I loved these young ladies! They’re funny and they make mistakes but they’re loyal and there for each other. I related a lot to both Susan and Daisy. When Daisy asks about book club on her birthday, I howled with laughter! That is so me! I’m not quite sure about Esther and her drama but at least she doesn’t actively...
Well, this is a fun idea! Top Ten Books That Make Me Hungry! I'm not a foodie by any means. I used to be a ridiculously picky eater, in fact. But my husband is a bit of a foodie and as I get older, I'm trying to incorporate more new things into my diet. I could be a lot better but I used to be a lot worse. I don't actively seek out books about food, and I'm definitely not a cookbook browser (I still despise cooking), but I have stumbled on some books that incidentally made me hungry. The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Bliss by Kathryn Littlewood Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie, read by Deanna Hurst Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen--Most if not all of Sarah Addison Allen's books involve food in some fashion. Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson--This entire cozy mystery series centers around a caterer. Each book ends with pages of recipes. By Bread Alone by Sarah-Kate Lynch The Food of Love by Anthony Capella Sourdough by Robin Sloan, read by Thérèse Plummer Delicious! by Ruth Reichl, read by Julia Whelan That's my list! Have you read any of these? Did they make you hungry? Which books did/would you choose? Link up every Tuesday at That Artsy Reader Girl!
Julian, Dick, and Anne are disappointed when their parents announce plans to vacation alone in Scotland. The children quickly change their tune when they learn that they will be spending the summer at their aunt and uncle’s house on the coast with their cousin George (Don’t ever call her Georgina) and her dog, Timmy. What follows...
Welcome to my weekly update for August 30, 2020! For our mid-week hike, my husband and I drove up to Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood for a short-ish leg stretcher. He was willing to go further but I just wasn't feeling it that day. Being East Coasters, we were surprised to see so many people at the lodge skiing and snowboarding in [...]
I usually rate books five stars if they rock my world or if I simply can't bring myself to put them down. That's not the case here. My rating reflects the subject matter. How frustrating it must be to have a sharp intellect but to be written off as "less than" because...
These books! I keep saying this but I grin until my face hurts while I’m reading them! Even when the story takes a troubled turn, I smile in anticipation of the eventual Happily Ever After...
No, I didn't link to the wrong post. This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt is actually "Questions I Would Ask My Favorite Authors" but that wasn't doing much for me. Since I just joined this meme last week, I missed out on the "Books I Read but Never Reviewed" topic. That spoke to me a lot so that's what I'm doing! There are so many that I broke out the nonfiction books into their own post this week. Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland by Jeremy B. Jones--Bearwallow is a mountain back home in the Blue Ridge of North Carolina and this memoir/collection of essays felt a lot like home. The author and I must be about the same age so we've shared a lot of the same experiences. I don't know how wide the appeal is, but themes of rural communities in flux and clinging to the past feel pretty universal. We Took to the Woods by Louise Dickinson Rich--I like to think that this author and I would have been fast friends if we'd ever met. She details her family's life and all of their daily mishaps living in the Maine woods in the 1940s. Her writing style is much like my in-person storytelling style, with plenty of dry, self-deprecating humor that kept me laughing out loud and reading endless passages to my husband. Adventures in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird--I've been thinking about this book a lot lately as I've been hiking in the Cascades. Miss Bird embarked on something of a world tour all on her own in the late 1800s and wrote regular letters back home to her sister in Great Britain. This particular volume details her time hiking and mountain climbing in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado--in her proper British-lady…
Welcome to my weekly update for August 23, 2020! My husband and I like to explore on weekdays when he's off and most people are at work, making trails less crowded. So on Tuesday, we drove up to Mount St. Helens for the day for some hiking. It wasn't as classically beautiful as Mt. Rainier but it was striking in its own way. I was too young to remember when the volcano erupted 40 years ago in 1980 but my husband remembers it a bit. You can still see the crater smoking! We practically had the trails to ourselves, probably only seeing ten other people all day. Wildflowers were blooming and we were amazed to see Spirit Lake full of floating tree trunks that blew down in the eruption! Posted: The Lost Colony (Artemis Fowl #5)--3 Stars My Top Ten Books for Netflix Adaptations--My very first Top Ten Tuesday! The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys--4 Stars. I read this on my blogging/reviewing break but I came out of hiding to review it. Read this one. Read: Some of these were short but I really don't know how I finished this many books in one week. It's a lot for me. The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy #3) by S. A. Chakraborty Aerie (Magonia #2) by Maria Dahvana Headley, read by Therese Plummer and Michael Crouch Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright Giant Days Volume I by John Allison et al. Five on a Treasure Island (The Famous Five #1) by Enid Blyton Bookish and the Beast (Once Upon a Con #3) by Ashley Poston Currently Reading: Little Century by Anna Keesey Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks, read by Judy Greer et al. Out of the…
4 Stars. The Fountains of Silence does a wonderful job of presenting the dichotomy of the face that Spain presented to the world and the underlying darkness of the 1950s. Daniel is a wealthy Texas oil baron’s son staying in the American hotel that literally used to be a castle. By starting from his point of view, Sepetys begins with the [...]
Eh. What was most interesting about this book is the setup for future stories. I don't want to give away spoilers, so I won't say much about that, but I will say that I like Minerva and hope that she becomes a recurring character. The other twists could lead to some very interesting developments. I missed most of the oddball...