Category: Food
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The Change
Genre: Magical RealismFormat: 📖Pub Date: 5.3.2022Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Summary: “In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment… After Nessa James’s husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she’s left all alone in a trim white house not far from […]
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One Italian Summer
“There is beauty to the run-down buildings, the laundry strung overhead, the rhythm and drawl of the daily life here. There is beauty, too, in the old Mediterranean architecture, buildings left over from centuries ago, before Naples became what is today. There is beauty in discrepancy — two things that seem oppositional, coming together.”
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Euphoric
Euphoric Synopsis: “Euphoric is your eight-week plan for an alcohol-free lifestyle that can lead to more happiness, well-being, and self-love. It’s the modern woman’s guide to relax without alcohol, find freedom from cravings and fitting in, and create the life you want – along with the audacity to go after it. Imagine a program that […]
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The Show Girl & Pineapple Upside Down Cake
The Show Girl & Pineapple Upside Down Cake The Show Girl by Nicola Harrison follows Olive McCormick in 1927 as she moves from Minneapolis to New York City in search of fame. When I first started reading this book, I had one thing in mind — what would pair perfectly with a story set during […]
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To Sir, With Love
“I could be wrong. But I’ve got to wonder if relationships, especially the complicated ones, the one worth getting right… I wonder if they’re not like fine wine. Maybe you’re just supposed to drink the damn thing.”
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The Last Thing He Told Me
“That’s how you fill in the blanks — with stories and memories of the people who love you. If they lie to you, who are you then?.. The person you thought you knew, your favorite person starts to disappear, a mirage, unless you convince yourself the parts that matter are still true.”
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The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
“Every human being — every single one of us — wakes up each morning hoping, believing, that today is not our day. Not our time. That the storm is not yet here. That our island will not be wiped out. That we will see the sunrise the next morning. That life is worth living.”
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The Soulmate Equation
The Soulmate Equation Thank you, Gallery Books, for gifting me a copy of The Soulmate Equation! 🧬 Genre: Romance Trope: Soul Mate/ Stuck Together Pub Date: 5.18.21 Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Another Christina Lauren novel is in the books! While it isn’t my favorite of theirs (my fav. is In a Holiday, btw) but I did […]
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All About Us
“Is there anything you’d do? If you could go back. Is there anything you wish you’d done differently?”
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Wild Rice Soup (with a Touch of Zing)
As part of my next recipe introduction for Blends Bash 2020 with The CookBook Book Club – I put together a Wild Rice Soup that has a lot of flavor!
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Schitt’s Greek & Mediterranean Lentil Soup
This is my first post featuring my collaboration with The Book Club Cookbook and their 2020 Blends Bash! In searching for a recipe to combine with my first blends – I wanted to do something that was savory and easy. So I settled on a Slow Cooker dish and then finally (because I’m counting down […]
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Migrations
“It’s not life I’m tired of, with its astonishing ocean currents and layers of ice and all the delicate feathers that make up a wing. It’s myself.”
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The Lost Girls of Devon
“Something was going on in the village. Not that anyone would believe her. .. but once you passed eighty, no one believed you had a single thought wroth listening to. But she knew something was going on.”
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The Heir Affair
“We had taken some blows, self-inflicted and otherwise, and somehow emerged unbroken — forged in fire, fiercely in love, and ready to fight..”
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Her Last Flight
“The airplane lies in the shadow of a plateu, half-buried in sand and scrub. It sits at an angle, so the right wing slants upward against the sky while the left wing sinks into the ground… When you come upon a wreckage like this, you approach like you might approach a graveyard. The question is, what bones lie inside?”
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The Last Train to Key West
“Maybe some would say my dreams are too small. Perhaps they would dream of railroads that go over the sea, great, wonderful things. Maybe others want riches and jewels, a chance to travel the globe. For me, this is enough: A corner of paradise in this wretched world that I am able to call my own.”
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We Came Here to Shine
“The fair’s flags soared. Its flowers bloomed. It took hold of the imaginations and got under the skin of all who witnesses its energy and promise, its sights and sounds and smells. It’s scientific advancements astounded. Its global unity promised hope. Its vision inspired those who visited to do something bigger, to be someone better.”
The Bookend Diner 