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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 [...]
Since receiving On a Stick! by Matt Armendariz, Anthony and I have been salivating over the recipes–rubbing our hands together and laughing maniacally at the notion of fried spaghetti and meatballs or pineapple wrapped in funnel cake on a stick. Matt’s food blog, Matt Bites, is a favorite of mine, and his photos are gorgeous! [...]
My friend GK, an ex-pat of the East Coast, has been living in San Francisco for more than a decade and always seems to have the inside track to cool and hipster-ish things. She emailed me last Friday about a cool company started by a friend of a friend and knew it would be right [...]
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 [...]
Title: Pretty: A Novel Author: Jillian Lauren Genre/Pages: Fiction/288 Publisher: Plume Release Date: August 30, 2011 Rating: 1 bookmark (not my cup of cocoa) Source: Publisher Natalie’s One-Sentence Synopsis: Beth “Bebe” Baker hops a bus out of Toledo bound for California, pinning her salvation on Aaron, a fledgling musician, who drags her down into the primordial [...]
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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