Tag: Renee Ahdieh

• Baking for Bookworms: Lavash Bread from Renee Ahdieh’s The Wrath and the Dawn

  February 25, 2016

  Baking for Bookworms

  baking, baking for bookworms, bread, lavash bread, Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

  Whenever I can, I like to pick dishes from the books that are filled with special significance, whether that means they’re mentioned at an important plot point, are helpful in understanding a character, or strengthen aspects of the setting. I try to find a dish that meets one of these criteria, but I think the…

• Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books Being Released in 2016 I’m Eager to Read

  December 29, 2015

  Top Ten Tuesday

  2016 book releases, Alexander Chee, Andria Williams, Antonia Hayes, Elizabeth McKenzie, Elizabeth Strout, Ethan Canin, fiction, Game of Thrones, George RR Martin, Renee Ahdieh, Richard Fifield, Top Ten Tuesday, Tracy Chevalier

  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…

• Top Ten Tuesday: Great Quotes from Books I Read this Year

  November 17, 2015

  Poetry

  Annie Barrows, book quotes, books, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Donnat Tartt, Gabrielle Zevin, George Eliot, great quotes, Iris Murdoch, Kate Forsyth, Malala Yousafzai, Mary Ann Shaffer, Maya Angelou, quotes about stories, Reading, Renee Ahdieh, Top Ten Tuesday

  Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic was to pick some of our favorite quotes from books we’ve read this year. So I went back through some of the books I read this year, and here’s what I came up with. Some books…