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Words to cook by

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird. Gladys Taber

An Irish Blessing

Warm be the love that surrounds you,

Good be your friends, and true,

Constant be hope and promise,

Useful the work you do,

Close be your family around you,

Good health be yours day by day,

Long be the life you're living,

And full of much joy on the way.

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Places I love to visit (a list in progress)

The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader

Weekend Cooking: What We Ate on Holidays - South Australia - We went on a road trip to South Australia over the Christmas/New Year period. The main reason was because my brother wanted to host Christmas, which I p...
5 hours ago
A Fondness For Reading

A Tony Hillerman January - Tony Hillerman’s Navajo mystery series has long been a favorite of mine. I’ve reread the eighteen novels numerous times, and a few years ago, I gave my col...
5 hours ago
ahsweetmysteryblog

THE OL’ SCRATCH AND BITE: The Case of the Velvet Claws - And so our Mason Menagerie begins . . . not with any specific animal but with the 1933 “birth” of attorney Perry Mason in a case that feels savage from sta...
6 hours ago
Mystica

When She’s Gone by Rea Frey - Cora was a victim of a kidnapping and the perpetrators were never caught. She was an Olympic gymnast hopeful and the kidnapping just before the final ...
8 hours ago
'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

Forgotten Book - Death at the Dance - *Death at the Dance*, which dates from 1952, is apparently one of the rarest of the books that Cecil John Street wrote under the name John Rhode. So I c...
9 hours ago
Musings

Tiffany and Keola Through the Years - An article in the New York Times caught my eye one morning. It was about a photographer who started taking photos every year for 40 years of 4 sisters. ...
11 hours ago
sprite writes

back home, lots of volleyball together, and a friend joins the team - Three beautiful things from my past week: 1. Rudi returned home after spending a week of caregiving. The cats and I are very glad to have him back. 2. Ch...
12 hours ago
Codlinsandcream2

Birdsong - For a little while yesterday, just a little while, with the sun out, it felt like spring. I wasn't out in it long as I had to drive to Tam's, and it to...
13 hours ago
Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings

“…the muffled murmur of the fog-blanketed city…” @BL_Publishing @medwardsbooks #LondonParticular - The end of December 2024 really was a period of some wonderful comfort reading; frankly, I was ready for it after a busy time at work during the month! Tha...
14 hours ago
Mysteries Ahoy!

Room to Swing by Ed Lacy - About the only thing I knew about Ed Lacy's novel was its historic status. The book was not only an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel, it is described as t...
15 hours ago
Joy's Book Blog

The White Lady #BookReview #BriFri - Welcome to British Isles Friday! British Isles Friday is a weekly event for sharing all things British and Irish — reviews, photos, opinions, trip reports,...
15 hours ago
Musings of a Bookish Kitty

Where Is Your Bookmark: My Bookish Mewsings on Schooled in Murder & Other Friday Fun - This week I finished reading Victoria Gilbert's *Schooled in Murder *and wanted to share my thoughts on the book along with a of couple excerpts with you. ...
17 hours ago
Leaves & Pages

Mistaken Identities: The Goodbye Look by Ross Macdonald (1969) - The Goodbye Look by Ross Macdonald ~ 1969. This edition: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2000. Softcover. 243 pages. The sins of the mothers and fathers are fr...
1 day ago
Eagleton Notes

The Middle of the Night - Why is everything so much more concerning if one wakes up in the middle of the night? I usually wake in the night these days but it's momentary and I'm b...
1 day ago
Lark Writes...on books and life

Grimm Curiosities by Sharon Lynn Fisher - *First line: *They say York is the most haunted city in England, but I'm probably the only person in it named after a ghost. *The plot: *December 1851....
1 day ago
Coastal Horizons... books, beaches, and backroad adventures

Books Over 400 Pages Read in 2024 - What do you consider a *big *book? Over 400 pages? More than 500? In 2023 I read a dozen books over 400 pages. This past year I read fifteen for a tota...
1 day ago
JacquiWine's Journal

