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Rambling around the internet; helping niblings maneuver through college, learn their ABC's and deal with middle school (usually all on the same day); reading to remain alive.

NTE's Reviews:

“Had me in the first half, I’m not going to lie..”

Perils of Pleasure by Julie Anne Long

Like No Other Lover by Julie Anne Long

Since the Surrender by Julie Anne Long

I Kissed An Earl by Julie Anne Long

What I Did for A Duke by Julie Anne Long

May 30, 2025 by NTE 3 Comments

Making my way through the Pennyroyal Green series by Julie Anne Long, but dependent upon the library, so, while I’ve read these all this year, they weren’t exactly in order.  Luckily, I’ve been keeping notes. Now that the top five are covered, I figured I’d put out this half of the reviews. Spoilers abound! Perils of Pleasure – Colin Eversea is trouble – but it’s rogue-ish trouble, typically – And yet, we find our hero headed for the hangman’s noose, literally, about to hang for a […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: I Kissed An Earl, Julie Anne Long, Like No Other, Pennyroyal Green, Perils of Pleasure Lover, Since the Surrender, What I Did for a Duke

NTE's CBR17 Review No:18 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Romance · Tags: I Kissed An Earl, Julie Anne Long, Like No Other, Pennyroyal Green, Perils of Pleasure Lover, Since the Surrender, What I Did for a Duke ·
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Royally Pucked

I do like the PWHL games, though, in my own defense.

The Pilot & The Puck-Up by Pippa Grant

Royally Pucked by Pippa Grant

Beauty & The Beefcake by Pippa Grant

Charming as Puck by Pippa Grant

I Pucking Love You by Pippa Grant

April 26, 2025 by NTE Leave a Comment

My uncle is watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs.  They are endless and eternal, seemingly.  But I love my uncle, and he’s letting me stay with him, & there’s only one tv in the whole house. (Actual, unbelievable facts in the year of our lord 2025.) So I am also ‘watching’ the Stanley Cup Playoffs. I have a sports aversion: It comes from years of being tortured by sports equipment of every shape, size, heft, weight, length & form. If there is a ball in a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Sports Tagged With: Beauty and the Beefcake, Charming as Puck, copper valley thrusters, hockey, I Pucking Love You, pilot and the puckup, Pippa Grant, Royally pucked

NTE's CBR17 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Sports · Tags: Beauty and the Beefcake, Charming as Puck, copper valley thrusters, hockey, I Pucking Love You, pilot and the puckup, Pippa Grant, Royally pucked ·
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“…and then I leave the door open, so I’ll be ready when the luck happens.”

Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

April 4, 2025 by NTE 2 Comments

  Up next in the parade of memoirs, mostly of women, we come to Ina Garten’s Be Ready When the Luck Happens.  Off the top, I’m going to say that I knew very little about Garten, pre-reading: I knew she was called the Barefoot Contessa, and that she had a cooking show that occasionally made it into my viewing queue, and that she is a quality meme format (‘store bought is fine’), but that was about all. As it happens? I was missing out. Because Garten […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food Tagged With: be ready when luck happens, cookbook, humor, Ina Garten, life philosophies, memes

NTE's CBR17 Review No:8 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food · Tags: be ready when luck happens, cookbook, humor, Ina Garten, life philosophies, memes ·
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“Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything.”

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron

I Remember Nothing & Other Reflections by Nora Ephron

April 4, 2025 by NTE Leave a Comment

Reading makes me feel I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, audiobook, humor, i feel bad about my neck, I remember nothing, Nora ephron

NTE's CBR17 Review No:7 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, audiobook, humor, i feel bad about my neck, I remember nothing, Nora ephron ·
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Book Cover, Stanley Tucci in black & white facing camera, title & author's name visible

“Actually,” Stacy says, “Stanley Tucci is everyone’s type.” I nod in solidarity. “Amen.”

What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci

Taste: My Life in Food by Stanley Tucci

March 31, 2025 by NTE 1 Comment

The title quote is from Julie Murphy’s , If the Shoe Fits, which I think marks the first time I’m using a pull quote for a review that is not from either of the actual books I am reviewing, but I can’t really help it when someone else has communicated the truth so clearly.  In What I Ate in One Year, speaking about his friend & fellow actor Andrew Scott, Stanley Tucci muses “Can someone be too good at something? I mean, so good, that everyone else […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #food, eating, Stanley Tucci, taste, What I Ate in One Year

NTE's CBR17 Review No:5 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #food, eating, Stanley Tucci, taste, What I Ate in One Year ·
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So glad I made it past the late 90s, I would’ve been an embarrassing ghost then.

Grave Expectations by Alice Bell

The Crime Brulee Bake Off by Rebecca Connolly

March 15, 2025 by NTE Leave a Comment

You ever just start scrolling down your library’s “available now” page, even though you have eleventy-seventy thousand books in your TBR mountain? Yeah, me too. And that’s how I wandered into two pretty good, but out of my usual genre, cozy-ish mysteries that I came here to recommend. They’re both debut novels, and I read them on audio – They have the same narrator, Sophie Roberts, who did such a great job w/The Crime Brulee Bake Off, and that I clicked her name to see […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Alice Bell, baking show, cozy, crime brulee bake off, England, Grave Expectations, mystery, rebecca connolly

NTE's CBR17 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Alice Bell, baking show, cozy, crime brulee bake off, England, Grave Expectations, mystery, rebecca connolly ·
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