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I'm a bit of a cookbook junkie. I love beautiful cookbooks with easy, yet elegant recipes. I loved Martha Stewart's Everyday Food magazine and the coordinated cookbooks. Nigella Lawson and Ina Garden take up a lot of room on my shelves (yes, plural). My go-to cookbook is America's Test Kitchen 1000 Best Recipes. They're good recipes, and I like the explanations as to how they came together. I've learned much from that cookbook. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
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I may have finally made friends with Tapatalk. Maybe. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
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When I read Wolf Hall, I posited that it was purposeful on Mantel's part. Now I don't remember why. Let me find my review. Ah, yes, here it is: http://ladydusk.blogspot.com/2013/12/book-review-wolf-hall-by-hilary-mantel.html Cromwell's antecedents were obscure too. I should read Bring up the Bodies. Hmmmm. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
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I'm a big fan of Nigella Lawson's book How to Eat. Part memoir, part cookbook, part menu making instruction, I found it a fascinating read a number of years ago - 10 maybe. I still make baked chicken her way. I love her writing style, though. Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
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Book a Week 2016 - BW40: October Spooktacular Reading Month
ladydusk replied to Robin M's topic in The Chat Board
I finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix last night. This is my first time through the Potter universe, so that's pretty exciting. I liked it a lot, although I haven't processed my review yet and writing about it helps me to do that. I started the newest kindle-available Joan Smith It Takes a Lady ... I'm not very far into it, but it seems to be one of the better ones than recently. Did I mention that I think I've read all of the Joan Smith titles available for Kindle in the last two years? Ahem.- 168 replies
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Aw, I'm still actively homeschooling but left the WTM fold for AmblesideOnline/Charlotte Mason and have needed support more directly from those groups. I was sad to lose track of this group but I so rarely venture to the Hive anymore that it's hard to keep up with ... I actively blog (ladydusk.blogspot.com) and am active on other social media. I'm reading Harry Potter for the first time, finished Goblet of Fire last night and that's about as spooky as I can hack, does that count as my spooky read? I've read all of the kindle-available Joan Smith titles. I'm still stumping for Susan Howatch - in fact shared on my blog's facebook page yesterday that The Rich are Different was on sale (might still be ... ) I'll try to swing in more regularly. Part of the problem is I'm on mobile most of the time and I hate Tapatalk :/ But I'm working a few hours a week for Pam Barnhill so am on my laptop more, so that will make it more viable. Thanks for remembering me <3
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Hi Friend. Some favorites. :) Hope you are well <3 I liked Victoria Holt before I liked Susan Howatch ... In fact, as I recall, I found Howatch by looking a couple of shelves below Holt and wondering what she was about with titles like Cashelmara and Penmarric.
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Me too [ew]
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It was OK. The plot wasn't very complicated. The characters were not all that witty. I don't know that the characters behaved within Regency mores; they needed another chaperone and someone who knew London at the least. The resolution scene was clever but a little confusing with using flowers to have a conversation and the other puzzling it out. But it was a nice story and free. So thanks!
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Giving it a try.
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I found a Joan Smith like author, Anne Barbour. She has 14 kindle titles at the reasonable price of $.99. I've read 2, A Talent for Trouble and A Pressing Engagemeny. I enjoyed both.
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I enjoyed it too based on Kareni's rec, but didn't read the sequels because of Amazon's plot summaries. They looked awful.
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L'Engle is one of my favorite authors. I liked the Austins better than the Murrays. Her adult books are great (A Severed Wasp is one of my favorites) A Ring of Endless Light has long been my favorite YA novel, I don't know how many times I've read it. She is amazing at linking the humanities and the sciences (including math) and faith (she was a devout Christian who often comes across as a universalist). I don't always agree but she always makes me think. I, personally, think her Crosswick Journals are some of the best memoirs out there. I havent made it very far in the Ivy Tree. I read all of Rhonda Woodward's regencies on kindle. They were really good, even though all of the heroes start as rakes. Start with The Wagered Heart. Kisses only.
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Kareni, Rated PG? ETA I saw your response to Angel :)
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Have this on kindle but have yet to plunge ...
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I read Elena Greene's Three Disgraces series. It was pretty well done, I liked the characters and the plots were interesting (if occasionally stretched too long). R rated. I'm going back to The Ivy Tree.
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I read a bunch of Kristin Vayden (OK, but a little more explicit than I like) and Elizabeth Bailey (Georgian Era and pretty good. Believable plots but some characters are not as loveable as others.) I went and dug out my copy of The Ivy Tree last night. I'm only 50 pages in, but it is much more challenging reading than the other and I love how Stewart gives so many clues to the truth of story but keeps the reader off balance so you are never really sure. Even as early as I am, and knowing the resolution, I question what is true and what isn't. Masterfully done.
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I read two Anna Elliott regencies: Susanna and the Spy (free for kindle) and London Calling (not free for kindle) they were decent, clean, but the heroine was kinda foolish.
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I found Cashelmara incredibly disturbing. Penmarric excellent.
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I finished Georgette Heyer's Charity Girl and it was sweet.
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I actually have it right now and am having a hard time getting past the first few pages. I'll work at it some more ...
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I've not read either of those ...
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I'm going to have to find my copy of The Ivy Tree ... I don't recall struggling with it. Fantastical, unrealistic plots are so much a part of Gothic romances. It has been a long, long time since I read it, though. I also like Wildfire at Midnight and Madame Will You Talk ... There are a whole lot of Gothic romances I haven't read on the bibliography on her Wiki (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Stewart_(novelist) ) page. I also didn't know she was Lady Stewart. Cool.
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I finished The Weaver Takes a Wife that Karen recommended and it was as sweet and charming as she said. I also finished Heyer's The Reluctant Widow which Amy had asked about weeks ago. It was fun and exciting, although not as romantic and had a pretty unbelievable plot line as many Heyer books. I read a Joan Smith with a similar plot device, Delsie. Also, today is the day on my blog where I host a link in for words that have been meaningful in your previous week's reading (http://ladydusk.blogspot.com/2014/10/wednesdays-with-words-such-twisted.html), any of you are welcome (encouraged) to share.
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I finished St Cyr #9 last night. Very good. Thanks to mum and Amy for introducing me. #10 comes out in March ... Next to try The Weaver Takes a Wife.