Author: allison burris
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from the Broke and the Bookish. Today’s topic was to come up with some bookish resolutions. Since I already shared some more general resolutions with you, I figured we’d get right into the resolving. Join a book club–I’ve wanted to join one for a while, but the nature…
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There’s not much food mentioned in the Wicked series. Elphaba has way more important things to do than cook. Or even eat. But there are a few foods that manage to convey both a very Oz-like sense of the exotic as well as a dark of mysterious quality–something decadent but not quite right. Saffron cream is mentioned…
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I hope everyone had a wonderful (but maybe not too crazy) night last night. Now that we’ve all rung in the New Year, it’s time for some reflection on last year and the year ahead. In a way, I’m not sad to see the back of 2015. It’s been an intense and fairly stressful year.…
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I have enough books on my TBR to fill years and years (and years and years) of reading without ever looking at a new release. Most new releases I find in the similarly titled section of the library. There are very few if any books that I look forward to and buy immediately (or even…
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There are some books that leave an indelible mark by dint of their incredible strangeness–books that startle and make you wonder how an author ever could have come up with it. This is one of these books. But it’s brilliant. Geek Love follows the story of Oly, an albino hunchback who her parents deplore for…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by the Broke and the Bookish. I think my mom was heartbroken when I asked her if Santa was real in the second grade. She loved the magic of it. She told me that while Santa and fairies might not be real, the magic of…
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You may have noticed this book popped up on my favorites list for Top Ten Tuesday. There were actually a number of books on that list that I haven’t done a post about yet, but they will all be coming I promise. This book came out about five years ago, but it’s lost none of…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by the Broke and the Bookish. So it is very hard for me to pick favorites when it comes to books. What is your favorite book is probably the most difficult question I am asked on a semi-regular basis. I love so many books. But…
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It took me a while to finish this book because I accidentally left it at my parents’ house. And did I mention I only had 60 pages left? This is an interesting twist on a beloved fairy tale replete with cyborgs and inter-species love. As you know, I love a good fairy tale adaptation. The…
Allison Burris 