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Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield

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Another square down, and another trip down (also up, under, and through) the Thames (looking at you, Rivers of London). The Thames is the titular river of Once Upon a River another story about telling stories from Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale). A mysterious man and a young girl come crashing through the doors of The Swan, an inn on the river that is well known for it’s story and for it’s story tellers. The man is grievously injured; the girl is stone dead. The […]

Gardens in pots

Container Theme Gardens by Nancy J. Ondra

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I’m not much of a gardener. I grew up with a garden in the back yard, but I think that because that was all in a very different climate than where I now live, that I no longer have a good grasp on the details of how to work with what when etc. I have managed a few things though, including several pots around my front steps. That’s why I was hoping that Container Theme Gardens would be something I could use in a the […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]



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