Category Archives: Books and Reading

The Joy of Snowing

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Julie-Ann Baumer

I recently finished reading Anne Mendelson’s 1996 book Stand Facing the Stove.  It’s a dense and interesting biography of Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer, and the cooking compendium they created, Joy of Cooking. I picked up the book to learn … Continue reading →

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Bestsellers

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Julie-Ann Baumer

Before Christmas, I got a box in the mail.  In the far-north outpost he now calls home, friend and blog commenter Loosehead Prop found a stash of old novels in a used book emporium.  One was the 1948 bestseller, Dinner … Continue reading →

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Return to Arundel

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Julie-Ann Baumer

On Saturday, November, 26, 2016, I finished reading Anthony Doerr’s 2004 novel About Grace.  This novel was the 24th book I’d read in 2016.  The author won a Pulitzer prize for his 2014 novel, All the Light We Cannot See, … Continue reading →

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