Weekend cooking: reminiscing on quinoa
Posted on | May 5, 2012 | 12 Comments
Weekend Cooking is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, fabulous quotations, photographs. It is hosted by Beth Fish Reads.
It’s been a while since I last blogged. For some reason, I feel quite calm and unbothered about not posting regularly, whether it’s about food or books. I still enjoy cooking and often share a quick tweet and a pic of my latest meal. I also still love to sit down with a good book, fiction or non-fiction, or run to and fro work with an audiobook keeping me company on the way. I just don’t feel panicky nor guilty any longer about not blogging about every single experience. Phew. Now I’ve got that off my chest, how do you do it? Do you ever wake up and think “ugh, I’m so not looking forward to writing that blog post” or “today I’m not going to take a photo of my food”? Do you feel guilty when you don’t blog often enough?
Don’t get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for you who do show up on the blogging scene regularly and I do enjoy reading your updates!
Now, on to the food? 
Book review: Foreign Bodies – Cynthia Ozick
Posted on | March 24, 2012 | 3 Comments
Title: Foreign Bodies
Author: Cynthia Ozick
ISBN-13: 9781848877351
Release date: August 1st 2011
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Genre: literary fiction, historical fiction
Source: public library
Challenges: Orange Prize
Verdict:
Summary
When Beatrice Nightingale, a divorced English teacher, is called out on an errand to locate her nephew in post-war Paris and return him to the United States, she has no idea what she has gotten herself into. Her brother Marvin, the anxious father to the disappeared boy, turns out to be a worse parent than he had thought himself to be. What starts out as a simple endeavor ends up as a story in which every Nachtigall family member is confronted with his/her flaws.
Book review: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson
Posted on | March 21, 2012 | 2 Comments
Title: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
Author: Helen Simonson
ISBN-13: 9781408804254
Release date: March 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Genre: contemporary fiction, romance
Source: public library
Verdict:
Summary (back of the book blurb)
Major Ernest Pettigrew (Ret’d) is not interested in the frivolity of the modern world. Since his wife’s death, he has tried to avoid the constant bother of the village women, his ambitious son and the suburbanisation of the English countryside. He prefers to lead a quiet life, upholding the values that people have lived by for generations – respectability, duty and a properly brewed cup of tea (very much not served in a polystyrene cup with teabag left in). But when his brother’s death, and a love of Kipling, sparks an unexpected friendship with the widowed village shopkeeper, Mrs Ali, the Major is forced to confront the realities of the twenty first century.
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