Year: 2016
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Since getting engaged at the end of January, a lot of my free time has been moving over to wedding planning rather than blogging. I’m still reading a lot of books, but I’m not finding quite as much time to sit down and write posts. Since I haven’t done a DIY post in a long…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is all about childhood characters we’d like to revisit in their adult years. I think it is fair to say that I was a bit obsessed with Meg Cabot as a teenager. I read almost all of her series…
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The first completed series on my list was one I read for book club. Our reading list for the year includes 4 trilogies, and this was the first one up. Series Breakdown: Books in Order: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant Favorite Book: Divergent Genres/Keywords: science fiction, young adult, dystopic My Average Rating: 3.33 What These Books…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by the ladies at The Broke and the Bookish. Today’s topic is ten books that will make you laugh, or at least chuckle. This was a fairly difficult topic for me because it’s hard to predict what will make other people laugh, and having to…
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I’ll be doing a separate post soon about my thoughts on Veronica Roth’s Divergent series, but for now, let’s get cooking! Or baking. Whichever you prefer. The first mention of chocolate cake happens during visiting day, which doesn’t occur in the movie, but basically it’s a time for the family members to officially say goodbye…
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I apologize (again) for being MIA last week. My fiance and I were in Washington D.C. visiting one of my best friends, and blog posts sort of took a back seat. If I’d been better prepared, I would have scheduled them, but I’m not that good. Since we spent the better part of five days…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. I’m so sorry that I missed a week’s worth of posts–I had company visiting and Paul gifted me with a cold–everything sort of slipped by me. But this week I’m back in action. The topic this week was to share ten of…
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I apologize for not having a picture of the crab cakes. I turned my back and they were gone. But I promise I will update this post with a picture because I plan on making these again very soon… There are few proposals more tried and true than proposing over dinner. Princess Mia has gone…
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This week’s topic is a look at some of the books that are finding their way to the top of my list for the season. Some of them fulfill my reading challenges and some are just books I want to read this spring. Since my current TBR clocks in at over 500 books (and that…
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Alice McDermott’s book follows the life of an Irish immigrant in all its stirring little moments and complexities. It’s a quiet book that is definitely worth a read. There is plenty of food mentioned in the novel, but I really liked this moment between Marie, the narrator, and her mother where her mother tries to…
Allison Burris 