Category: book review
Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Book Quotes
Welcome to Top Ten Tuesdays! This week’s theme revolves around our favorite quotes. Some of my favorites are literary and some are pulled from my favorite books. Some are profound. Some may be profane. All speak to me in some way. Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions…
Thinking & Eating, a book review and recipe
Check out this new cookbook (out on September 29), my review and a comforting pasta bake for when things “get too much.”
Books On My Fall 2020 TBR for Top Ten Tuesdays
Here’s what’s on my Autumn list. Some of these are ARCs that are on my review list, some of these are from favorite authors. As usual with my TTT posts, it’s a hodgepodge.
Smoked Meatloaf and Recipe for a Perfect Wife for Cook the Books
Today’s offering: a retro meatloaf recipe and a review of Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown for the August/September round of Cook the Books.
Top Ten Tuesdays: Judging Books by Their Covers
This week’s TTT theme is all about book covers. I can say that I have been known to wander through bookstores and pick up books based on their covers (more so than the title or author). Here’s what I came up with this week. Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown. I have to…
Blueberry-Blackberry Corn Muffins for Let the Willows Weep for TLC
Parnell’s first novel, Let the Willows Weep, is a triumph in the genre of sad Southern novels. Her characters are drawn deep and you will laugh and cry with her heroine, Birddog Harlin.
Top Ten Tuesday: Books for Our Younger Selves
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday focuses on Books for Our Younger Selves. We could draw on books we wish we had read as a child, books we could have really learned something from, books that meshed with hobbies/interests, or books that could have helped with life events/changes in our young and impressionable lives. TTT is hosted…
Questions I Would Ask My Favorite Authors (Living or Dead) for Top Ten Tuesday
I don’t know what was harder, thinking of the questions or thinking about the authors I would pose them to. Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday!
The Doctor of Aleppo and Eggplant and Tomato Stew with Pomegranate Molasses
The Doctor of Aleppo is a new offering by Dan Mayland and the current stop on the TLC Book Tour. This is a beautifully written tale of the Syrian civil war and those who found themselves in the middle of it, by birth and by circumstance. The novel inspired me to make this beautiful vegetarian…
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I loved but never reviewed…
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday (hosted at Artsy Reader Girl) was a hard one for me. (I have said that about a few other TTT topics but once I got started on a list, I almost couldn’t stop.) For “Books I Loved But Never Reviewed,” I had to dig deep. I am having to…