Can Shopping Online Get Any Better Than This!?!

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I do the majority of my online shopping these days using a portal with a setting that will alert the stores to donate a portion of what they get paid by me to Invisible Youth Network. This way, I can shop in many of my favorite online stores and know that I'm also helping homeless and/or otherwise at-risk youth while buying items for myself and others. Although I shop in other places as well, the two places where I go the most these days are Amazon and Lulu. Here are instructions for shopping: Click on this link: GoodShop: http://www.goodshop.com/?charityid=invisible-youth-network You will be directed to a page that shows that you will be shopping where a percentage of what you pay will be donated to Invisible Youth Network. I would hope that you would keep things at that setting for at least part of your shopping experience. However, if you want to shop for a favorite charity/cause of your own, find out if it's listed among the possibilities. If it isn't, you can find out how to get it listed for future shopping experiences. When it comes to selecting a store, the pull-down menu will show you what's available--and I think that you'll be pleasantly surprised by the variety. However, pulling down the menu and selecting a store doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to automatically go into the site search window to get you there. If it doesn't, then, type it in yourself and then click to be directed there. Now! You're all set! Let me suggest some great books to curl up and read and/or buy for your friends. I read a lot, so I'm not going to list everything. Just a few. This summer, I made a wonderful, new friend named Stuart V. Goldberg. He lives in Chicago and is an amazing person in so many ways. One thing this guy has done is to write a novel--and it's not going to be his last one by a long shot! The name of the novel (fiction--but a kind of character study and parable) is The One And Only, and it's about a guy who has so much money that he can buy anything he wishes, travel anywhere he wishes, and pretty much do anything he wishes as well. He has a quest to buy as many things as he can where those things are one-of-a-kind. This obsession also spills over into his personal life. How far will he take it? Information about his background gradually unfolds so that the reader will better understand what creates a personality like Rene Sorrell--someone who is, in some ways, a sociopath even though he's actually a very giving and caring person. Anyway, I'll leave the rest up to you to read. I know for sure that you can find this book at Amazon, as this is where I bought my copy as well as ordering one for a friend who doesn't like to shop online. Books by another friend, Roger Dean Kiser, can be found at both Amazon and Lulu. Roger and I have known each other since early in 2001 when we met on a now defunct writing site out of Australia called Written By Me. He grew up in an orphanage in Jacksonville, Florida and can tell many horror stories about the abuse he and other residents received there as well as telling even worse stories about the reform school in Marianna where he was sent for being a delinquent (that is, he was naughty for running away from the abusive orphanage too many times). Of course, not all of his books are about the hard times of his life. In spite of all of this, Roger also shares happy and funny stories as well. He even has a collection of clean jokes. Please go to the portal I've shared a link to here when you're ready to buy the books, but you can click on copies of their covers on his website in order for a free reading of a story from each book. A link with ordering instructions is also given that will take you to where you can find most of his books, CDs, and DVDs (Lulu), but I hope that, at least part of the time, you will return and link in here. Of course, Chicken Soup books are always great. I've recently read all the way through Chicken Soup for the Soul A Book of Miracles and am now reading Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul. I'm also starting to read Susan Boyle's autobiography, which I bought from Amazon. Not only is Susan amazing when it comes to singing, but she's an entertaining writer as well. There are other books I've been reading--and I'm even in the process of writing a book at the moment--but I'm going to sign off for now, as this will get you started. Please be sure to leave feedback about these books if you decide to buy them as well as leaving feedback about how you enjoyed your shopping experience. I'll be very glad to hear from you!