Category: Read – Play – Watch

Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the Hollywood film in which she was playing her first leading role. On the outside she was thin and blond, glamorous and successful. On the inside, she was literally dying. In this searing, unflinchingly honest book, Portia de Rossi captures the complex emotional truth of what it is like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action.

From popular blogger Bakerella (Angie Dudley) comes an entire cookbook dedicated to making cake pops. What are cake pops, you ask? They’re cute little treats that are a mixture of cake and frosting, then dipped in chocolate or other candy coating and shaped into a fun design — anything from snowmen to robots! Add a stick and voila — you’ve got a delicious mini treat.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue.

Toy Story is a fantastic franchise – who doesn’t love Woody and Buzz? But seriously, they really out-did themselves on Toy Story 3. This was truly a movie that I can’t quite decide if the adults or kids liked it more! I laughed, I cried, I don’t want my kids to grow up and leave the house…