Tag: The Luminaries

• Baking for Bookworms: Sugared Biscuits from Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries

  July 21, 2015

  Baking for Bookworms

  baking for bookworms, cookie recipes, dessert, Eleanor Catton, sugar cookies, sugared biscuits, The Luminaries

  There’s not much food mentioned in The Luminaries, and most of it revolves around tea, a tradition observed even in the sparse, rustic setting of gold rush era New Zealand. The rest of the food mentioned is alternatively gruel type porridge dishes and various camp stews, neither of which is as appealing as a cookie… The…

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #25: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

  June 10, 2015

  Reading Challenge

  Eleanor Catton, historical fiction, literature, reading challenge, The Luminaries, women writers

  I don’t know what I expected this book to be when I picked it up. I read part of the New York Times book review, enough to be interested, and I added it to my to-read list. I never expected to be so enchanted with this book. Twenty pages in, and I still had no…