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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn is another one of those books that I knew I had to read when I stumbled across it in a bookstore. [I promise, I don't do this with everything I [...]

Quickly, before I disappear again: next book!
I was asked to review a copy of Finding Happiness: Monastic Steps for a Fulfilling Life by Abbot Christopher Jamison, and though I would label myself as more spiritual than religious, I really did enjoy reading this book and contemplating my own reaction to it.
Abbot Christopher begins his book [...]

One of my favorite books that I’ve read so far this month is Paris To the Moon by Adam Gopnik. As a bit of a Francophile, my want went off in my head as soon as I saw it in the store quite some time ago.
Paris To the Moon isn’t exactly a quick, easy read, [...]

And… I’m back! Work is slowly taking over my life, so not much time for reviewing, but I’m still managing to set aside plenty for reading. Hopefully I’ll be able to go on a massive posting spree and get all caught up soon.
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is one of those novels that [...]

This weekend, I also finished Dream When You’re Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg, a story about three sisters doing their best to survive being left at home during World War II. Kitty, the eldest, writes to her steady boyfriend, Julian, while her sister Louise writes to Julian’s best friend Michael, who proposed just as he [...]