The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick - I have long wanted to try something by Vivian Gornick, the American writer and critic who started her career at the Village Voice in the late 1960s. Since ...
1 day ago
The Passing Tramp

Return within Thirty Days: The Birthday Present (2008), by Barbara Vine - *Ruth Rendell *published 14 *Barbara Vine* novels over nearly three decades between 1986 and 2014. As perhaps can be expected with a highly prolific wri...
1 day ago
Adventures in reading, writing and working from home

Three NetGalley reviews by Ashenden, Trevaldwyn and Su - After swearing off light novels from NetGalley for a while, as I was getting a bit weary of the tropes, even when I tried to choose Own Voices and diverse ...
2 days ago
Staircase Wit

WWW Wednesday – January 15 - *WWW Wednesday* is hosted by Taking on a World of Words. The Three Ws are: *What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do y...
2 days ago
Bitter Tea and Mystery

Short Story Wednesday: "Die Like a Dog" by Rex Stout - I am continuing my reread of Rex Stout's novellas. *"Die Like a Dog"* is a 66-page novella in the Nero Wolfe series. It is one of three stories in *Three...
2 days ago
Readerbuzz

I Discover a New Bookstore in Galveston - My friend, Cindy, and I came out of Taquilo's Tex-Mex with full stomachs, and walked toward the car. "We could stop in the bookstore before we leave," C...
2 days ago
kay's reading life

Waiting on Wednesday - Marble Hall Murders - *'Waiting on Wednesday'* is an event where I feature an upcoming book that I am extra excited about. I used to do this in the past and am making it a ...
2 days ago
bronasbooks.com

Coming Soon: New Australian books to check out - Cathy @746 Books regularly updates her readers about new fiction on the Irish horizon. I really appreciate the heads up and often find myself adding severa...
2 days ago
Birds, Blooms, Books, etc

Books - I've read or listened to a total of three books in 2025 so far. The one I listened to, The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose, was not that great but I felt inv...
2 days ago
Desperate Reader

This Will Be Fun - E. B. Asher - One of the perks of my job is the number of review copies that come my way, and on Friday's there's the extra bonus of Publishers Weekly where we get sen...
3 days ago
Lit and Life

The Antidote by Karen Russell - *The Antidote *by Karen Russell 432 pages Published March 2025 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Source: my copy courtesy of the publisher, through Netgal...
3 days ago
Hotchpot Cafe

Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2025 - My Sign-Up - I'm feeling optimistic today, so I'm not only going to rejoin the Mount TBR Reading Challenge for 2025 but *rejoin at a higher level*. I have failed to ...
4 days ago
From My Mental Library

First Working Week in 2025 - Last week saw me (as well as many other people in my part of the world) returning to work after the Christmas/New Year period. I was ready to pick up nor...
5 days ago
Book Chatter

Sunday Matters: Routines are Good - I’ve had a long, luxurious, lazy vacation, and yes, it was peppered with all of Los Angeles burning. Heartbreaking to see all of the Palisades and Malibu a...
5 days ago
Lakeside Musing

My Year in Books: 2024 Reading Reflections and 2025 Intentions - Hello, friends. I'm finally back in Florida, unpacked, and ready to resume reading and blogging! But before we get much deeper into the New Year, I'd li...
5 days ago
The Book Jotter

Parish Notices - Happy New Year to all my readers. After what has probably been a couple of years of mentioning where I was with this blog and how I have probably for the l...
5 days ago
Reading Matters

‘Bad Cop: Peter Dutton’s Strongman Politics’ by Lech Blaine (Quarterly Essay #93) - Non-fiction – paperback/magazine; Quarterly Essay; 171 pages; March 2024. Peter Dutton, the leader of Australia’s (right-wing) Liberal Party and current Le...
5 days ago
Commonweeder

Snow Coming – Then Going - You can see the snow falling on our house, and on the plants hiding in the snow. The hellebores had grown in front of the wood fence and their leaves are s...
6 days ago
Turn the Page

Reading and Watching - *Reading* / I have been inside reading quite a bit and finished several books, all of which I enjoyed. No DNF books so far 😀. I've joined in for th...
6 days ago
Blue-Hearted Bookworm

