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Books I'm Reading

Ree Drummond: The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels--A Love Story
Just started reading this on 3/23/12 and I am REALLY enjoying it. I watch Ree Drummond on TV and I have one of her two cookbooks, so it's fun to get the background story of how she met and fell in love with her husband. She has an excellent sense of humour too! (*****)
Gwyneth Paltrow: My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness
Really a nicely done recipe book with some interesting background stories on each of the recipes. (*****)
Cathy Erway: The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove
I started this book last year but didn't finish it. So I'm back to it once again.
J.D. Robb: Treachery in Death
Another enjoyable read with my favourite characters...Eve, Rourke, Peabody, McNabb and Feeney. This was book #32 in the series and I've enjoyed each and every one! (*****)
Rick Kushman: A Moveable Thirst: Tales and Tastes from a Season in Napa Wine Country
Patricia Wells: We've Always Had Paris...and Provence: A Scrapbook of Our Life in France
Kathleen Tessaro: Elegance
Started - 11/10/2010 and finally finished this in February. I stopped and started it. It was kind of like a movie that you keep thinking will get better so you stick it out...well, this really didn't get much better. (*)
Josh Kilmer-Purcell: I'm Not Myself These Days
This is Josh's other book that I picked up after the Bucolic Plague. It was "interesting" but I can't say I loved it like his other book. (***)
Josh Kilmer-Purcell: The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir
Absolutely the best! So entertaining!! I loved it and will pick up Josh's other book to read soon. (*****)
Elizabeth Buchan: Perfect Love
I didn't enjoy this one at all. I really liked the author from a previous book she wrote, but this one was really boring and sometimes hard to follow...or maybe I just wasn't interested enough to follow. (*)

April 29, 2012