Sometimes, we leave Utah, and Bart and I wonder if it is a mistake to raise our baby so far away from her grandparents, her cousins, her aunts and uncles. We imagine a life where we didn’t spend $700 multiple times a year to fly west for family events. Bart talks about how much he misses the mountains. And then…
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How to Be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway
How to be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway was published in 2010 about a Japanese woman who marries an American GI after World War II and moves to the United States, living the remainder of her life as an American housewife and mother A couple of weeks ago, I presented at KidLitCon with three other librarians. Two of us…
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Vegetarian Recipe #6: Roasted Tomatoes and Goat Cheese Polenta
Image from The Kitchn This was one of those meals where you decide you desperately don’t want to make what you have on the menu or in fact anything on the menu for the week, and so you pick something, ANYTHING off your Pinterest boards to make instead. Just so long as it isn’t something on the menu. This had…
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The Quarter of the Subtitle
I can tell I read a lot of non-fiction this quarter because good heavens, there are many long titles on this list. My wrists are a little stiff from all that typing (Ruby Oliver, your ridiculously long titles didn’t help matters either). The Beach Trees by Karen White This book was really quite fantastic until the last twenty pages. When…
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Lunch Wars by Amy Kalafa
You have a book about food? You have a book I would like to read. I’ve read a bunch of food books over the last year or so (Animal, Miracle, Vegetable, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Food Matters, In Defense of Food, the upcoming Make the Bread, Buy the Butter), and I’m not losing steam yet. Bart probably wishes I would,…
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