Year: 2017
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. What I love about graphic novels is the way they use pictures to evoke mood in a more immediate way than words alone. So much of communication is non-verbal and graphic novels let you experience the importance of…
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Title: Bouchon Bakery Authors: Thomas Keller & Sebastien Rouxel with Susie Heller, Matthew McDonald, Michael Ruhlman, & Amy Vogler How it fulfills the challenge: Have you seen the list of authors? That’s a lot for one cookbook, even as big as this one is… Genre: Cookbook Quick Description: For the serious home or small professional baker. A collection of…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. Today’s topic is a freebie, so I thought I’d address a topic that I missed last year–my favorite historical periods to read and learn about. But it turned out to be very difficult to narrow these down, and I really like to…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. I think that you find books at the right times to read them…or you don’t and you miss out on that book. Sometimes the book is the right one for you, and you can read it over and over again without it…
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If you look up at the top of your screen, you’ll notice that the name of the blog is no longer “Aliza Shandel” but instead “Ink & Reel.” I’m not going to be changing the domain name yet (I’ll give a heads up before that happens), but I thought it would be nice to get…
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Title: The Night Circus Author: Erin Morgenstern How it fulfills the challenge: The Night Circus is one of those books that uses its imaginative and fantastical powers to charm and delight. The circus Morgenstern creates is one that I would love to experience. It’s a book that made me happy the first time I read it, and…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is all about what 2016 releases we really meant to get to, but weren’t able to read for whatever reason. My reading is almost always at least a year (if not a century) behind, so I actually like waiting…
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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude Author: Gabriel García Márquez How it fulfills the challenge: Márquez is from Colombia, and I’ve never been outside of North America Genre: Literary Fiction/Classic Quick Description: A sweeping family saga in a small Caribbean town filled with super long lived residents and plenty of mystery and intrigue. It follows…
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So last year’s challenge did not go well. And not because I didn’t read a lot of books. I just sort of lost my motivation somewhere along the way. I think the real problem had something to do with the nature of the challenge itself. My goal was to read more of the books that…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish. I took the week off of blogging for the holidays, but I couldn’t resist commenting on my favorite books last year (especially since this week’s topic is all about 2017 new releases and we all know that I won’t be getting…
Allison Burris 