Eat, Sleep, Read: Bookish Resolutions for 2025 - I can't decide if I should keep my resolutions manageable this year, or let this be a twelvemonth that I swing for the fences. Maybe a mixture of the...
6 days ago
Northern Reader

The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson – a brilliant novel of the summer of 1919 as women and others encounter a new and complex world - The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson This is a long title for a carefully written and enormously satisfying read. It offers ...
1 week ago
Georgia Girl With An English Heart

With Love and Respect -Jimmy Carter, Our 39th President - The State Funeral was held for Jimmy Carter today at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. I found it to be very moving. In case you missed ...
1 week ago
AnnaBookBel

Two reviews – Complete Opposites – Nunez and Miller - The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez I’m so glad to have fitted this novel in at the end of the year as it elbowed its way into my best of list. Written in much...
1 week ago
Peaceful Reader

My Best Books-2024 edition - I far exceeded my reading goal this year which originally was 65 books and I think the reason I went beyond is because I'm reading more books digitally. ...
1 week ago
Stuck in a Book

A final haul before Project 24 - Have I said on here that I’m doing Project 24 again in 2025? I think I’ll do it ever two or three years, to try and stem the flow of books into my house – ...
1 week ago
The Indextrious Reader

Fitzgerald's Bookshop - The Book Shop / Penelope Fitzgerald Boston: Mariner Books, 1997, c1978. 123 p. Ah, opening a bookshop! Isn't it everyone's dream? (I tried it myself at ...
1 week ago
read_warbler

The Spellshop - Sarah Beth Durst - So, I've now completed my first book for the brand new year of 2025 and it was *The Spellshop* by Sarah Beth Durst. This is one of those hyped up, flavou...
1 week ago
Books to the Ceiling

Accident on the A35 by Graeme Macrae Burnet - So I have now read the second novel in the Inspector Gorski trilogy. I recently reviewed The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, which is the first entry in thi...
1 week ago
Bookgirl's Nightstand

Carry Over - Hello and happy new year! I hope your year has started off great. Did you get lots of Christmas presents (books of course), travel or just hang out with fa...
1 week ago
Lillabullero

Church Fitters ringing a Bell - Never been a great fan of the Bloomsbury Group, but the current exhibition at Milton Keynes Gallery – Vanessa Bell: a world of form and colour – held my in...
1 week ago
Morning's Minion

December 31st, 2024 - A day of wild weather to close out the year. Not so unusual for late December as my 'Memories' feed on Facebook pops up my record of rain and wind usher...
2 weeks ago
Across the Way

December Food Therapy, Blog Therapy - My last post here was in October. It's now three hours until midnight on New Year's Eve and I'm squeezing in one post of 2024 that is basically one m...
2 weeks ago
Dewena's Window

December was a difficult month. - On December 2nd, at 4:30 p.m. we held our precious James Mason in our arms at the vet, unexpectedly having to say goodbye to him. We took him home to h...
2 weeks ago
Comfy House

my last post - Hello! Still having problems logging into Blogger and uploading photos. I have tried *everything *except using a different browser. (I am using Chrome.) So...
3 weeks ago
*Terra Garden*

Merry Christmas to All - Merry Christmas Friends. Isn't Snoopy the cutest?The reason for the season is God's promise to us with the birth of Christ. John 3:16 For God so loved the...
3 weeks ago
down to earth

Enjoying the end of year and what's on the 2025 horizon - Hello! I've come here today to wish you happiness over the Christmas season. Whatever you're doing, I hope you enjoy yourself, take time to review the y...
4 weeks ago
The Brownstone Birding Blog

15 Minute Pink-footed Goose - A birding friend alerted me that there was a Pink-footed Goose spotted near Lyman's Orchard which is right down the road from me. I only had 15 minutes t...
4 weeks ago
Jama's Alphabet Soup

[festive review + recipe] Peter Rabbit: Christmas is Coming (+ a blog break) - Merry, merry, and jingle those bells! Most kids will say that presents are the best part of Christmas, but our mischievous friend Peter Rabbit begs to diff...
4 weeks ago
The Zees Go West

