Two Cookbooks I’ve Been Enjoying Lately
I’ve been enjoying these two cookbooks lately and have put them on my Christmas wish list.
I’ve been enjoying these two cookbooks lately and have put them on my Christmas wish list.
This book interviews ‘nones and dones’—people who do not attend church—about their spirituality, as well as their sources of community and meaning.
These are the epitome of a “cosy mystery.” I found them delightfully entertaining. You follow Vera Vixen, who is a fox, and the town’s journalist, as she solves local murders.
This is what my book friends call a “palette cleanser” and sometimes you need an easy read with a happy ending.
This is an atmospheric, engrossing, immersive read set in Mississippi during the depression.
Reading the book above, reminded me of these four books of his (shown below) that I also loved and highly recommend.
This lyrical, but grounded, literary nonfiction about shepherding is about being in relation to the land, but also to a daughter and a mother.
It is sheer fun to to read on the one level, and meaningful backstory on the suffragist movement on the other.
This is a story about two lonely people, an elderly widower and a seventeen year old girl, who both read the same reading list, and how it changes their lives. Mental health issues play a role, as well as grief. I found the elderly gentlemen particularly endearing.
This is based on the Hans Christian Anderson tale The Wild Swans. It is a long, very deep retelling that adds so much
I listened to this book and it is superbly well done, although the themes are serious, including rape, abuse, and abortion. It is atmospheric and compulsive, and frankly a relief when it is over. There was a quip that the term witch only serves the one naming and not the one named, and that seems … Read more
You too might enjoy this clean clash of wits, which results in a fun read, as well as a relationship of believable substance. This book strikes that rare balance of being light without being vapid.
You might enjoy this novel too; it is clever on various levels. I give it 4 stars.
This is a lovely little book of well observed nature writing. In a time where the environment is in peril from bad policy and practices, it was refreshing to read a beautifully written book about cherishing nature, which didn’t have such threatening overtones.
Yesteryear packs a punch and is different than anything you’ve ever read. It merges many different themes – Christian evangelism, politics, feminism, online influencers, exposure of children on the internet, delusion, and idealism of the traditionalism of the past– in a compulsively readable story, that left me sad in end.