Author: allison burris
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So I don’t exactly have a recipe or a normal post for you. Because I made this sauce. And it was just. so. gross. So I will not be sharing the recipe with you. Because you will hate me if I do. I mean, I will share vaguely. But don’t make it. So the Hugo,…
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Kate Christensen’s novel is written in diary format, though the narrator would probably not like it being referred to that way. But it’s written as a series of notebooks he writes his private thoughts in and doesn’t let anyone read…so a diary. There’s nothing wrong with having a diary of course; I’ve had one for…
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We’re nearing the end of the year, and the end of my 75 books by female authors challenge is in sight (only nine left!), so it’s important to start thinking about what we’re going to read next year… At the beginning of the year, I naively assumed that after reading only women, the next year…
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So this post is late, obviously. I haven’t been keeping up with my baking for bookworms posts very well, even though they’re one of my favorite features. But I’m working on getting everything back on track. If you have a book you want me to cook or bake from, be sure to leave it in…
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I am a total and absolute sucker for anything and everything remotely related to the Thousand and One Nights. They are a group of stories that mean as much, or more, to me as the standard western fairy tales, which I also have a deep and abiding love for. The difference is, these are ones that…
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So I’m now coming down off the NaNoWriMo writing high, and I must say that it is nice to shower and get dressed before noon or leave the house without feeling like the world is ending, but in a way it’s bittersweet too. It’s so easy to fall back into not-writing. Writing comes naturally, but…
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Lydia Millet’s novel considers the possibility of the supernatural intruding into harsh reality. Partially a story of what love and magic means to one woman and partially a satire about how humanity responds to the beautiful, the book is deceptively light. I really enjoyed this book about a honeymoon going horribly and dramatically wrong and…
Allison Burris 