Miss me? Well... After a 3 year blogging hiatus I've started a new blog called Brief Book Reviews . In January I set a goal...

Last night I finished Jo Baker's intensely readable and richly detailed novel Longbourn . In it, Baker elegantly refocuses the len...

Enchanted Forest by Elsa Mora Happy weekend, friends! Vegan Mint Brownie Ice Cream London Growing . This is FASCINATING. ( Maserati...

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Elise Joy's The Best is Yet to Come It's Friday which means it is homemade pizza night at our house; the pizza dough is rising ...

Uta Barth, Deep Blue Day Happy Friday! A few links to kick off the weekend... Looks like I'm dairy-free for the long hau...

Read instead ... screen print from an original watercolor painting by BOOK/SHOP founder Erik Heywood BOOK/SHOP is an intimate, well-cu...

The Manhattan Dolls My sister got married on Monday! To help the newlyweds celebrate we surprised them with a "singing telegram...

Shayna recently introduced me to Creative Action Network , "a marketplace for original, visual, meaningful work, crowdsourced from a ...

The Goldfinch ... holy shit. I savored the last 20 pages of pure writing gold, dog-earring page after page with passages to revisit and s...

Hello to December, one of my favorite months of the year. I love the holidays: the chill in the air, the smell of pine needles, baking, ...

I love the collision of visuals and information so it's no wonder that one of my favorite books at the moment is this : The Best Am...

Sheeps by Meagan Donegan I can't wait to read the new Donna Tartt . Cookies ! Shayna texted me about these yesterday and St...

YUM. I turn 35 in November. Gah! I think I'm going to make this ice cream cake to celebrate. Nothing says happy birthday like an ...

Walloon Lake, Michigan My dear friend Melissa created an super awesome meal planning app called 5 Plates ! The app delivers 5 dinner re...

Have you seen the photos of this abandoned Walmart turned library in McAllen Texas? It's now the largest single floor library in the...

Our plum tree is producing more fruit than we can manage to eat, so this week I made this super tasty plum tart . I used half whole wheat...

The Interestings , more than any book I've read in the last year, really stuck with me. I bring it up often, with anyone who will li...

And now for more book talk... We made a trip to the bookstore on Saturday to stock up on new books. I'm on a book bender at the mome...

Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings [hat tip to Melissa for the recommendation] gets my vote for one of the best books of the year. Kat...