Top (Model) Chef: Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi
You may know Padma as that willowy model from the runway, or from her marriage to Salman Rushdie, or from her high-profile show, Top Chef. Whatever the way you know her, Lakshmi’s memoir Love, Loss and What We Ate details her lifelong love affair with nourishment.
Lakshmi goes into detail about all manner of things,
LIFE (AND DEATH) IN A NORTHERN TOWN: A REVIEW OF FANNY FLAGG’S THE WHOLE TOWN’S TALKING
Disclosure: I voluntarily read a Review Copy of this book. All opinions stated are solely my own and no one else’s.
While I was born in a bigger city, we moved to a small town out of state when I was young, so I became intimately aware of the little things associated with living in a small town.
Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen
I picked up Native Tongue for the first time in Europe. I was thirteen and I had already gone through the books that I had brought for the trip. An adult I was traveling with handled me this (along with an Anne Rice book) and I fell in love with the story of an ex reporter turned PR man. Coupled with the story of an ex-governor and a pair of bumbling thieves,
Everything But: A Review of Carolyn Parkhurst’s Harmony
I saw the cover of Carolyn Parkhurst’s Harmony and fell in love. The colors, the scenery, the two girls set apart from one another… I had a story in my head as soon as I saw it. I picked it up shortly after its August 2, 2016 release day via my Kindle. There was a huge overnight push once I was into it to finish it.
Broth and Stock from the Nourished Kitchen by Jennifer McGruther
Broth and Stock from the Nourished Kitchen by Jennifer McGruther is a book I was extremely excited to read, I love soup and broth and it can be so very healing. Unfortunately, I am also not fantastic with bones or some of the whole items associated with making soup–I just was able to eat a part of a chicken breast off the bone (without freaking out about said bones) for the first time in my life recently.
I Take You by Eliza Kennedy
I Take You by Eliza Kennedy–Lily is getting married to Will, the perfect guy. While he talks about his archeology job and fancies a lot of old-timey type things, she cannot deny the fire that they once shared. However, it isn’t until the week before the wedding that, as she is called to cancel said wedding by multiple people, that she realizes her true feelings for him.