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I am a born and bred southerner and recent transplant to the Midwest. I read because I want to, because I NEED to, and because I'm possibly ignoring the frigid temperatures. Until spring, and then I may read outside. I also enjoy cooking, witty banter, and cheese. All the cheese.

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“I’m dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.”

Death Masks (The Dresden Files #5) by Jim Butcher

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I feel like I’ve probably mentioned this in all of my previous reviews of this series but I’m going to mention it again right out of the gate: this book is read by James Marsters, i.e., Spike from Buffy, and he IS Harry Dresden, a delicious and perfect choice for the browbeaten, sarcastic, hapless, chauvinistic wizard. And that is what Harry is. I’ve scanned some reviews that are like, “ugh, when will Harry learn” and “he’s such a chauvinist” and well yes. But that’s the […]

“It’s not natural for women to fight.” “It’s not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

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Apparently there is a book blurb that refers to this book as “Game of Thrones meets Ocean’s Eleven.” I get a little hesitant and skeptical when books are presented in contrast with other popular things, mostly I think because someone once told me I’d like Twilight because it was like “Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” NO. FALSE. HOW DARE YOU. So you can see where I’d be a little scarred by pop culture comparisons. That said, the Thrones meets Eleven analogy is much […]

“It’s still true”

Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt

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In the early pandemic times, when I had that “new pandemic energy,” I started reading the first books of The Babysitter’s Club series on Facebook live, adding in my own color commentary. It was a hit, I mean TENS of people tuned in (heh). Like a lot of new quirky pandemic hobbies (I’m looking at you, sourdough starter) it soon lost it’s luster and I only made it like 2 and a half books in, and I stowed the books on my book shelf in […]

File this under “things I’d never thought about but found very interesting.”

The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas by Adrian Miller

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The Slow Food North Louisiana book club was having its inaugural meeting, I mean, no time like pandemic-time for a virtual book group, and this was their first pick, in honor of Black History Month. Quick FYI, “Slow Food” is an International Movement, started in the 1960s in Italy, as sort of a direct response to the commercialization and “fast food-ing” of our culture: it is about celebrating food that is good, clean and fair. It isn’t about healthy or health foods, but about knowing […]

At least it wasn’t Nickelback

Axiom's End (Noumena, #1) by Lindsay Ellis

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Lindsay Ellis’ debut novel is a doozy. Set in the recent past in 2007 she situates this science fiction novel in Bush’s America, as a whistleblower drops the knowledge bomb that we have made first contact with an alien species. Have we? Is it a hoax? No one is quite sure. The government disavows knowledge, but rather than be situated as your standard action-oriented alien adventure, we meet Cora, the estranged teenaged daughter of said whistleblower who is in the middle of the action, whether […]



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