Watched all the Mormon Wives episodes but sick of paying for overpriced soda syrups? Fizz has the answer with more than 70 different mostly non-alcoholic soda concoctions. I’ve had a Sodastream for years. I’ve never used it so much. These recipes are delicious and cheaper than the pricey prepackaged syrups.Continue Reading
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
I Blew My Diet! Now What? uses a KetoMod diet and some soul searching to get your diet back on track. A KetoMod diet emphasizes non-starchy vegetables, full fats & protein. It limits carbs daily to 40 grams. The book includes three weeks of shopping lists and recipes. The recipesContinue 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
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
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
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
Were you a fan of America’s Next Top Model? Did you wonder how the models felt when the judges were so harsh about their looks and abilities? If so, You Wanna Be on Top? is a must read because behind-the-scenes it was so much worse. Girls treated like cattle, shovedContinue Reading
Your Pasta Sucks contains multitudes. It is a very funny memoir from a self-proclaimed Italian, Irish, Mexican homosexual. It also has family recipes that have a lot of ingredients and mostly take a while to cook. Photos are rather hit and miss. Nutritional information is non-existent. Admittedly, I wouldn’t recommendContinue Reading
Hannah is a twenty-something server working as a Cellar Rat, stocking bottles in a wine cellar, on her path to becoming a sommelier in NYC’s fine dining restaurants. Now a couple of decades later, she looks back at a career that was both a love affair and an addiction. HannahContinue Reading
As you can tell from the title, Cosmic Bullsh*t, this book discusses some pseudoscience topics in demeaning ways. Mythology, religion, astrology, alien visits, time travel, and dystopian end time scenarios are all reviewed from a scientific perspective and found wanting. The humor interspersed within the science feels rather forced, moreContinue Reading
Rot discusses the physical and political reasons for the Irish potato famine of the 1840s and 50s. What caused so many to have to choose between emigration and starvation? Where were the rich British landlords when their workers were starving? However, it shines a harsh light on our current AmericanContinue Reading
Despite inexplicable resistance to the science of climate change, our more drastic weather and the increasing frequency of large storms are heralding a change for the worse. If humans worldwide are unable, or unwilling, to reduce their carbon footprint, do we all just need to move north (or to MarsContinue Reading
How to Solve True Crime contains a series of true crime stories. They illustrate how detectives have used Occum’s razor, both successfully and not so successfully, to solve their cases. Occum’s razor is a scientific theory that encourages looking at the simplest solution first. It doesn’t prohibit expanding the investigation’sContinue Reading