The Art of Gluten-Free Bread provides a multitude of recipes for gluten free breads. From sourdough breads to yeast breads to holiday feast breads, most wheat bread types are recreated as gluten free here. There are even recipes for brownies, dinner rolls and croissants. Each recipe includes a gorgeous colorContinue Reading
Lady-of-a-certain-age Judith and her best friends Becks and Suzie are back on the case in Murder on the Marlow Belle. A local blowhard who runs the town’s drama society and playhouse is killed on a boat where everyone is a suspect. Was it his protégé who is now an eliteContinue Reading
With 36 weekly progressively more difficult lessons, Wild Watercolor is like taking an art class in your home. Beginning with a simple sky and concluding with an advanced Prickly Pear Cactus Flower, this book gently moves your skill set forward. Using a fully illustrated step-by step approach, the author teachesContinue Reading
Ready to learn a fun and inexpensive new hobby regardless of your age? The Ultimate Origami Challenge Kit for Kids 8-12 will walk you through paper folding step-by-step. Beginning with a simple grasshopper and progressing through 29 additional increasingly difficult projects, this book has something for every skill level. TheContinue Reading
A mysterious host lures seven guests to a posh dinner party in Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests. While there, they each receive an envelope that includes a card with their age at time of their death. Most think it is a not-very-clever PR stunt. Until the bodies startContinue Reading
I have one word for the newly translated Icelandic thriller, The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer. Frustrating. This book has a mystery of a missing crime writer but so much more. It has a detective with a violent ex-girlfriend in 2012, a bank robbery being planned in 1965,Continue Reading
92 Quick & Healthy Recipes for Every Day is a cookbook for beginners with recipes for only one or two people. The ingredients are easy to find and not too numerous. That makes this cookbook a great gift for young/new adults moving out of their family’s home for the firstContinue Reading
I can sum up The Intelligence Explosion in two words. Robots BAAAAD! And by robots, I mean artificial intelligence in all its myriad of forms. Of the thirteen chapters in the book, only one presents the benefits of AI. The rest present the ways AI will mess us up. AI’sContinue Reading
In For Duck’s Sake, Meg has had enough of planning huge events. When her town decides to have a parade and fair to support an animal adoption event, she successfully pawns off the leadership of it to her uber organized mother. That leaves Meg plenty of time to help theContinue Reading
Twin girls adopted at birth by two families. One is middle class. One is upper class. The rich one is accused of murdering her family’s biological daughter. The other tries to get her freed from The Locked Ward, a psychiatric hospital where she is being held on a murder charge.Continue Reading
A group of sentient robots decide to run the restaurant where they work after their owners disappear in Automatic Noodle. While the characters are interesting, the world building is the best part of the book. California has broken off from the rest of America after a prolonged war. The humansContinue Reading
The World Inside is a ghost story written with teens in mind. However, since the prose is at a third grade level, per the publisher, even younger children might enjoy it too. Fifteen-year-old Tamika’s mother won’t let her join her friends in Paris for a summer vacation. Instead, she isContinue Reading
Reading Tea with Jam & Dread, the sixth entry in the Tea by the Sea cozy mystery series, is like slipping on a warm robe on a chilly winter day. It’s comforting and lets you forget all the troubling “fake” news of late. In the book, Cape Cod tearoom proprietorContinue Reading
Preserving the Seasons begins with brief overviews of all the ways to save your garden, or farmers market’s, bounty. Freezing, pickling, water bath canning, drying, dehydrating and freeze drying are all covered as are various types of infusions. I don’t know if everyone has a relative like my grandma. SheContinue Reading
Another is a pleasantly creepy middle grade horror tale by the great adult horror author, Paul Tremblay. Like the Goosebumps books, this novel, while set in a young person’s world, is a blast for adult readers too. Casey is a preteen who is already dealing with bullying and tics whenContinue Reading
Algospeak was not what I expected at all. I expected a deep dive into how social media has changed the words we use as well as changed the language itself. While the book does start there, it tends to go off in tangents down 4chan, incels and beauty influencers’ paths.Continue Reading