Tag: Featured
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Bring the Rain
“When the grief of losing [her] becomes too much, the sunsets over the ocean remind me of how her smile brightened my cloudy thoughts, and how her beauty burst forth when she smiled. In that last burst of light before dark, I can be with her again.”
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
“We want to be loved. Failing that, admired; failing that, feared, failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. The soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact.”
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A Memoir From Scratch
“If I could just teach her how to be resilient, how to love big, how to fear less. How to weather hurt, either at the hands of others or even the hurts she might unknowingly inflict on herself. I wanted her to know that love can come in many forms.”
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The Huntress
From, Kate Quinn, the author who brought us the bestselling novel, The Alice Network, comes another novel packed full of adventure and World War II history. The Huntress follows a WWII-haunted English journalist, Ian Graham, and a fierce Russian fighter pilot, Nina Markova, as they team up together to bring down a ruthless Nazi war criminal who has gone missing since the end of the war.
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My Lovely Wife
“My name is not Tobias. I use that name only when I want someone to remember me. In this case, the bartender… He will remember me. He will remember that Tobias is the deaf man.”
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The Chelsea Girls
“Over the years, the dust of the hotel’s many occupants has spread thinly over the walls, the floors, the mantels, and the hallways, though only a small number remain in spirit. The handrail on the stairs holds the residue of actors and poets, singers and dancers, passed from guest to guest. Great successes and bitter failures, or bitter successes and great failures?”
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Holy Cannoli Cupcakes
Last night our book club met to discuss Daisy Jones & the Six. I knew our hostess was planning to make lasagna so I decided to make my Holy Cannoli cupcakes. These are one of my favorite cupcakes!
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The Night Tiger
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo explores ancient Chinese superstitions and portrays the good, the bad and the evil of life. Also, nestled within the pages there lies a mystery, death, sibling rivalry, a family secret, and a love story; it had everything that I love rolled up into one fantastic adventure.
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In the Blink of an Eye
“It seems to you that the water is always trying to lure its children back, whispering through human dreams, as if your lungs recall breathing water, your old gills strain under the surface of your skin, the webs between your fingers and toes twitch and try to grow, your limbs dream of weightlessness. You are made of water and you can never leave it.”
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The Proposal
“I’ve spent so long being afraid of love, because the last time I was in love, the man I loved only loved one part of me, but not all of me, and I thought love meant having to sacrifice a part of yourself.”
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After I Do
“Maybe what matters is that when you need someone, they are the one you need. Maybe needing someone isn’t about not being able to do it without them. Maybe needing someone is about it being easier if they are by your side.”
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Jack’s Coconut Cream Pie
Here’s to a delicious dessert that transports me back to sitting in a booth, across from my grandfather, enjoying a piece of pie.
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Delicious Sunday Morning Ricotta Pancakes
These pancakes are rich but light, fluffy but filling, sweet but nutritious.. okay, maybe not nutritious. But, oh so delicious!
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The Girls at 17 Swann Street
I loved the writing style of Swann Street; it was poetically hypnotic. Every page gave me a deeper and deeper understanding of what someone goes through while they battle this disease.
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Daisy Jones & the Six
“It is what I have always loved about music. Not the sounds or the crowds or the good times as much as the words— the emotions, and the stories, the truth— that you can let flow right of your mouth.”
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Chocolate Pie with Coconut Flour Crust
Delicious Chocolate Pie paired with a Coconut Flour Crust. Prepare in less than 30 minutes!
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Where the Crawdads Sing
“Sometimes she heard night-sounds she didn’t know or jumped from lightning too close, but whenever she stumbled, it was the land who caught her. Until at last, at some unclaimed moment, the heart-pain seeped away like water into sand. Still there, but deep. Kya laid her hand upon the breathing, wet earth, and the marsh became her mother.”
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is ‘you’re safe with me’- that’s intimacy.”
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These are a few of my favorite things
I hope to be able to introduce you to beautifully written novels, savory meals, deliciously sweet treats and maybe even a few refreshing drinks.