I’m sharing another serendipitous find from the library’s new book shelf this week: Pure Heart, A Spirited Tale of Grace, Grit, and Whiskey by Troy Ball with Bret Witter. Some of you might already be familiar with Troy Ball from the show Moonshiners or from her disabled & nonverbal son Marshall’s book Kiss of God (and their subsequent 1999 appearance on …
Today we’re going to do something different and talk about a whole series, since I just finished reading all eight books of Annie Bellet’s The Twenty-Sided Sorceress series in two omnibus volumes from the library. A couple of months ago we were talking about escapist literature, and I tend to read a lot of urban fantasy …
What’s Rachel Reading this week? Mad Genius Tips — full of food hacks & recipes. See my review, then let me know what you’re reading lately! Let’s do another cookbook this week: The library new book shelf always reels me in with its pretty cookbooks all in a row, and Mad Genius Tips doesn’t disappoint in …
Last week I told you about how I never eat breakfast anymore, and that when I was looking around at what people said about breakfast being the most important meal of the day, I ran across this idea of intermittent fasting and the associated idea of losing weight by getting all your meals in during …
A couple of weeks ago I grabbed Nicholson Baker’s Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids off the new book shelf at the library, and gradually managed to slog my way through it in between dips into cookbooks and various other reading material. Yes, I said slog: Baker is, of course, a fantastic writer and many …
Don’t you just love Alton Brown? I mean, of course, in the sense that he makes you feel totally inadequate in the kitchen yet simultaneously awed and inspired… and in the sense that he seems both approachable and on another plane at the same time? If that all seemed wonderfully muddled, so is Alton Brown’s newest …