Würzburg, Lower Franconia, Bavaria - Port number 4 of the Grand European Tour on the Viking *Skirnir*, November, 2014 ******* Although Würzburg is a city of 130,000, we only went to the Wü...
5 weeks ago
Book Chase

I'm Still Reading - This Was My October - Despite (or maybe because of) my continuing struggle with the "blahs," reading continues to give me great pleasure when little else does. I may not have t...
2 months ago
"You Might as Well Read"

My (Very) Impressionistic Take on 2024’s Booker - My heavens, dear Readers, can it really have been eighteen months or so since I last posted anything? I can’t imagine that anyone’s still checking the blo...
2 months ago
"By Stargoose And Hanglands"

The Stotfold Shuffle - A little album of scenes that presented themselves at Stotfold Working Steam Weekend last Saturday. And, as when playing an album or playlist of music, it'...
3 months ago
heavenali

Tales from my reading chair – an update. - I disappeared again – I’m sorry. I’m trying to decide whether I’m done with this whole blogging malarky – there are aspects I miss – but I get overwhelmed...
3 months ago
mrs miniver's daughter

- Saddened to hear of the death of the sublime Dame Maggie and so glad that I got to see her last stage performance five years ago.
3 months ago
Someday Cooking

Baked Risotto - 1-1/2 c. Arborio rice 2 15-oz. cans vegetable stock 2 garlic cloves, very finely minced About 1-1/2 c. steamed fresh vegetables (green peas, fresh corn kerne...
4 months ago
Life must be filled up

Our revels now are ended - Hi all - this is Barbara's daughter Alice, also known as *huskyteer*. I'm so sorry to have to tell you that my mum died yesterday. I'll write more in my o...
4 months ago
A Garden Carried in the Pocket

Spirit Crossing by William Kent Krueger - As I mentioned in the previous post, I read *Iron Lake* in 2017 and had every intention of continuing this series by William Kent Kreuger--but didn't. T...
5 months ago
Furrowed Middlebrow

Happy Release Day for FM97! - The long-awaited day has arrived! It's been a while since we've had a Release Day celebration for a new Furrowed Middlebrow title, but as of today Eleano...
5 months ago
Reader in the Wilderness

It's August 1st! So Where Are My 20 Books of Summer? - With only one month left until September 1st, I can truthfully "fess up" that my 20 Books of Summer plans have gone bust. I have been reading, yes. But m...
5 months ago
The Weaver of Grass

Final - Dear Blog friends far and near, After goodness knows how many years of doing this blog I have finally decided to call it a day. As you know I am on 'E...
6 months ago
The Children's War

The Last Hope (A Maggie Hope Mystery #11) by Susan Elia MacNeal - *The Last Hope: A Maggie Hope Mysteryby Susan Elia MacNeal* I'm a little on the OCD side and although I closed The Children's War in December 2023, I fin...
7 months ago
Life on a Small Island

R.I.P. Madam Button - Very sadly I had to say goodbye to Madam Button, my little sea cat, a couple of weeks ago. She was 18 years old, and had a very active life until re...
8 months ago
Gardening On Granite

“Goodbye and Keep Cold” - We in Southern New Hampshire are looking towards temperatures in the 50s for most of the next week after 50s in this one. This will banish the last snow po...
10 months ago
Bag Full Of Books

Introduction to Sally by Elizabeth von Arnim - ‘Introduction to Sally’ by Elizabeth von Arnim is a novel about a young woman of exceptional beauty, who causes a flurry of excitement wherever she goes du...
10 months ago
an adventure in reading

TOP TEN TUESDAY: Best of 2023 - Fiction - Yearly round up of books read last year. I read 124 books (27nonfiction) most audiobooks. I'm going to make a separate post for the nonfiction books and...
1 year ago
Pages From The Book Trunk

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side - I am trying to make up for lost time here! I cannot believe nothing has been posted on the blog since July (apart from Sunday's offering). I had such go...
1 year ago
The New Dharma Bums

