Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

How to Raise Your Own Kids Baking Champion

bake it by DK

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I was watching reruns of Kid’s Baking Championship, and I think it might have inspired me to pick up a kids baking book off the library shelf. bake it also happens to be a DK book, and I’ve usually had good luck with DK instructional stuff. Being a kids book, and thus more basic assumptions of skill and knowledge, it makes sense that there are a lot of images of techniques for decorating, as well as preparing doughs, batters, fillings, etc. What I don’t quite […]

Adulting from books

A little course in Crochet by DK

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Bingo 5: Adulthood So I’m taking the ‘adulthood’ square as in the sense of ‘adulting’. There area few skills that I’ve long kind of wanted to master or at least gain competence in that might fall under this category, including learning to crochet. I learned how to knit in college out of a book (my grandmother tried to teach me as a kid but I don’t think I was really interested at the time), so now I’m coming back to the single needle again. I’ve […]

Getting One In Under the Wire

Pregnancy Day by Day by DK

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When you’re newly pregnant, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the quantity of pregnancy and baby books that are out there. There were two that I ended up using the most, one of them being Pregnancy Day by Day, published by DK and edited by Maggie Blott. I love the format of this book. They really do go day by day for the pregnancy, starting with day 1 of your menstrual cycle and going up to 40 weeks (although I stopped reading around 38 weeks […]

Good Enough For My Needs

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Best for: People visiting Lisbon In a nutshell: It’s an Eyewitness Guide. They have pictures and highlights. Worth quoting: N/A Why I chose it: I’ve tended to enjoy the Eyewitness Guides in the past, and we’re going to Lisbon later this month. Review: I appreciate that these books start with some history of the area that they cover. I have basically no knowledge of Portugal, other than that when I look at a map of Europe, it looks like a face to Spain’s hair. Now […]



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