Good afternoon, all! In the grand tradition of announcing things publicly in order to help with accountability, I wanted to let you guys know that I’m participating in NaNoWriMo this year. What’s this? At its most basic: Every November, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) participants work towards a goal of completing a 50,000 word novel …
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a book review here — but this isn’t because I haven’t been reading; it’s because I haven’t had the time to tell you about it! So, since I just finished (yes, another) food memoir, I thought it might be a good fit for a freezing Friday here. There’s …
I’m a perpetual sucker for food memoirs, so of course had to pull Give a Girl a Knife off the new book shelf at the library a couple of weeks ago. Since we don’t have cable, I didn’t even know that Amy Thielen formerly had a Food Network show (“Heartland Table”) — but that’s quite all right; her …
I received a digital copy of Indian Instant Pot Cooking for purposes of review. All opinions here, however, are my own. *** Update — the Kindle version of Indian Instant Pot Cooking is just $1.99 on Amazon as of 9/27/17! Great deal. If you’ve spent any time in the Instant Pot community group on Facebook, you’re …
Why yes, we are back to cookbooks in this week’s edition of What’s Rachel Reading. 🙂 Up today: Eat Delicious: 125 Recipes for Your Daily Dose of Awesome by Dennis the Prescott. This was another impulse find from the library’s new book shelf, because who doesn’t want to eat delicious? The photos The book serendipitously begins with …
Who else instantly heard the lulling rhythm of “in the great green room, there was a telephone, and a red balloon…” in your head as soon as you saw this book cover? Both of my boys went through a lengthy Goodnight Moon phase, but I never really knew anything about its author. After reading In the Great …
