Books and Recipes

The American Library Association’s Banned Book Week starts this coming Sunday, September 27, and runs through October 3, 2020. This annual event celebrates the freedom …

Truths I Never Told You is the second book by Kelly Rimmer I have read this year. The first was The Things We Cannot Say. …

The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman is a haunting story about the Holocaust that is mixed with Jewish mysticism. The story follows the …

The Finn Chronicles: Year One: A Dog’s Reports from the Front Lines of Hooman Rescue as transcribed by Gwen Romack is a humorous account of …

I highly recommend The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. This is my book club’s September 2020 selection. I can’t wait to …

Many books have been banned on the basis that there are discussions of alcohol. Examples include Animal Farm , The Absolutely True Diary of a …

Patrick Walsh, the single father in the novel Truths I Never Told You, loved to bake apple cakes. It was comfort food for the family. …

The World That We Knew takes place in France. Ava, the golem in the story quickly learns to make hardship soup out of the few …

In The Finn Chronicles: Year One: A dog’s reports from the front lines of hooman rescue we learn that Finn loves peanut butter and bacon. …

In the novel The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek there is mention of the Pie Bake Dance held the first Friday in June. This was …