If you're shopping for Christmas this weekend, try these books

First, before I forget, if you want a chance to win a collection of gourmet salts, go to barbaraoneal.com [image error]and post a favorite food from childhood.

Let's talk about books one more time before Christmas, shall we? What are you reading and recommending to others this year? What are some of your favorite reads of the year?

This week, I've been finishing Eclipse, the third book in the Stephanie Meyers group. I have read the oddest things about this book, feminist rhetoric that makes it plain the...