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When Your Sweet Tooth Comes Calling

Doughnuts: 90 Simple and Delicious Recipes to Make at Home by Lara Ferroni

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Doughnuts: 90 Simple and Delicious Recipes to Make at Home by Lara Ferroni My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Doughnuts” is a great resource for those of you who want to dabble in making your own delicious breakfast pastries. Lara Ferroni breaks the process down in a very user friendly manner with a lot of make-it-at-home ingredients. Ms. Ferroni starts the book with the basics, the doughs. Included are recipes for raised, cake, and some international varieties. The raised and cake varieties also include gluten-free, […]

What Pre-Columbian Food Looks Like

The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman

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The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen is part memoir, part cookbook, part promotion for indigenous chefs and food. Chef Sean Sherman is a member of the Oglala Sioux nation and is working to revive indigenous foods, ingredients, and methods of preparing food. He brings his skills learned working as a chef at other restaurants to create some delicious recipes. I’m ignorant when it comes to indigenous foods. I mentioned this sad fact […]

This Book Should Be More Prominent Than It Is

The Grass Dancer by Susan Power

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The Grass Dancer by Susan Power My rating: 5 of 5 stars Sadly, I had never heard of Susan Power until a few years ago when I came across her name in the American literature textbook that I teach from. She was the mentor author for the opening unit of the text and I put “The Grass Dancer” down to read it. I’ve sadly not read a lot of literature written by Native American authors and that’s something I’ve worked to rectify. “The Grass Dancer” […]

When You Literally Get Sucked Into a Story

The Forbidden Library by Django Wexler

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The Forbidden Library by Django Wexler My rating: 4 of 5 stars “The Forbidden Library” is a quasi-steampunk, fantasy novel. Alice discovers that her world isn’t what it seems when she happens to overhear and see her father talking with a fairy. This leads to some circumstances that throws her world upside down. She ends up living with her “uncle” Geryon who has a library that she’s not allowed to visit unless she accompanied by Geryon. Of course she wants to discover the place for […]

Fish and Family Stink after Three Days; After Seven They’re Toxic

Seven Days of Us by Francesca HOrnak

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Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Seven Days of Us” is a family drama taking place over…you guessed it…seven days. Emma and Andrew Birch are landed gentry who go to Emma’s ancestral home (apparently it is a small country home, but I question the term “small”) for Christmas each year. This year is special because Olivia, the eldest Birch daughter, is coming home from being stationed in West Africa to fight the Hague virus aka Ebola. They all […]

The Importance of Stories

An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine

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An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine My rating: 5 of 5 stars “An Unnecessary Woman” is the stream-of-consciousness story of Aaliyah. We first meet in her twilight years. She’s old enough to tell us the raucous history of Lebanon while not so old that there’s no new adventures on her horizon. She was married off young to a guy who didn’t know how to be a husband. He divorces her and she ends up keeping the apartment. In the interim she works in a bookstore […]



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