I don’t usually make a habit of reading cookbooks. I also don’t normally run out and buy (or in this case request for Christmas) cookbooks sight unseen, even if I do have other books by that author. I will make an exception for Melissa Clark’s books. I really enjoyed In the Kitchen with a Good […]
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In an alternate London sometime in the 19th century (I think), Kim lives on the streets. When an obviously well to do man offers her five pounds to break into a traveling magician’s wagon and just look around, she can’t say no to such easy money. But, when she’s caught in the act because of
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This year wasn’t too bad for books I started but wasn’t able to finish – just two: 1. Colours in the Steel- K.J. ParkerI was five chapters into this book when I gave it up. There was nothing inherently bad about it, I just couldn’t get myself interested.The premise is interesting enough – a city
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83. Paris, My Sweet – Amy Thomas82. The Midwife’s Apprentice – Karen Cushman81. Pretties – Scott Westerfeld80. Black Powder War – Naomi Novik79. Memory & Dream – Charles de Lint78. Lady of Quality – Georgette Heyer77. The Book Lover’s Cookbook – Shaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Kay Jensen76. The Two Princesses of Bamarre – Gail
Read for LibraryThing EarlyReviewers. Do not read this book on an empty stomach. The author was given the chance of a lifetime when her advertising agency offered to send her to the Paris branch to work on the Louis Vuitton contract. She’d been pretty much obsessed with Paris since she spent a semester there in
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I can’t believe it’s the end of the year already, but I guess I have done a fair amount of knitting in that time. The most notable thing about this picture? No socks (well, other than the baby socks). I took a good break from socks this year, and apparently concentrated on lace instead. I
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The girl was known as Beetle, because she often used the dung piles in villages to keep herself warm at night, until she happened into the village where Jane Sharp was the midwife. Jane wasn’t a particularly kind woman, but she was in need of help, and she took Beetle on, so long as she
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It’s two hundred years in the future, and after a number of man made calamities, people have found the way to keep the peace is the operation to make people Pretty. At age 16, the operation makes everyone beautiful, and improves everyone’s health. What they don’t know is that at the same time, their brains
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I’ve cast on my next project, a shawl for me! I’m making Susan Pandorf’s Galadriel’s Mirror, using Berroco’s Ultra Alpaca Fine, in a lovely dark blue colorway. The yarn ended up being a bit of an adventure. I started to wind it Friday night. The first skein went beautifully. The second skein – well, I
Pattern: Merletto Mitts by Jody McKinleyYarn: Pine Woods Sock in the Nor’Easter colorwayNeedles: Size 2 DPNs My final Christmas knitting is done. And it’s really final now, because I’ve already done Christmas with the only members of my family that I didn’t knit for, so I’m totally out of options for this year. I like