I love to read. I also really enjoy spending time in the kitchen, usually in baking-mode, rather than cooking-mode, so I thought it might be interesting to combine those into one area. (Actually, I usually have a book with me in the kitchen anyway. Well, technically, two books - one with recipes and one without.) I am a fan of books with recipes in them - The Coffeehouse Mystery Series by Cleo Coyle, The Tea Shop Mystery Series by Laura Childs, and the Goldy Schulz Culinary Mysteries by Diane Mott Davidson, just to name a few. Once the appropriate blog name occurred to me, I thought it was time to get cracking - whether those be eggs or bookspines.
So, this will be a forum to explore those loves. I have also committed myself to reading three separate lists of books this year, which is ambitious, even for me. The first is with a high school friend - Flavorwire's Top 10 of 2010. The second is just for me - to complete Powell's 2010 Puddly Award Winners. I have read 16 of the 50 on the list, so 34 to do there. The third, the third is the most ambitious. A friend from my first post-grad school job and I discovered a book at Costco called the The 500 Books You Should Have Read. Since we are both big readers, we flipped through the book to see how well we were doing. Much to our surprise and chagrin, we had not read that many. This particular project is a multi-year tour de force because otherwise we'd have to read multiple books in a day. Since we both have jobs, and she is getting yet another degree, we just don't have quite that much free time, especially when we hit the Russian authors.
To recap:
So, this will be a forum to explore those loves. I have also committed myself to reading three separate lists of books this year, which is ambitious, even for me. The first is with a high school friend - Flavorwire's Top 10 of 2010. The second is just for me - to complete Powell's 2010 Puddly Award Winners. I have read 16 of the 50 on the list, so 34 to do there. The third, the third is the most ambitious. A friend from my first post-grad school job and I discovered a book at Costco called the The 500 Books You Should Have Read. Since we are both big readers, we flipped through the book to see how well we were doing. Much to our surprise and chagrin, we had not read that many. This particular project is a multi-year tour de force because otherwise we'd have to read multiple books in a day. Since we both have jobs, and she is getting yet another degree, we just don't have quite that much free time, especially when we hit the Russian authors.
To recap:
- Project 1 - Flavorwire Top 10 of 2010 - 10 books in nine months
- Project 2 - Puddly Award Winners - 34 books in nine months
- Project 3 - The 500 Books - 500 books in 33 months
If anyone can accomplish this, it is you. I think you were born with a book in your hands.
ReplyDeleteGood luck,
Love Mom
Dear Kristan!
ReplyDeleteYou can do it! You were a wiz kid at such a young age with puzzles...remember??? Even when your mother and I secretly hide a puzzle piece from you! You caught us right away!
BRAVO TO YOU...THIS LIBRARIAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN SO VERY PROUD OF YOU!
I think your venture could be turned into a movie...who would play the part of YOU??
Love and hugs,
Aunt D'nis