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Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus
food / food writing / nonfiction / review

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus

Posted on January 17, 2023 by Rachel • 1 Comment

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 →

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption by Katy Kelleher
nonfiction / review

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption by Katy Kelleher

Posted on December 28, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

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 →

Recipe for Disaster: 40 Superstar Stories of Sustenance and Survival edited by Alison Riley
essays / food / food writing

Recipe for Disaster: 40 Superstar Stories of Sustenance and Survival edited by Alison Riley

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

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 →

Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool by Clara Parkes
crafts / nonfiction / review

Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool by Clara Parkes

Posted on December 2, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

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 →

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry
memoir / review

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry

Posted on November 9, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

I didn’t read her first book until right before I picked this one up. As I read it, I thought she really should have made it a memoir about how she became obsessed with Adan Syed during what seemed like many low points during her life. She talked a lot about her personal life in … Continue reading →

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
memoir / review

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

I will say up front I never really watched Friends, have no real interest in Friends, and even when it was first airing I felt it was an oddly retrograde throwback show to an imaginary all-white NYC where no one really had to work to live. That said, it was impossible to avoid reading about … Continue reading →

Weaving Rag Rugs: A Women’s Craft in Western Maryland by Geraldine Niva Johnson
crafts / nonfiction / review

Weaving Rag Rugs: A Women’s Craft in Western Maryland by Geraldine Niva Johnson

Posted on October 24, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

I enjoyed Weaving Rag Rugs, I think it was her PhD thesis, but I never felt like she answered why rag rug weaving has/had such a stronghold in this particular county in Maryland. Or if it’s not more popular there than in other areas, why chose to focus here? I did get a feel of … Continue reading →

The Year of the Horses: A Memoir by Courtney Maum
memoir / review

The Year of the Horses: A Memoir by Courtney Maum

Posted on September 15, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

I was never a horse girl but I love reading books about people and niche interests. I felt like this was a little flat. Despite her talks about therapy, I felt like there was very little introspection. How did she grow up to be a fatphobic woman with an eating disorder, depression, stagnant marriage who … Continue reading →

Dear Fran, Love Dulcie: Life and Death in the Hills and Hollows of Bygone Australia published by Victoria Twead
letters / review

Dear Fran, Love Dulcie: Life and Death in the Hills and Hollows of Bygone Australia published by Victoria Twead

Posted on August 17, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

This was a wild ride. Someone on a message board had said they read it and I was intrigued because I watch and read a lot of Australian content but it’s all fictional. I thought it would be interesting to see what life was really like back in rural Australia 70 or so years ago. … Continue reading →

This Is Not a Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan
memoir / review

This Is Not a Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan

Posted on July 22, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

This Is Not a Pity Memoir was, instead, a slightly meandering but interesting memoir. I truly don’t know how she managed to produce and write a tv show during all this. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have your partner come out of a coma and insist that you are an imposter. … Continue reading →

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