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You Don’t Need a Pasta Machine

American Sfoglino: A Masterclass in Handmade Pasta by Evan Funke, Katie Parla, Eric Wolfanger

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Evan Funke and Katie Parla’s American Sfoglino: A Masterclass in Handmade Pasta is a book you will want to have as a hardcopy and maybe also as an ebook. It is an aspirational cookbook, with it’s beautiful photography. If you aspire to make pasta at home without a pasta maker, it is also a very practical cookbook. Through photography and description, Funke shows how to make some of the master doughs and pasta shapes of Bologna. If all you want to do is dream and look at beautiful pictures of food, this book has you covered too. Funke is a […]

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8/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:60 |

Look At This Photograph!

Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand

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Who knew the world of photojournalism was so fraught with peril!? This book sucked me in, which I did not expect at all. I saw this on a list of suggested books for Veronica Mars fans, perhaps because both protagonists are cynical, blonde women? But while Veronica has her issues, she has nothing on Cass Neary. I don’t know really how to describe this. Yes it is a murder mystery but it’s really more of a thriller, involving a washed up, drug addled photographer sent from Manhattan to remote Main to track down a famously reclusive photographer. Wouldn’t be my bag, except […]

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8/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:74 |

Drug Trip or Wacky Plot….Who Can Say?

Remedia: A Picaresque by Micahel Joyce

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I was asked to read this book for a lit mag and do a review of it. The last several books I’ve done for them have been pretty awesome, so I was optimistic going into this one. It’s a picaresque style novel, which I’ve never encountered before, and I had high hopes that I would enjoy this new type of genre. But, alas, I’ve DNFed this one at page 256 because I just can’t anymore with the crazitude. Remedia starts out like it’s going to be interesting, with a 1st person narrator (who’s name I truly don’t remember….maybe he’s never […]

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4/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

Do it for the photo, for the art, for the creativity–but never for the likes.

Hashtag Authentic: Finding creativity and building community on Instagram and beyond by Sara Tasker

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I tend to hang out in relatively niche corners of Instagram. As such, I came to Hashtag Authentic completely unaware of Sara Tasker and her Instagram feed. Never heard of her, and her images don’t show up in my Explore feed. But the description of Tasker as an “Instagram coach” twigged my curiosity enough to make me want to read this. What this book is: A gorgeous primer on the hows and whys of Instagram. Tasker teaches basic lessons in photography for social media. (If you’re familiar with how to use a camera–if you already know what an f stop […]

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2/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

I Miss Obama

Obama: An Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza

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Best for: Anyone who wants to be reminded of what it’s like to have a compassionate, intelligent person as US President. In a nutshell: Official White House Photographer Pete Souza shares a history of the Obama Presidency in photos and text. Line that sticks with me: The very last photo, of President Obama looking at the White House from Executive (formerly Marine) One, made me tear up. Why I chose it: My stepmother-in-law gifted my husband and I this massive book for Christmas. We’re moving overseas in less than two weeks but I don’t even care that we now have […]

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12/29/2017 's CBR9 Review No:101 |

Stunning photo project or exploitation?

The Oxford Project by Peter Feldstein

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The premise of The Oxford Project is simple, and I suspect it’s one that you’ll either get or really not get. In 1984, Peter Feldstein photographed every resident of Oxford, Iowa (I can’t recall if he ended up photographing every single resident, but if not it was extremely close). The photographs are simple and stark, with people rarely posing but just standing frankly in front of the camera. Sometimes they’re accompanied by a bicycle, a baby, a gun, a lion. In 2004, he went back to photograph them all again. This time he took Stephen G. Bloom and got brief […]

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6/19/2017 's CBR9 Review No:18 |

Half Splash, Twice

Steampunk Tea Party by Jema "Emilly Ladybird" Hewitt

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First, some shameless self-congratulations: Cannonball! I was originally thinking I could only do a half, which I signed up for, but here I am with a full 52! Yay me 🙂 OK, moving on. Steampunk Tea Party is probably the best Christmas present I’ve gotten in a long while. Long Live Book Exchange! It’s part cookbook, part photo book, and part short story collection. Each of the six chapters has a theme with recipes, excerpts from character voices, pictures of characters in elaborate costumes, pictures of recipes, brief info snippets about ingredients or in some cases substitutions, or decorating. It’s […]

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12/28/2016 's CBR8 Review No:52 |

A photo a day keeps a rut away.

The Unforgettable Photograph by George Lange

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  I honestly have no idea why I got this book from the library, but I’m really glad I did! I think I must’ve put it on my to-read list a couple years ago, and once I finally got it, it languished in my library pile for ages. I’ve been taking pictures since I could pick up a camera – my mom, grandfather, and godfather are/were truly incredible photographers. I’ve been featured in two art galleries (#humblebrag) I have a little side business doing family photography, so it’s not like I need to know how to take a photograph. I […]

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8/15/2016 's CBR8 Review No:28 |


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