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Monthly Archives: December 2022
fiction / review / time travel
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
The year is almost over and I thought I’d end on a high note and read the earlier book of an author who wrote a book that landed on my top books for the year list. I wouldn’t say her more recent book Acts of Violets was great literature and a true classic but it … Continue reading
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption by Katy Kelleher
I was so excited to read this book. It sounded tailor made for me and I’ve followed the author online for a long time. I love the history of objects and reading about our personal connections to them. I just didn’t really enjoy it. I wish she had decided to write a memoir about her … Continue reading
essays / food / food writing
Recipe for Disaster: 40 Superstar Stories of Sustenance and Survival edited by Alison Riley
Honestly, this was kind of a disaster of a book. It felt like it was cobbled together at the last minute and was written largely by people who didn’t seem to know what the theme was or care about it at all. One or two essays were okay but largely they were a bunch of … Continue reading
crafts / nonfiction / review
Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool by Clara Parkes
Vanishing Fleece was fairly interesting but I can’t get over that she built a career of writing about yarn but never, until this book, knew much about how it was made? I still don’t know how much she knows, a lot of the details are a little glossed over—she talks about things like ply, staple … Continue reading
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