This book is a prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and I only picked it up because I didn’t have to pay for anything. I’ll admit to having no expectations, but it was actually not too bad. It’s a couple years before the action of Pride and Prejudice, and the Bennett girls have […]
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I haven’t done any canning in ages – and still haven’t. But my mother got two quart sized take out containers of sour cherries right before she was going to leave the state, so she left them with me. I ended using David Lebovitz’s No Recipe Cherry Jam because I didn’t have enough fruit to
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I am liking this series so much more than the Shiver books, which was my original intro to this author. In fact, I’d say that Shiver is probably not like the rest of her work, because I’ve liked everything else I’ve read of hers so much more than that book would have lead me
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This book is a collection of shorter works that Gorey had done over the years – if you like his work (which is slightly macabre, and definitely all kinds of wrong), it’s worth a read. There are a couple different alphabet stories that are completely not meant for children, but are so much fun to
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This Brother Cadfael book kicks off with a young juggler, hired to perform at the wedding of the local goldsmith’s son, being chased into the Abbey in front of a mob accusing him of having killed the goldsmith. Lilliwin’s a slight young man, who does not look like a murder, so Brother Cadfael is
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