this little life of mine: On the Menu

February 2012

Reading

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Beth Revis: A Million Suns
2/8: Started. I loved Across the Universe and have been very excited to start the second book in the series!
Lisa T. Bergren: Waterfall: A Novel (River of Time Series)
2/7: Finsihed. A very good little time-travel romance. I almost set it aside, because it was so obviously a romance and I really don't like those - at least not the traditional ones where the guy just falls in love with the girl immediately and simply canNOT live without her; I read the heck out of that genre back in the 90s - but this had some pretty interesting characters and situations and I'm actually contemplating reading the other two books in the trilogy just to see what happens to the sisters!
1/31: Started. Here's yet another book for the Off The Shelf challenge this year. I might actually accomplish this one! (***)
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya: There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
1/30: Finished. It's been a while since I've read a collection of short stories, so I was a little apprehensive about reading this book. However, once I got into the stories, I loved every minute of it. The stories are strange and creepy and weird and wonderful! Some of them I got from the beginning, and others really surprised me. This writer has a great imagination!
1/25: Started. This is another one for the Off the Shelf Challenge. (***)
Larry Watson: Montana 1948: A Novel
1/24: Finished. Wow, what a quick read, but so good, too. One of those brief moment of time stories, a short summer in the life of one family. Kinda like Dandelion Wine, but while this guy's a good writer, but he's no Ray Bradberry.
1/23: Started. An actual book this time, not on my nook! (Amazing how much lighter my purse is now!) (***)
Marissa Meyer: Cinder: Book One in the Lunar Chronicles
1/20: Finished. Wow! What an amazing start to this series! It's basically the retelling of the Cinderella fairy tail - but set in the future with cyborgs and moon people and a horrible plague - so you basically know they story, but there are some great twists and turns thrown in as well. The one big twist I figured out pretty quickly (not sure if it was meant to be that obvious or not), but it didn't really distract from the story. I'm anxiously awaiting the next book in this series!
1/10: Started. I've been so excited to read this one! Really looking forward to it! (***)

2012 Reading Challenges

"Fun size" level = 20 books
1. Bumped by Megan McCafferty
2. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
3. Waterfall by Lisa T. Bergren
~~1. Cinder~~ ~~by Marissa Meyer~~
2. Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
3. Above by Leah Bobet
4. Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard
5. Storybound by Marissa Burt
6. The Cabinet of Earths by Anne Nesbet
7. The Vanishing Game by Kate Kae Myers
8. Unbound by Emily Goodwin
9. Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown
10. May B. by Caroline Starr Rose
11. The Treachery of Beautiful Things by Ruth Frances Long
12. Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Tempted level = 5 books (+1 more I really want to get off my shelf!)

~~1. Montana 1948~~ ~~by Larry Watson~~
2. Mariel of Redwall by Brian Jacques
3. 5th Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson
4. ~~There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby - Scary Fairy Tales~~ ~~by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya~~
5. Waterfall by Lisa T. Bergren
*Bonus* 6. Hunter Brown and the Consuming Fire by The Miller Brothers

April 03, 2005

On the Menu

Cooking can be creative, can't it? I mentioned early that I've become bored with food lately. So, I dug out some of my cookbooks, and found this meal in Bill Phillip's book Eating for Life (page 92, if you're interested). Turkey meatloaf, steamed green beans, and mashed red potatoes. Mmm! It was great for a change, and really easy to make. I'm definitely going to have to do this sort of thing more often!