Browning Books

This is one of the most inspirational and heartwarming stories I have read in a long time. I highly recommend it to anyone who is experiencing difficulties physically and emotionally as it is uplifting and such an encouragement! Russell's ability to overcome this tremendously difficult period in his life is remarkable. I only wish there was a sequel to the book as I would love to know more about his photography and the aftermath of his success. The book is a light hearted approach to a most serious situation allowing the reader to appreciate and value man's will to survive. The author, his wife, has a wonderful sense of humor and evoked curiousity and wonder for the tiniest of birds... the hummingbird! I highly recommend the book to children and adults alike who desire to learn the success of determination!

This book is definately worth reading! Chapters 5 and 6 are exceptionally good. Highly recommended!

Dixie Browning's "Diva's Who Dish" series is off to a terrific start. The Divas are the three best friends, Daisy, Marty & Sasha, in a small town in NE North Carolina in the vicinity of the Great Dismal Swamp & the Outer Banks. These 30-something ladies dabble in matchmaking with sometimes unpredictable & hilarious results. This book is Daisy's story. She's a geriatric nurse who dedicated herself to her longtime patient, Harvey. At Harvey's funeral, she encounters his long-lost nephew, Kell, who is searching for his family roots. They are attracted to each other, but she doesn't trust the sparks that fly between them.....she tries to convince herself she needs a stable, predictable relationship with the local banker. Marty & Sasha's stories are introduced in this book, and Faylene, the housekeeper kept me laughing, during this wonderful love story.

This is an excellent book for anyone interested in Baptist churches and Baptist history, and also for anyone interested in the history of Summerfield, which is in Guilford Co., N. C. It is loaded with old photographs, is well-documented, and fully indexed. [...]

ISBN 0373087470 - Just when I feel that my lifelong certainty that romance novels are all stupid, ridiculous, vapid wastes of trees is about to be proven true, there always seems to be that one author who falls into my lap to disabuse me of that notion. This time it was Dixie Browning.

Chloe Palmer, running away from what remains of her life, finds herself on the road, playing a game. She tells herself a story about the people she sees and this story, this time, involves a Ukrainian man on a secret mission regarding a soybean fertilizer formula. Moments later, she's driven her car into a tree. Luckily for her, her fertilizer spy is actually Quint Stevens, a very nice man who just loves to bring home strays. Chloe is close enough to a stray and Quint whisks her away to his castle... which is really a small house and quite a pigsty.

Quint is engaged to another woman, a business arrangement more than anything else, but Chloe doesn't know that. What she knows is that she's growing more attached to Quint every day and if she doesn't get her car back soon, she may never leave. To repay his kindness, she takes on the tremendous task of turning his bachelor pad into a home that is ready to welcome his new bride - and Chloe definitely doesn't want to be there to witness that!

In the same 180-odd pages that all romances fill, Browning somehow manages to make the story much more believable. The characters don't meet and fall head over heels in love in the first day, which is a nice twist, and the sex scenes aren't thrown in just to brighten the reader's day. My endless search for the most ridiculous line ever discovered in a romance novel hits a brickwall, but I find Browning is actually a funny woman (ie. "... beaming at her as if she were a big chocolate bunny he'd found in his Easter basket.")

Still, The Homing Instinct isn't without flaws. Browning seems to speak another language entirely a couple times, never bothering to explain the meaning of phrases or words that defy Webster's. "Ginny...laughed and told her not to be a 'noggin'." - a head? Don't be a head? And "...had taken him a good whack of time..." which, I find, does have a fitting definition but seems out of place in the book. Picky, sure, but in a book that otherwise surpasses almost every hope I'd ever held for the romance genre, I'd like to understand what I'm reading. Quick read, unexpected fun, well worth the small investment of time.

Dominique Browning, editor of HOUSE & GARDEN magazine, has a triumph on her hands with "House & Garden Book of Style." HOUSE & GARDEN has long been the sophisticated cousin to the more accessible HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, and that chicness is in evidence here. The HOUSE & GARDEN cool austerity--sometimes sacrificing warmth for hard-edged style, but many times not--is amply displayed throughout.

The book covers a panoply of styles, from "Country Luxe" to "New International" to "Mid-Century Modern" and beyond. The shabby warmth of English-inspired rooms is covered, as is the prissier French look--but as HOUSE & GARDEN so often does, there is almost always a visual wrench thrown into the works to get your attention and make you rethink your assumptions about a particular genre. Perfectly making the point is the photograph on p. 25, which shows an 18th-century settee decorously covered in a taupe damask, above which hangs what appears to be a piece of Spirograph art made with screamingly bright primary oil paints. The effect is jarring--but it works.

The thinking which goes into the decoration of these rooms is explored just as deeply as the looks themselves. Although photographs take up most of the room--as they should, since this is a case when a picture telling a thousand words is not only desirable, but necessary for instructing the reader--the text is informative and enlightening. The end result is that these profoundly individual rooms make their own cases, and what beautiful cases they make.

"How Do I Love Thee?" was a romantic true love story. In the book, Robert Browning gave Elizabeth "Ba" Barret the courage to love and live life. Ba was an invalid who lived with a widowed, controlling father of seven children. Although, Ba was his pride and joy, he kept her captive through her illness. Ba's poetry caused Robert Browning to fall in love with her and wish to meet her. The two poets' friendship blossomed through their letters; after they met face to face it soon became love. Soon Ba's father was the only thing standing in the way of their true happiness.

The book begins with a curious statement which holds your attention through the first few chapters. "How Do I Love Thee?" becomes very interesting after Ba and Robert finally meet face to face. The author's incorporation of the love poems of Elizabeth Barret Browning and Robert Browning was terrific addition to the story. The end was disappointing, but the book as a whole was a fantastic true love story of two amazing poets.

This book is extremely well written and easy to follow. The information provided in the book is very valuable. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.

Paul "Bear" Bryant was a football coach rightly beloved by fans of the Alabama Crimson Tide, for his team won six national championships, thirteen Southeastern Conference titles, and twenty-four consecutive appearances in bowl games from 1959 through 1982. Those who knew him best continue to love him, and Al Browning's I Remember Paul "Bear" Bryant is heartfelt testimony to that love. Dozens of his friends and acquaintances, from former football players to childhood friends to family to opponents on the field reminisce in their own words the man they knew. I Remember Paul "Bear" Bryant tells of a master of reverse psychology; a steely disciplinarian; and a truly kind human being beneath the tough-as-nails exterior. Paul Bryant has moved on from this life, but he will not be forgotten. Recommended for anyone who would wish a glimpse into the life of one of the greatest football coaches who ever lived.

I picked this book up at the library because Virginia Woolf wrote a book about Elizabeth's dog Flush! I didn't expect to be so pleased. I hate to put the book down. I've ordered my own copy from Amazon. Ms. Winwar's wonderful way of pulling the reader into a story is wonderful. I have decided to try every single book she's written and that is an impressive list! I highly recommend this book, you will love it whether or not you like poetry.