Tag: Featured
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Sweet Summer Strawberry Shortcakes
June 14th is National Strawberry Shortcake day so I had to make one of my favorite summer dishes to commemorate the day!
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Love and Other Words
“In a sense, my time away from him felt like going to work, and the weekends and summer were coming home — unwinding… being myself.”
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This is Home
Lisa Duffy did a wonderful job highlighting the effects that war can have on not just a soldier, but that soldier’s family. There were numerous heartbreaking moments within the pages that really brought that aspect home to me.
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The Perfect Fraud
This is truly the perfect beach read. It is entertaining, captivating and terrifying all rolled up into one masterfully told story.
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Searching for Sylvie Lee
“We are all ultimately unreliable storytellers of our own lives, whether we wish it so or not, whetherwe share a common language or not.” It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother— and then Sylvie…
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The Favorite Daughter
“The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.” –Meghan O’Rourke, The Long Goodbye
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May Wrap-Up
The month of May brought with it some truly phenomenal reads and I am looking forward to what June has in store!
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Finding Dorothy
“Magic isn’t things materializing out of nowhere. Magic is when a lot of people all believe in the same thing at the same time, and somehow we all escape ourselves a little bit and we meet up somewhere, and just for a moment, we taste the sublime.”
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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