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Move over Johnny Appleseed, Granny is in da house

Granny Smith by Michelle Worthington

January 30, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Granny Smith takes care her family and the trees that grow in her orchard. But that is not all. She finds that one tree needs a little extra care, grows it, and one day realizes that this tree has some awesome apples. Apples that while looked different, soon become a favorite of many. This is a story based on a woman named Maria Ann Smith. When she was 69 years-old, she Grandma Moses her way into the apple world from her small Sydney farm. She […]

And you think your travels had bumps

Hakim's Odyssey: Book 2: From Turkey to Greece by Fabien Toulme

January 26, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

CBR15Passport book set in and author from another country (from Syria, living in Turkey, trying to get to Greece and France)I was going to wait until I read volume three of Hakim’s Odyssey by French author Fabien Toulme (translation by Hannah Chute) before writing the review of Volume Two: From Turkey to Greece but was not sure when that would happen. And besides, Hakim’s Odyssey fills each book with enough so you do not have to know about three, you will just go to the […]

The darkness inside

Deserter: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito

January 26, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

CBR15Passport book set in and author from another country Reading Deserter: Junji Ito Story Collection near bedtime is not recommended. Now, it is not so much because the stories are “scary-scary” but because they are warped! Each story is not very long but packed with stuff (and you probably realize I am not saying “stuff”). Yes, things can be creepy, gross (after all, it is horror and somehow the black and white images are almost too realistic in their illustrated manner. I was getting old-black-and-white-1950-thriller/science […]

The celery plant will eventually tire, as we all do.

The Everlasting Meal Cookbook by Tamar Adler

January 22, 2023 by Emmalita 1 Comment

The good news is, I don’t have to write a cookbook. The other good news is that you can buy Tamar Adler’s The Everlasting Meal Cookbook, Leftovers A to Z and have a better cookbook than I would write. It isn’t a coffee table book filled with artfully photographed food. It is an enormously useful cookbook that suggests uses for almost everything sitting in your fridge or pantry. As much as I love cookbooks and spend hours reading recipes, I rarely actually cook from recipes. […]

You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato

Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World by William Alexander

January 20, 2023 by yesknopemaybe Leave a Comment

Do you ever read a book’s marketing summary after finishing a book and wonder what in the world they’re going on about? The teaser for “Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World” by William Alexander starts off like this: “The tomato gets no respect. Never has. Stored in the dustbin of history for centuries, accused of being vile and poisonous, appropriated as wartime propaganda, subjected to being picked hard-green and gassed, even used as a projectile, the poor tomato is the Rodney Dangerfield of foods. Yet, […]

Put a little farm in your life

Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World by Mia Wenjen

January 19, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

CBR15Passport Different genres (non-fiction/Sustainable agriculture for children)There is nothing like not being in the mood to read or to read the book you have in front of you. It colors your feelings about the book, to say the least, but it also makes an overall unsatisfying experience. I always feel like I have missed something when this happens. And I had a moment like that with Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. I read it online as an Edelweiss reader copy. That […]

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