If you’ve already mixed and sipped your way through the recipes in Tequila Mockingbird and Hickory Daiquiri Dock, you’re our kind of reader. (Please tell us we aren’t the only ones who fantasize about making Mockingbird author Tim Federle our personal bartender and ordering up a cocktail for a pleasurable night of reading.) If you’re too thirsty to wait for Mr. Federle to make […]
Cookbooks are among the most popular genres of books, across the board. Even if you never actually get around to trying out any of the recipes in one, they’re so well made, what with the hardbound bindings and the hundreds of glorious food photos, that they still make a great keepsake, gift, or coffee table book. […]
While there are have been plenty of hugely popular series in recent years—Fifty Shades of Grey, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, and Divergent come to mind…the series is also a hallmark of literary history. Sherlock Holmes! Nancy Drew! The Hardy Boys! Jeeves and Wooster! Readers just can’t get enough of the same good characters in new situations. Some […]
They say you eat with your eyes first, and cookbooks do a great job of helping you do just that with their lovely, full color pictures of perfectly prepared and presented food, along with delightful descriptions of their creations (at least, most of them do). But what if the foodie or accomplished home cook on your […]
“You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it.” “You are full, Laia. Full of life and dark and strength and spirit in our dreams. You will burn, for you are an ember in the ashes.”
