Book of the Week: ‘Comfort Food Diaries’
The Comfort Food Diaries: My Quest for the Perfect Dish to Mend a Broken HeartEmily Nunn2017, 310 pagesNonfiction What better time to talk about comfort food than the dead of winter? Emily Nunn tells the story of how a cold, dark time in her life brought her on a journey to explore comfort food and much more. After losing her job to the recession and her brother to suicide, Nunn falls back into alcohol addiction and her personal life...
Book of the Week: ‘What If?’
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Randall Munroe 2014, 303 pages Nonfiction What if?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions is exactly as the title describes: a book that provides carefully considered, researched, scientific answers to questions that are both random and ridiculous. Questions like, “What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed...
Book of the Week: ‘Best Day Ever’
Best Day Ever Kaira Rouda 2017, 342 pages Fiction Best Day Ever is an entertaining addition to a new trendy theme in popular literature, one that is the foundation of stories like Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris or The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena, one that makes the reader suspect that the perfect lives of perfect couples are not always what they seem.Paul and Mia Strom seem to be one of these “perfect” couples – Paul works as...
Book of the Week: ‘The Cabinet of Wonders’
The Cabinet of WondersMarie Rutkoski2008, 258 pagesChildren’s Fiction Petra is a 12-year-old girl who lives in a village outside of Prague in the countryside of Bohemia. Her father is not a simple toymaker, but a magical artificer of metals. His skills allow him to create animals that are nearly alive. Petra’s silver pet and constant companion is a clever spider, who loves to cling to her hair and keeps up a running conversation with...
Book of the Week: ‘Wonder’
WonderR. J. Palacio2012, 315 pagesChildren’s Fiction This is the story of August, a young boy who is just a little bit different from everyone else. He was born with a rare genetic facial issue that has made his face look mutated from all of the surgeries that he has had in order to correct it. He has spent most of his life wearing an astronaut helmet to hide his face when in public, but now he’ll face the hardest challenge of them...
