Saturday Snapshot: And Away We Go

I've got everything I need for the adventure!

Special thanks to my pal Vi at Serendipity Reviews for forwarding along my journals from UK’s Paperchase.  I used to buy them at Borders but had to get creative to replenish my supply. Saturday Snapshot is graciously hosted by Alyce of At Home With Books.

Book Merchandise: Do You Buy It?

Action Figures and image via NECA Entertainment

When the first Harry Potter movie was released, a wave of movie-related merchandise rolled into local retailers, and I was swept up in the Potter-mania.  My collection grew to include a Bertie Botts Every Flavor Bean cookie jar, a snow globe, and several HP Christmas ornaments.  Before this, I’d never owned any book-related merchandise. Last [...]

Featured Book: The Cookiepedia by Stacy Adimando

Anyone want a cookie (at 8:30am)? (photo credit: NAM, 2011)

Title: The Cookiepedia: Mixing, Baking, and Reinventing the Classics Author: Stacy Adimando (photos by Tara Striano) Genre/Pages: Cookbook/160 Publisher: Quirk Books Release Date: September 6, 2011 Source: Publisher From the indie publisher who brought us Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children comes a dedicated cookie cookbook that will set [...]

I’m Just Wild About Harry…

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Since seeing Daniel Radcliffe on Broadway last month, I’ve been on a bit of a Harry Potter kick.  My summer vacation from school is waning, and I’m wrapping it up with a Potter marathon.  What could be better than that? It’s been a while since I reread any of the series, and I fell off [...]

Review: Last Night at Chateau Marmont by Lauren Weisberger

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Title: Last Night at Chateau Marmont Author: Lauren Weisberger Genre/Pages: Fiction/384 Publisher: Washington Square Press (div. of Simon & Schuster) Release Date: June 14, 2011 (paperback) Rating: 2.5 Bookmarks (borrow it) Source: publisher Natalie’s One-Sentence Synopsis:  From the author of The Devil Wears Prada comes another ‘behind-the-scenes’-style novel–the music industry this time around–that felt flat and [...]