What’s better than finding a good new book to read? Well, that would of course have to be finding a good new (to me…) series of books to read! I recently ran across one of Edith Maxwell’s Local Foods Mysteries at the library, and quickly ended up going back to pick up all five books in the …
Let me tell you a little bit about what I’ve been reading this week! Like most of Jodi Picoult’s novels, the New York Times best-selling Leaving Time would be a great book club pick: There’s a lot to discuss in this compelling read: The plight of African elephants; the dynamics of various flawed yet powerful personal relationships; the …
Why yes, I am a sucker for a clever book title — but you probably could have guessed that much already. The book To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines grew out of a viral 2014 New York Times op-ed of the same name by Judith Newman. In her initial article, she discussed …
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a book review here — but this isn’t because I haven’t been reading; it’s because I haven’t had the time to tell you about it! So, since I just finished (yes, another) food memoir, I thought it might be a good fit for a freezing Friday here. There’s …
I’m a perpetual sucker for food memoirs, so of course had to pull Give a Girl a Knife off the new book shelf at the library a couple of weeks ago. Since we don’t have cable, I didn’t even know that Amy Thielen formerly had a Food Network show (“Heartland Table”) — but that’s quite all right; her …
I received a digital copy of Indian Instant Pot Cooking for purposes of review. All opinions here, however, are my own. *** Update — the Kindle version of Indian Instant Pot Cooking is just $1.99 on Amazon as of 9/27/17! Great deal. If you’ve spent any time in the Instant Pot community group on Facebook, you’re …