Year: 2015

• 2015 Women Writers Reading Challenge–Book #2: The Lifted Veil by George Eliot

  January 20, 2015

  Reading Challenge

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  This book was a recommendation from one of my favorite college professors (I had a bunch of favorites, but Professor Freeman was something special). She was trimming down her library, preparing for a move to the east coast, and she invited everyone to come to her office and take a couple books. I chose this…

• Baking for Bookworms: Jasmine Caramels from Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch

  January 12, 2015

  Baking for Bookworms

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  If you have not read the Pulitzer Prize winning book, you really ought to do so. Donna Tartt’s novel is not a recent read for me, as I read it over a year ago, but it was a book that stayed with me. It is not a plot heavy novel, but the rich language negates…

• 2015 Women Writers Reading Challenge–Book #1: Zorro by Isabel Allende

  January 9, 2015

  Reading Challenge

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  My first book is a hold over from last year, I was reading it as the year came to a close and was working diligently on my Nana’s 70th birthday/New Year’s Eve party (more on that to come). I didn’t get a chance to finish it until after our move, but I’ve finally finished it.…