At one point, my father was stationed in Turkey and, for Christmas that year, he sent me a) a puzzle ring he had bought at the market; b) a pair of harem pants and a head scarf; and c) a copy of this book. The book is written by an earlier member of the Air …
Continue reading 365 Books: Scotch and Holy Water by John D. Tumpane
I picked this book up at the Walla Walla annual book fair which, I am sure, is called something else entirely, something involving the word Whitman. You can look it up; it's held in the ballroom at the Marcus Whitman hotel which, until recently, was the the tallest building in Walla Walla. The book fair …
Continue reading 365 Books: Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All by Jonas Jonasson
This book sucked me in. I had just finished reading The Midnight Library for some reason I can't remember, and discovered this book, which is, oddly enough, more about a library than a book. The book starts with a young girl who lives in the middle of a dusty nowhere, a tiny community of people …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Book that Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
My husband and I have a cookbook problem. Our 15 linear feet of cookbook shelving has been maxed out and new cookbooks have taken over the undershelf of the coffee table and started taking over the bar between the kitchen and the not-kitchen space in our small New York apartment. Part of this problem is …
Continue reading 365 Books: Bugialli on Pasta by Giuliano Bugialli
How do you choose the next book you're going to read? I often reach for something adjacent to what I've just finished reading. For example, if I'm reading a book about H.H. Holmes, I might reach next for a book about the Chicago World's Fair, about Chicago architecture, or about serial killers of the turn …
Continue reading 365 Books: Monsters of the Sea by Richard Ellis
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