I don’t know if I mentioned this to you, but one of my 2011 New Year’s Resolutions — which I’m beginning to sense were overwhelmingly food-based — was to modify several existing recipes to create one amalgam recipe, and then use that amalgam recipe to cook an official food of Louisiana and have it come [...]
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Posted in Misc., tagged I bet this would be even more delicious with hot peppers in, I MADE THIS, Natchitoches meat pie on January 26, 2011 | 66 Comments »
Review: Columbine, Dave Cullen
Posted in 4 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged amygdalas are funny, Columbine, Dave Cullen, definitely didn't know Columbine was meant to be a bombing, find a picture of James Starks; he's so cute, I read this uncharacteristically quickly after adding it to my TBR list, it's so nice to see Winona Ryder working again even if it's in very silly-looking films, nonfiction, NYC blizzard update: I don't want it, we had pictures of our school-shooter drills in the yearbook on January 15, 2011 | 54 Comments »
On Sunday, after a lovely day curled up under blankets in my pajamas eating and watching films, it occurred to me that it had been ages since I sat down and read a book cover to cover. There are few things I enjoy like I enjoy sitting down with a book and not getting up [...]
Review: Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares, David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged Christmas Christmas Christmas, Christmastime in the city, Dash and Lily's Book of Dares, Dash gets to make a Muppet. I wish I could make a Muppet., David Levithan, multiple points of view, Rachel Cohn, seriously I got this on the dollar shelf at the Strand and it wasn't even an ARC copy on January 11, 2011 | 42 Comments »
How good for there to be a sweet little book about Christmas in New York City for me to read after my first Christmas season in New York City (the first of many!). I found this book for $1 at the Strand, which is all very fitting for a book that starts with its protagonist [...]
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Review: A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin
Posted in 3 Stars, Picked up randomly, tagged A Peace to End All Peace, BOOK ESPRESSO MACHINE, BOOK ESPRESSO MACHINE HOLY CRAP I AM GOING TO HIT THAT LIKE THE ANGRY FIST OF GOD, colonialism, David Fromkin, I wanted more Egypt! More Egypt! I want to know all about Egyptian independence!, IT IS A BOOK ESPRESSO MACHINE AND I WANT TO SEE IT GO MORE THAN ANYTHING, my aptitude test wanted me to be a social worker, my mother's going to comment on this post to say her aptitude test wanted her to be a forester, nonfiction on January 9, 2011 | 28 Comments »
Phew. Finally. I was reading this book for a good, ooh, three weeks I guess, before I finished it at last. Now I know a lot more things than I knew previously about the formation of the modern Middle East, but still not a lot. As with Three Empires on the Nile, much of the [...]
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