Project: Organization Quick and Easy Ways to Organize Your Life

Reviewed by Dayna Davis, LDSFiles.com Staff Writer

Project: Organization Quick and Easy Ways to Organize Your Life by Marie Ricks. Published by Shadow Mountain.

Retail Price: $16.95 Available here

Do you dream of being more organized? Do you feel like you are constantly running two steps behind where you should be? Are you fairly clean and organized but know things could run a little more efficiently? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you. It is divided into sections such as, "organize your home", "organize your time", and "organize your family", and inside each section is several two or three page chapters that tell how to quickly streamline a particular area, idea, thing or activity. You can read them in order or you can hop around. All can be accomplished quickly without giving too much time to it.

I love this book! I'm already a fairly organized person, and reading this book has just made me more effective in what I'm already trying to do! It's easy to read, each chapter is short and it makes a lot of sense. An example is the chapter about organizing cleaning supplies. I am constantly buying new cleaning supplies - forever searching for the perfect product. She suggests taking inventory of your supplies, having enough of the same product for both floors of your home, and then labeling them 'upstairs and downstairs'. Sounds simple enough - but I had never thought of it. Instead I carry my supplies from floor to floor, then dig through them all to find I'm out of toilet bowl cleaner. Through this small, quick, change, my life has become a little easier and more organized. I thought this book was very helpful overall. I only wish there was a few chapters on organizing food storage and recipes!

Presidents and Prophets

Reviewed by Heather See, LDSFiles.com Staff Writer

Presidents and Prophets by Michael K. Winder.

Retail Price: $32.95 Available here

"In this groundbreaking work, Mike Winder presents the story of America's presidents and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. From Washington to Bush, each President and their relationship with the Mormons is explored, and we see the Church rising from obscurity to political clout as America's-fastest growing religion.

Familiar anecdotes are retold -- Wilford Woodruff's vision of the Founding Fathers; Joseph Smith calling on Martin Van Buren; Ezra Taft Benson serving in Eisenhower's cabinet; and Gordon B. Hinckley receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush. And, there is much, much more."

This book goes chapter by chapter about each President. It talks about the relationship that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints had with the American government. It starts out a little sketchy, understandably, there are fewer facts reported earlier in history, and becomes more detailed throughout the book.

What I really liked about this book was that you were able to read it when you wanted. You don't need to read it all in one sitting. There is no continuity, you can pick and choose where and what chapter you want to read.

This book is historically accurate and very informative. I am interested in history so I found it fascinating, however, I can see how one would find it boring if they have no interest in the subject.

"Presidents and Prophets" included letters that the Presidents of the church and country wrote back and forth to each other and about each other. It was neat to see how the church is involved. There were a lot of things I didn't know, for example, several Presidents received priesthood blessings. They were very God-fearing people. Overall, it was a book I enjoyed learning from.