5 Cookbook Recommendations for Christmas 2019

Previous posts in this Christmas recommendation series include picture books, junior books, and middle-grade books. We have one 100% vegetarian, one most-of-the-time vegetarian (me) and two whatever’s-on-offer-within-reason eaters in the household. This means our home-cooked meals are mostly vegetarian and have been for some time now. So I’m always on the lookout for new cookbooks because…

What I’m Reading November 2019

As you’ve probably deduced by now, this month has been consumed by my Christmas reading recommendations series. Putting that together takes a lot of work (and reading!) and so this month’s book stack is considerably smaller. I was lucky enough to secure a hold copy of Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann around the time (if my memory…

5 Middle Grade Book Recommendations for Christmas 2019

If you’re interested, you can read earlier posts in this series for picture books and junior reads. The Fowl Twins: Book 1 by Eoin Colfer The opening paragraph of the promotional blurb for The Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer begins thus: “Myles and Beckett Fowl are twins but the two boys are wildly different. Beckett is blonde,…