Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

In which the cute cooking manga takes a depressing turn

Kitchen Princess: Vol. 5 by Natsumi Ando (artist), Miyuki Kobayashi (writer)

Kitchen Princess: Vol. 6 by Natsumi Ando (artist), Miyuki Kobayashi (writer)

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Last year my seven year old got into a cute cooking manga called Kitchen Princess.  I read and reviewed book one for Cannonball Read 10 but then only skimmed through the second through fourth books.  After reading volumes five and six my daughter somberly told me that a character had died and requested that I read them too.  This was an unexpected turn for a shojo manga.  The first four volumes contained a beginning love triangle between female protagonist Najika Kazami and brothers Daichi and Sora […]

Well, I WAS With You

I’m With Fatty by Edward Ugel

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I made it rain at the friends of the library book sale just prior to my annual promise not to buy more books until I read everything in my unread stack (almost always 50 books no matter what I do), and like any good binge it was all impulse. I love personal challenge essays (see above – although I will never ever succeed in diminishing that unread stack, my novels apparently breed in captivity) and for two bucks, how bad could this be? (How many […]

If Your Nerdiest English Professor Wrote A Cookbook

MLA Members Cook by Modern Language Association

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There are two ways to think about this: what’s the nerdiest thing you can think of OR what’s the most in-jokey vanity project you can think of? Either way, the answer is MLA Members Cook!  This is a cookbook supposedly created by collecting recipes from members of the MLA; yes that MLA, as in the formatting and citation style your English teachers and professors made you use. I said ‘supposedly’ created  because based on what this supposed book is presented as, a cookbook by members […]

Book Exchange Thank You!

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Thank you so much Fyrehaar for the lovely addition to my bookshelves! I’m already looking at what to cook this weekend.

“We eat for our stomachs, but we hunger with our hearts.”

Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi

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Happy New Year’s Eve Eve, welcome to my last minute slew of reviews to catch myself up before CBR10 officially comes to a close! I’m a big Top Chef fan, despite my occasionally toddler like food preferences,  and was pleasantly surprised by host Padma Lakshmi’s memoir which covered both her career and personal life. She opens with her courtship and marriage to Salam Rushdie which, besides Top Chef, may be the thing she is most famous for doing. While her dissection of her failed marriage […]

The Gift that Keeps on Giving

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I received From Crook to Cook as part of the Cannonball gift exchange and it combined two of my favorite things- cooking and celebrity memoir- while adding a dose of rapper realness, although infinitely more readable than Gucci Mane, so while I never would have purchased this for myself it was the ideal gift.  From Crook to Cook has something for everyone. The cooking purist can revel in Martha Stewart’s foreword, the celebrity voyeur will appreciate Snoop’s candor including snaps from his kitchen and some of his favorite […]



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