Brief thoughts on all 12 books I read this month. Continue reading
Author Archives: Rachel
The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley
I have followed the author of The Survivalists on Twitter for years and was really excited about the book. I suggested it to several library systems to buy. I enjoyed her Grub Street Diet which I read after the book and filled in some blanks for me. I too grew up eating seasonally because it … Continue reading
What I Read in January 2023
Brief thoughts on all 22 books I read this month. Continue reading
How to Survive Everything: A Novel by Ewan Morrison
As you may have noticed I rarely read books by men. It is books like How to Survive Everything by Ewan Morrison that remind me why. Continue reading
Prom Mom by Laura Lippman
I’m going to start by saying that Prom Mom doesn’t come out until July but I was lucky enough to get an ARC on Netgalley. I wanted to write this while the book was fresh in my mind–as soon it was downloaded I started reading. Continue reading
food / food writing / nonfiction / review
Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus
I was so excited to read Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus that I stopped what I was doing to read the second I got the notification from Netgalley that I got the galley. I had been looking forward to this book since I first saw her tweet about the deal. Continue reading
What I read in December
Brief thoughts on all the books I read this month! Continue reading
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
Rachel Reads Books 