Emmalita – Page 58 – Cannonball Read 17

I loved this book, and then I found the recipes at the end and now I LOVE this book.

Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan

October 27, 2022 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

This is a ridiculously silly thing to be excited about, but there are recipes at the end of this book! We get to read about all this great food and then, we can make it ourselves. I loved this book and it made me cry and laugh and ache, but then I got to the end, and those recipes are like my own personal happily ever after. This is one of the best depictions of food as love and healing that I’ve read. Before I […]

CBR Diversion: Spooky Season Reads

October 27, 2022 by Emmalita 23 Comments

Since October 1, I’ve seen several of you posting about your spooky books and movies on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. Personally, I’m not a huge horror fan, but I like some mixed in with another genre – for example, Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb series is a great blend of sci fi, fantasy, and horror. Do you read specific books in the lead up to Halloween? Are you more of a straight horror fan, or do you look for a cozy mystery with witches? Or do […]

CBR14 Bingo – Week 14 Check-in

October 20, 2022 by Emmalita 3 Comments

Welcome to the Week 13 CBR 14 Bingo Check-in! You can see the card and the rules on the kick-off post. This week’s mood: Happy National Pasta Day! It’s also Pasta Month! Please check your tags and make sure you are using cbr14bingo. Ale – 8 reviews, 1 Bingo anana – 4 reviews andtheIToldYouSos – 10 reviews ardaigle – 9 reviews, 1 Bingo BlackRaven – Blackout booktrovert – Blackout Classic – Blackout CoffeeShopReader – 22 reviews, 7 Bingo Debcapsfan – 1 review Dome’Loki – 17 reviews, 2 Bingo drmllz – 3 reviews ElCicco – Blackout elderberrywine – […]

If you feel like washing your meat is keeping you closer to your ancestors, wash on, Sis

Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook by Illyanna Maisonet

October 18, 2022 by Emmalita 2 Comments

I will read anything Illyanna Maisonet wants to write. She is like a breath of salt-tinged fresh air in a stuffy room. Reading Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook is a no-brainer for me. I want her to have the resources to write whatever she wants to write. On almost every page of Diasporican I found myself muttering, “I love her.” This is one of the most quotable cookbooks I’ve read. I cannot share as many quotes as I’d like because I’m working from an advance reader […]

Bingeing the Walls

Heavy by Cate C. Wells

Hitting the Wall by Cate C. Wells

Against a Wall by Cate C. Wells

Wall by Cate C. Wells

October 18, 2022 by Emmalita 4 Comments

Kindle Unlimited is great for stress-binging books. After reading (but not reviewing because I still don’t know what to say) Cate C. Wells’ Run Posy Run, I ended up reading another book by Wells, Heavy. After that I gave in and binged all the books about the family Wall. Two of the books, Heavy and Wall, are in the Steel Bones Motorcycle Club series. The other two are the spinoff Stonecut County duology, Hitting the Wall and Against a Wall. I’m reviewing them chronologically rather […]

Pie became politicized and racially charged

Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies by Rossi Anastopoulos

October 17, 2022 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Sweet Land of Liberty is a history with some recipes. As a lover of food and a lover of weird deep dives into history, this is definitely up my alley. I appreciated that Anastopoulos acknowledges the limitations of her hook, but really embraces it. Her chapters cover social movements, race relations, gender roles, industrialization of food, marketing, identity, and national mythology as those things play out through pie. It took me a few flip throughs and chapters to settle into what Rossi Anastopoulos is doing […]

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