The Literary Cook

This makes me just a teensy bit sad: Amazon.com, one of the nation’s largest booksellers, announced Monday that for the last three months, sales of books for its e-reader, theKindle, outnumbered sales of hardcover books. In that time, Amazon said, it sold 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books, including hardcovers for which there is [...]

This book had so much potential. The basic idea of this site was inspired by Julie Powell’s first memoir Julie and Julia. A book that I absolutely adored. The movie version was even fairly well done. When I heard that she’d written a second book, I was thrilled! When I saw the fairly epic subtitle [...]

I’m definitely on a P.C. Cast kick (click on the Books link in the header if you don’t believe me!) lately. I just finished reading her Partholon series, and I absolutely adored it. It’s no secret that I adore stories with strong female leaders (Buffy, Xena, etc.). This series absolutely fits the bill. It’s somewhat [...]

I must confess that I’ve slacked off on everything this blog is supposed to be about. I haven’t been cooking much (although I did make my own spaghetti sauce for the first time the other day), and I haven’t been reading at all. That changed yesterday when I finally picked up my mom’s copy of [...]

I almost feel the need to apologize for enjoying Twilight. But I won’t. I’ve read through the series multiple times (well, I’ve only read Breaking Dawn once, but I’ll rectify that this week), but it’s been a good while since I’d turned those pages. I’d begun to allow some of the Twilight bashing affect how [...]

Exciting news in the literary world! Scholastic is reprinting The Babysitter’s Club! And there’s a new prequel. This series is one of the many reasons I fell in love with reading. I can vividly remember checking out every single copy of the series I could find at my local library and holing up in my room [...]