There is a sci fi month coming up in November. I do like a themed reading/blogging month (although I wish it wasn’t the same month as Nonfiction November). I decided to take a quick look back to see what sci fi I’ve read this year to get an idea of what I would talk about. I don’t read enough sci fi. I read lots of fantasy. My imagination likes magic. But straight sci fi is rare for me. So I did what one does in this situation and headed to ... Read the Post...
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
I don't generally review any books that I read in long-running series because what can you really say? Every plot point may be a spoiler for past books. I recently listened to a short story that took place in a series that I had stopped reading several books back. I listened to the whole story in utter shock. The main character had lost an arm, gotten a new girlfriend, lost some of his previous supernatural abilities, and moved to Australia. ... Read the Post...
Southern Girl Meets Vegetarian Boy
I was scrolling through the available ebooks on my library app when I saw this cookbook. I have a habit of checking out most of the vegetarian cookbooks that I see. I wasn't familiar with this author but apparently she was on the Food Network. It is immediately apparent that this is not really a cookbook for vegetarians. This is a cookbook for someone who knows a vegetarian and can't figure out what to cook for them. She discusses ... Read the Post...
Taste
This is a book that it took me a long time to warm up to. That surprised me. I enjoy Stanley Tucci in movies. I like foodie memoirs. But this book had a lot of childhood stories and that tends to bore me in a memoir. The recipes in this book are also very meat-centric. The author really, really loves meat. I can't relate so the recipes weren't very interesting to me either. But then he started to write about filming a series on ... Read the Post...