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My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life by Ruth Reichl
A fascinating view into the everyday life of a legendary foodie. I aspire to be this natural in the kitchen – but it’s highly unlikely. #25wordbookreviews
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Like A House on Fire by Lauren McBrayer
More of a romance than I expected but still a delightfully engaging read that felt like Bridges of Madison County set in 2019 San Francisco. #25wordbookreview
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Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
This book surprised me. It starts out as a typical suburban drama but then all of the sudden turns magical, in the best possible way. #25wordbookreviews
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Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
Traveling actors and musicians face a stark post-apocalyptic world head-on with their art because, according to their favorite Star Trek quote, Survival is not sufficient. #25wordbookreviews (amzn link)
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Top 10 Books of 2022
I >>>just<<< made my goal of reading 52 books this year, finishing the last page of the last book as the sun went down on December 31. It was a pretty good year of reading — so many good thick novels that exceeded my expectations. Here they are, my top ten for the year:
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2022 Year in Review
I thought that this year’s list would be hard to put together. It felt like it had been another hard year. Perhaps having been laid out with RSV for the past few weeks put me in an undeserved funk because once I wrote the list, it’s obvious that 2022 was actually a great fucking year.
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2022 Goals and Resolutions
I am a real nerd when it comes to New Year’s resolutions and after a couple of years of keeping to really basic More/Less drawings, I’m back to more rigorous planning for 2022. I think it’s because I’m starting to feel ever so slightly >hopeful<. Hopeful that these terrible pandemic years are coming to an […]
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Input versus Output
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft November is traditionally a month of me trying to sit down and write some more. This is mostly because of Nanowrimo, which I’ve attempted […]
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NYT on Digital Commonplace Books
I just noticed a piece that the New York Times published back in February on creating digital commonplace books. It’s not very good, or thorough, but I like it whenever the topic comes up, as I think it’s a really underappreciated idea. In short, the author defines what commonplace books are, provides some links to […]
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Paper Cutting
Last week, my husband and I took an → in-person ← paper cutting class at the Nordic Heritage Museum. It was the first time we’ve gone on something approaching a real date since the pandemic started 19 months ago. It was taught by the lovely Anna Brones, a local artist I follow on Instagram, and […]
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