This week's local library find of randomness? Away With Words: An Irreverent Tour Through the World of Pun Competitions. Written by Fast Company reporter Joe Berkowitz, Away With Words is a mostly-entertaining romp through the world of pun View Post
What’s Rachel Reading? The Local Foods Mystery Series!
What's better than finding a good new book to read? Well, that would of course have to be finding a good new (to me...) series of books to read! I recently ran across one of Edith Maxwell's Local Foods Mysteries at the library, and quickly ended up View Post
What’s Rachel Reading? Leaving Time
Let me tell you a little bit about what I've been reading this week! Like most of Jodi Picoult's novels, the New York Times best-selling Leaving Time would be a great book club pick: There's a lot to discuss in this compelling read: The plight of View Post
What’s Rachel Reading? A mini January roundup…
Although I haven't posted a book review here in a while, what with all the holidays/winter break/kids off school/random illnesses mishegos going on in this house, rest assured: Much reading has actually been done. So as I've been walking around the View Post
What’s Rachel Reading? To Siri with Love
Why yes, I am a sucker for a clever book title -- but you probably could have guessed that much already. The book To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines grew out of a viral 2014 New York Times op-ed of the same View Post
What’s Rachel Reading? The Comfort Food Diaries
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 View Post
