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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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Welcome aboard, I'm Natalie! I'm 37, married to a dream boat, and live in New Jersey. It's all about books here! I read, recommend, review, and revel in them. Have a book you'd like me to review? Visit my Review Policy for details. Want to drop me a line? February 9, 2012
The Girl with the Crooked Nose
by Ted Botha
courtesy of Penguin Publishers
February 25, 2012
The Book Club Cookbook
by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp
courtesy of Tarcher Publishers (Penguin USA)
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