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.” . . . → Read More: Thinking & Eating, a book review and recipe

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. . . . → Read More: Books On My Fall 2020 TBR for Top Ten Tuesdays

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. . . . → Read More: Smoked Meatloaf and Recipe for a Perfect Wife for 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 . . . → Read More: Top Ten Tuesdays: Judging Books by Their Covers

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. . . . → Read More: Blueberry-Blackberry Corn Muffins for Let the Willows Weep for TLC

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 . . . → Read More: Top Ten Tuesday: Books for Our Younger Selves

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! . . . → Read More: Questions I Would Ask My Favorite Authors (Living or Dead) for 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 stew. . . . → Read More: The Doctor of Aleppo and Eggplant and Tomato Stew with Pomegranate Molasses

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 . . . → Read More: Top Ten Tuesday: Books I loved but never reviewed…

TTT: Books with Colors in the Title

It’s Tuesday. Time for another Top Ten.

Instead of doing a Google search for “Books with Colors in the Title” (this week’s Top Ten Tuesday challenge), I decided to mosey through my book shelves and see what colorful tomes I could find.

Quite a Year for Plums (Bailey White). Plum is a color, no? Hilarious . . . → Read More: TTT: Books with Colors in the Title