Author: allison burris
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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…
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So I normally don’t take baking posts from descriptions of food, but this custard was part of a really provocative description, and I couldn’t resist. The custard is mention in reference to a particularly amazing bottle of wine. I don’t know that I’ve ever had a wine that reminded me of vanilla custard, but I…
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As I’ve said before, I’m usually much more concerned with reading books that appeal to me no matter when they were written than trying to keep up with the newest releases. I tend to wait until books are out in paperback, or I borrow them from the library, neither of which lend themselves to very…
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I wanted to choose a food from this book that reflected the circus atmosphere, and there are few foods that do that better than fresh buttery popcorn. The first mention of popcorn occurs at the very beginning of the novel, when the narrator, the hunchbacked Oly, describes the ‘good days’ of her youth at the…
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