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Osso Buco, You Say? Jambalaya? Why, yes!

My Year Abroad by Chang-Rae Lee

December 10, 2024 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

This book seemed to me, like a mashup of two separate stories – both starring the same protagonist, but in very different settings and genres. One of them I was enjoying very much initially but by the end, it was definitely heading off the rails.  The other started off fairly nondescript, but then started to find its mojo, and I ended up liking that one very much.  Weird. Our hero, Tiller, is a bored college student from New Jersey.  He gets swept up by a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Asian travels, Chang-rae Lee, Cooking videos, food porn, karaoke, Mentor relationship, New England backyard pop-ups, Relatable kid on a mission

elderberrywine's CBR16 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Asian travels, Chang-rae Lee, Cooking videos, food porn, karaoke, Mentor relationship, New England backyard pop-ups, Relatable kid on a mission ·
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An Unexpected Delight

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

August 23, 2022 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

I am going the confess here that I have been dragging my feet a little bit when it came to writing this review for this book. Light From Uncommon Stars was actually the first of the Hugo Best Novel Nominees that I read when the voting packet was first made available, and if I didn’t scrunch up and focus on my resolve this afternoon, it would have been the last one I wrote about.  This is one of the most unusual speculative fiction books I […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, cbr14bingo, Donut, Faust, food porn, Ryka Aoki, Speculative Fiction

LittlePlat's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, cbr14bingo, Donut, Faust, food porn, Ryka Aoki, Speculative Fiction ·
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Bon Appétit!

October 12, 2017 by PattyKates 4 Comments

Intro Katie: As is so often the case, Patty messaged me and said I needed to read The Opposite of You by Rachel Higginson. You can imagine my skepticism at this point. Then she added the deciding words: it’s cheap and Mariana Zapata. Patty: Have a little faith. I stumble upon decent reads every once in a while. A great while. My advice isn’t all bad… The reference to Mariana Zapata came into play because though we adore her, she tends to be a little […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: food porn, foodies, katie71483, PattyKates, Rachel Higginson, The Opposite of You, the other courtney

PattyKates's CBR9 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: food porn, foodies, katie71483, PattyKates, Rachel Higginson, The Opposite of You, the other courtney ·
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