Year: 2016
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So there’s sort of a story that goes with this book, and I thought I’d share it because who doesn’t love a story about a book? I don’t actually know where I found out about this book. I think I read a review of it somewhere. It wasn’t very popular or anything, but I was…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. It was not easy to pick a topic for this post. I had several ideas, but they all led me to dead ends. When I finally decided I wanted to do quotes, I wasn’t sure what to pick. Shakespeare? Classic lit? Awkward…
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There were really two types of recipes in White Teeth (which incidentally is a book I adore and is a book everyone really needs to read. Like drop what you’re doing and read it. It’s brilliant…). One type of recipe is something and chips like an omelet or beans. The other type is Indian foods that…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and The Bookish. My mom’s not here to make me her famous chicken soup. Paul is not great at making tea–I mean he’s great at starting the kettle or putting the mug microwave but he doesn’t usually remember to pull the tea out! Breathing is…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. Today’s topic was a freebie, so I thought I’d do a post related to one of my challenges for the year, which is to make more of a dent in the books I actually own. I normally find this a bit difficult…
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Food is supposed to make you feel good. It provides sustenance and is usually the conduit for good memories. But all too often, there are people for whom eating is not a positive experience. I feel so much for Eleanor and the abuse she and her family go through at the hands of their stepfather.…
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It’s really hard when you lose great artists. Or when you lose people who represent your childhood. Even though you never would have met them, and there’s no way they could know that they had an influence on your life, it’s still painful to lose them. I was so sorry to lose both David Bowie…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish So with the end of the year comes the best book of the year lists. I added a bunch of those to my TBR of course, but since I already talked about some of those books last week, I thought I’d come…
Allison Burris 