serving as Navy SEALS volunteered for a special project that would enhance those psychic skills.

They didn’t count on the evil government scientist to also add an extra pair of chromasomes with additional qualities. Now they’re on a psychic special ops team guarding a senator and the team of assassins includes Jack’s wife’s twin sister. Thet’d been hunting for her for months since she was still in the clutches of the evil scientist.

Ken ends up falling for the twin or was it just another lab experiment at the hands of twisted doctor?

Feehan has a great way of keeping the reader on the edge of the seat in the midst of battle, violence, and sex.

When I was in junior high school, geometry was the last math class I understood both how to decode the formulae and theorems as well as why there was a purpose for doing so. I’m not exceptionally spatially minded, but given the facts, I can generally work out the size of a triangle. Algebra, on the other hand lost me once there were more letters involved in the equations than numbers. I barely made it out of algebra and always thought it would be nice, as a writer, to have a college degree, but discovered in my forties that algebra was even less intelligible to me then than it was before. I spent three terms taking pre-college algebra courses at our community college trying to get beyond quadratic equations. It was at that point that I realized that writing every day would stand me in better stead as a writer than having a degree. So to all of you have faced down higher math classes and succeeded, I salute you! I’ll just stick to my circles, squares and triangles.

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia (Unabridged) (Audio) by Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert needed a year to get back her equilibrium after a messy divorce. Since she’d gotten some answers to life’s questions from her guru, she decided to spend a third of that year in India at her guru’s ashram. A few years earlier, Gilbert had been to Bali writing a magazine article about spa vacations. While she was there, she connected with a healer who expressed his wish that she come back to help him with his English in trade for teaching her his way to meditate. He also prophesied that she would find love there in Indonesia. She definitely needed to spend a third of her sabbatical year in Indonesia. The years of depression leading up to Gilbert’s divorce, left her feeling physically depleted. She had been taking language lessons in Italian and decided that her remaining third of a year would be spent indulging in the beautiful language and tasty food of Italy.

It is remarkable how little time it can take to get your groove back when you practice mindful relaxation and acceptance of abundance. After a year of focusing on “I” (Italy, Indonesia, and India) Gilbert found she was able to rejoin the community of “we.”

I loved the author’s narration of her exploits and relationships through this year of wonder. I vicariously experienced her large meals, resplendent journeys and supportive friends and family and felt like I’d taken my own sabbatical from real life while listening to this astounding audiobook. I highly recommend “Eat, Pray, Love” to anyone needing to take a break.

Dillon Caxton is the keeper of the thouroughbred hourse registry in Newmarket, England and this register becomes the target of both thieves and Lady Priscilla who needs to see it in order to find her missing twin brother and extricate him from the clutches of horse race scammers. Sparks fly between Pris and Dillon and flash unbeknownst to them into love. They each are afraid that that the other only loves their beauty and not their true selves.

They discover their true love just in time to have the horse scam originator take vengance for his losses.

Laurens never fails to build a good story that is informative as well as entertaining. And of course she liberally peppers the story with sidetrips to out of the way spots where Dillon and Pris carry out their sexual dalliance.

Jarreau’s album makes a romantic, candlelit dinner even better. We might even skip dessert. This whole album is hot and sexy

This is vintage Elton John/Bernie Taupin. I got this album at iTunes so there are three bonus tracks from a concert at Madison Square Gardens. I think “I Must Have Lost it on the Wind” is my favorite track.

I love these girls! I appreciate their musicianship as well as their message. I hope they never back down! My favorite track, “Lullaby” reminds me of the soundtrack from the film “O Brother Where Art Thou?”