Summary: This book was about Melinda and Robert Blanchard, two people from Vermont who owned a specialty foods company, Blanchard and Blanchard. They had vacationed on the island of Anguilla before and decided that they wanted to live there. They decided that they would pack up everything in Vermont and head south to start a restaurant. While they were building their restaurant they wanted to meet the locals and get some people to work for them in the restaurant. They made it through a very successful year of owning a fine dining restaurant. The next summer came and it was their first hurricane season to go through. One of the biggest hurricanes in a long time was heading straight for Anguilla.

Commentary: I think that the main reason why I really liked this book is because it is about the Caribbean, and the Caribbean is one of my favorite places in the world to go to. I also really like the authors writing style because all of the events actually happened to them in real life. To me, it hooked me in really fast after the first few chapters. And with the authors sensory language really made me feel like I was with them in the Caribbean. There are many other aspects about this book that made me like it so much, including, I really like food and cooking and the book had a lot to do with both of those. Everything that they cooked or ate they described so well, I almost felt like I was eating it, or got a sudden craving for it. And everything that they cooked, I just got the urge to get up and try and cook something similar to what they were making. This book was easily in my top two of books that I have ever read. I also really like this book because there is not much action and or violence so it’s really laid back, which is what I like. Reviewed by Caleb in 2007

Genre: nonfiction & autobiography by one of delta forces founding members.

Rating: 3 stars--I thought it was a great book worth reading if you’re into military and Special Forces stuff.

Inside delta force is about the man Eric Haney, from one day in the late 1960’s, when he begins selection for what will become one of the best counterterrorist organizations in the world, to his completion of training and forming the first unit. The beginning of their training was normal stuff, push ups, curl ups, running and swimming. Later to being alone in the woods, carrying a full combat load, having to make their way to a waypoint, where the then received the coordinates for the next stop. After doing this for a week, and being pushed to not only there physical limits, but also their mental limits, because they were given the least amount of information, to keep them guessing, in order to root out those who didn’t want it as bad. Towards the end he and his teammates do months of shooting exercises. They were one of the first to largely look at the problem of clearing a terrorist held airplane, and wrote the tactics for doing so. If you want the whole James Bond action story, then your looking in the wrong place, this book is the real story of secret agents. Reviewed by Josh in 2007