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Review: Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Kate

I bought this book not because I knew anything about it or because I’d heard it was any good but because I’d heard, via twitter, that the publisher was adopting penguins in the name of bookstores that sold a certain … Continue reading →

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Kate

In the collection of books that I bought for my nook immediately following 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I started reading them around Christmas. I think I was expecting more descriptions of action and … Continue reading →

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Reading Challenge 2012: Just Read Things

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Kate

Unlike the past few years where I’ve set down for myself a list of books that I wanted to have read by the end of the year, this year I’ve decided that I’m just going to set a number and … Continue reading →

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2011: The best of the best of the best of this year

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Kate

I had planned on doing each of these as their own posts, but my sister has been here this week so we’ve been busy being up to no good. So, I’m doing them all now. The best things I’ve cooked … Continue reading →

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Review: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Kate

This book was the most recent Bathtub book (which is to say, a book I keep by the bathtub so that I can pretend to have the time to be leisurely whilst having a soak before bed). In this tale, … Continue reading →

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Something I learned from flipping through Martha Stewart’s Magazine

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Kate

  Hot apple juice is an excellent substitute for hot water when making tea on a cold morning. And, even though Martha Stewart recommended the Earl, I’m quite happy with the Lady (and even happier with Republic of Tea’s Vanilla … Continue reading →

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Review: The Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Kate

At the beginning of 2010, my sister and I saw the movie Invictus. It is an excellent sports film about the 1995 Rugby World Cup and Nelson Mandela’s enlisting of the South African team to win the cup and help … Continue reading →

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Review: The Eyre Affair

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Kate

Thursday Next is a Literatec officer (a division of SpecOps) in an alternative world in 1985.  War is still raging in the Crimean peninsula, Wales has successfully seceded from the UK and literature is absolutely loved by the people.  I … Continue reading →

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Meat.

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Kate

So, some of Omnivore’s Dilemma is devoted to industrial farming practices, which includes industrial meat-raising operations. Again, I was expecting this to be a little upsetting because I already knew from reading the newspaper and watching food documentaries that these … Continue reading →

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The Guilty Eater’s Dilemma?

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Kate

I finished reading Omnivore’s Dilemma, and it has given me a lot to think about. I was expecting this. I took a class on Science, Technology and Sustainable Development as an undergrad (and, after that did a bunch of reading … Continue reading →

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