Author: allison burris
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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…
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I know the majority of my readers aren’t anywhere close to Boise, geographically, so I’ll keep this brief, but I thought I would see if anyone living close by might be interested. I am participating in an art show put on by RAW, which supports artists in all types of mediums from performance art,…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. So I am fairly obsessed with both the book series A Song of Ice and Fire and its HBO counterpart, Game of Thrones. I’m used to a new season coming out at the end of March, so imagine my not-so-happy feelings at…
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If there is anything I associate with The Princess Diaries series, it is the dowager princess, Clarrise’s penchant for sidecars. And who can blame her? This drink happens to be one of my favorites, too. And I definitely tried it because of these books. Mia is even quizzed on its correct recipe. Of course, the drink would…
Allison Burris 