Anniversary Day - Thirty-one years ago Roger and I got married in the backyard at the Capitola house. I've posted about it many times here on the blog, how we chose this d...
1 year ago
Real Life Reading

Sacramento Republic vs Miami FC 15/10/2023 Analis Skor - Dalam dunia perjudian daring yang semakin berkembang, situs Megajudi303 telah memberikan sentuhan unik. Yang memadukan pengetahuan dan pengalaman dalam s...
1 year ago
Bibliophile By the Sea

What Happened to Summer? - Hello out there - yes, it's been (4) months since I last posted and I totally missed summer. It wasn't much of a summer - rain, rain, rain and lots o...
1 year ago
Book Snob

A fresh start - You can now find me at https://booksnob.substack.com Please come and join me as I venture into writing again!
1 year ago
Random Jottings

Reading fog - Well I am getting there with the new hip. Walking so much easier. I am doing circuits of our communal gardens using crutches but indoors I am managing with...
1 year ago
A Full-time Life

A few days in Newport - We spent another few days on the Oregon Coast last week. This time we drove North on the Coast Highway to the busy port city of Newport. The c0ast route be...
1 year ago
Cornflower Books

August's books - Seven books, all good. I picked up The Sword in the Stone because Monty Don quotes a beautiful and moving passage from it in Nigel: My family and other dog...
1 year ago
Novel Meals

I’m Not Here - So here’s the issue……….as I mentioned in my previous post – I am not Here anymore but folks are being directed to this blog. I am at Read.Eat.Repeat. My gm...
1 year ago
Cornflower

Folded cuffs - Instead of ribbing for the cuff of a sock, here's a two-colour folded hem. I cast on and put a marker in the first stitch, then knitting every stitch I wor...
1 year ago
A Work in Progress

Thinking about Second Half of 2023 - Hello friends. It has been a long while. Longer than I realized actually. I'm here and reading away, as many books on the go as usual. (Which for me can be...
1 year ago
books as food

"...the time had come for The Cull" - 'On a Saturday in early November, Guido Brunetti, reluctant to go outside, was at home, trying to decide which of his books to remove from the shelves in ...
1 year ago
Beth Fish Reads

In Praise of Home Cooking by Liana Krissoff (Weekend Cooking) - [image: Yellow book cover shows a white bowl with two eggs and a whisk]The new spring cookbooks are starting to roll into the bookstores and into my kitche...
1 year ago
Randomly Reading

January 2023 - I haven’t been blogging much lately and I have decided to take a break from it for a while. I began The Children’s War in 2010 because I had finished my...
2 years ago
Dolce Bellezza

Libros de filosofía - A veces la filosofía, en medio de la vida cotidiana, parece una cima inalcanzable: términos oscuros, definiciones vagas y verdades aparentemente sin impo...
2 years ago
The Book Trunk

Starting Over - I’ve abandoned this blog, because I struggle with those wretched blocks. And ads which I do not want have appeared, and I can’t get rid of them, and they a...
2 years ago
Cosy Books

The Gentlewomen by Laura Talbot - I'm whipping the dust sheet, so to speak, off my blog. Early last autumn the realization that being tempted by interesting books being written about on ...
2 years ago
The Buddha Diaries

RIGHTS--AND WRONGS - Dear Harry, I have written to you before of my distress about the political and social culture of my adoptive country. Imagine, now, a father buying his...
3 years ago
Mrs. K. Investigates

Death in White Pyjamas by John Bude (1944) - In October of every year the company of the Beaumont Theatre begin rehearsals for their upcoming season. “Often these first rehearsals were held at Old Kno...
4 years ago
Vintage Reads

Rebecca - *"I'm afraid it does not concern me very much what Mrs de Winter used to do ... I am Mrs de Winter now you know."* My favourite moment in *Rebecca *is wh...
4 years ago
Views from My Highland Cottage

Mardi Gras 101 - “No one in Virginia will understand this unless they see it” --quote from my sister, Susan Brooks, during her 2019 Mardi Gras visit I’m originally from Vir...
5 years ago

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