I like afternoon teas. I like afternoon teas so much that my wife and I regularly go to an Afternoon Tea in different cities whenever we travel. I'm also curious about old menu/recipe books (like from the late 1800's to early 1900's). Sometimes I find absolute gems like the old church cookbook from the 1910's where every desert recipes contained ( Read more... )

Book ends are really designed for people who do not fully fill every shelf in their house with books.

I am not one of those people.

Man, I love it when I'm up out of bed for less than five minutes and my digestive track decides that it needs to evacuate everything I've eaten in the last 48 hrs in 4.8 seconds. I couldn't even call into work because I had a meeting that I had already rescheduled twice and trying to find another time that worked with everyone's schedule was more ( Read more... )

I have the galley for my book to review which means I only have to read this story ONE MORE TIME before it's published. I'm sure I'll find some minor typo. They seem to multiply when I'm not looking. I am so sick of reading/rereading this story at this point. But! It will be published May 1st and then I'll be done with it. If I don't write a couple ( Read more... )

Miome has had to go on a special diet for medical reasons, and can't eat preservatives. Guess what is chock full of preservatives? Bread. Luckily, I enjoy baking bread and am good at it. So today is going to be split between finishing edits and baking bread.

I was going to use one of my go-to recipes (Walter Sands' Basic white bread if you were ( Read more... )

So you all know I read terrible, terrible books on my Kindle during my commute.

Today I read one where the author kept trying to say that the main character did pilates. Notice I said try. What the author really said was that the main characters did palates. The first time I thought it was a typo. By the 2nd time I realized it wasn't. The author ( Read more... )

I mentioned going through my Kindle and pulling funniest of the typos and comments I've made on it. People seemed to be really into that, so I'll do that this weekend ( Read more... )

I'm do glad all my comments and selections on my Kindle can't be seen by others, because the only thing I use these two features for is to highlight all the misspellings, grammatical errors, and general mistakes the authors make in their stories ( Read more... )

At one point I found a e-book on Amazon where the pairing was between a male vampire and a male bunny-shifter. I cannot find this book again to save my life. I don't know whether to be disappointed that I can't share this with you all, or relieved that now I'm not tempted to buy it.

EDIT: I guess I should also mention that the cover is a guy with ( Read more... )

It's really disturbing to download a book off Amazon expecting a sci-fi romance, only to get five pages into it and realize it was Final Fantasy 7 fanfic with the numbers filed off. Not a good one either.

Hello, one of the character's names is Airith. You are not being subtle here.

At least I didn't pay money for it.