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Insightful, Honest, and chock full of Double Entendres

April 20, 2017 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

I have a lady crush on Sue Perkins. I do not feel that this is an unheard of situation. I was introduced to her via Ale, who was watching the series Supersizers Go/Supersizers Eat from the BBC2 all about food history (it is available on Hulu and YouTube… offf you go). We LOVE food history. This lead to my comfort television becoming watching Sue and Giles drink their way through terrible food. The next great epoch in my Sue fandom was a late to the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, Ale, faintingviolet, GBBO, Spectacles, Sue Perkins

faintingviolet's CBR9 Review No:23 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, Ale, faintingviolet, GBBO, Spectacles, Sue Perkins ·
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CBR Gift Exchange HUZZAH! Thank you, Ale!

December 18, 2015 by Mrs. Julien 6 Comments

Ale sent me some lovely prezzies. Look! I am so excited that I may review something other than a kissing book for once and I have already bookmarked the dresses I will be having made when I get around to winning the lottery. There may have been (totally there was) some Kermit flailing especially when I looked through What People Wore When and saw how thorough it was. Oh joy! Oh rapture! Thank you to faintingviolet for organizing the exchange and thank you to Ale […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ale, CBR Gift Exchange, CBR7, Mrs. Julien

Mrs. Julien's CBR7 Review No:115 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: Ale, CBR Gift Exchange, CBR7, Mrs. Julien ·
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