Shoes! Lunch! Dinner!

I usually buy Den shoes for our anniversary. Shoes that he wouldn't normally buy on his own. This year I bought him two yummy pairs but not in his size. So we are meeting to get new ones, maybe have lunch at Harvest, and then I can zip on to Whole Foods...everything we need is in the same spot. Perfection!

Shoes...


Interesting factoid...lol...Den gets his feet measured every time he gets new shoes! I find that mildly irritating...he has been the same size since college!



Lunch...another mildly interesting factoid...our Harvest used to be our Gap! Way to recycle! It's a really cool place that tries to use local stuff!




Dinner shopping...and a sweet trip to the coffee bar for a simple coffee au lait for me.




Dinner...from Epicurious...charred brussel sprouts with pancetta and oriechette pasta...Whole Foods is supplying me with the hand made pasta...yum!

That is not my hand...this photo is from Epicurious!


One last thing...explaining to Lucy that she has to watch Roxie...her look is priceless!



I am going to read this for the next hour...the story is about Lily who is in Brazil accused of murdering her roommate. Her father and sister are there...and her father is at his first meeting with attorneys...who go on and on about all of the incriminating things Lily has done...which really do seem incriminating...I will keep you posted but it is one of those books where I want to eat up every word...it's that good!



Happy Reading!

Thoughts...

Reading this...so so good! I love these family dysfunctional novels with a twist...this one could remind me just a bit of the Amanda Knox trial...the author says it might have been loosely inspired by that but it is so much more...I am incapable of putting it down! It is that good!




These are the days I especially appreciate not teaching...days when I can stop whatever I am doing...toss a kitty or two in the tent on the deck...grab a steamy mug of tea...and sit on the deck and read...and that is just what I will be doing once it gets a tad warmer today...once I finish laundry...and once I walk through the house and put all the pillows and quilts back on beds and sofas. Lucy and Roxie's night time romps are getting wilder and wilder. I am not sure I really want to know what my innocents do after dark!

These faces are not telling me everything! Or actually anything!






Today Den and I decided that we need cake...moist sticky chocolatey cake...for dessert tonight!

This calls for Martha Stewart's Busy Day Chocolate Cake! Yum! Our fam fave!
Just google it...it's simple and fabulous!



Happy Reading!

So Many Amazing Books!

They are all out there just waiting to be read!
This one...suspense ridden...




This one...described at Amazon like this...

Written with the riveting storytelling of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Cartwheel is a suspenseful and haunting novel of an American foreign exchange student arrested for murder, and a father trying to hold his family together.




This one...I love Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce...




This one...described at Amazon this way...

A spellbinding novel that will resonate with readers of Mark Haddon, Louise Erdrich, and John Irving, Perfect tells the story of a young boy who is thrown into the murky, difficult realities of the adult world—and discovers that there’s no going back.




This one...described at Amazon like this...

"This hauntingly evocative tale had me on the edge of my seat as I gasped, cried, and cheered. Set against a barren, post-apocalyptic landscape, Red Hill is a true testament to Jamie McGuire’s skill as a storyteller. You’ll love every heart-pounding minute of it."

(Tracey Garvis Graves, New York Times bestselling author of On the Island and Covet)



I really must read faster!

Happy Reading!

What A Week For Books!

It must be this yummy crispy orangey season but it seems as though there is a vast/ huge/gigantic number of books out there that I want/need/must read! This is why I love football season! I can literally tune out Den and the TV and read an extra book every Sunday! I love it. I think I read Hunger Games during a Bronco game...it was fabulous!

These were both in the NYT Book Review yesterday and I don't think I have seen them around anywhere.

I am taking this description from Amazon and the author Maggie Shipstead...whose work I love.

“Captivating and delicious. A brilliantly imagined and lovingly told story about the wide world beyond the margins and outside the parlors of Pride and Prejudice.”

—Maggie Shipstead, author of Seating Arrangements.

I really want to read this!




This one, too...this is the description from Amazon...

In Duplex, Kathryn Davis, whom the Chicago Tribune has called “one of the most inventive novelists at work today,” has created a coming-of-age story like no other. Once you enter the duplex—that magical hinge between past and future, human and robot, space and time—there’s no telling where you might come out.

I love books like this one!


Reading this...a werewolf/coffee novella...really yummy!

Off to clean...and tidy and organize...yum!

Happy Reading!

Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!

Reading...and again...so deliciously good I read through some of the night and will finish today!


Breakfast...I made simple omelets...Den brought home these amazing cinnamon rolls with a yummy cream cheese icing from...here! They were decadent!







The rest of the day is...football/reading/playing with kitties/relaxing! Oh boy! We have these amazing rolls and imported soprasetta and sharp imported provolone cheese and Italian peppers if we want a sandwich later...and a country vegetable soup is ready for dinner. Plus Den...that bad boy...brought home little baby pumpkin cheesecakes from Tallulah's...for dessert after soup if we are hungry.

Sounds like the perfect Sunday plan! Can you tell that we get really excited about food on Sunday? Oh my!

There were some absolutely fabulous new books in the NYT book review this morning...I am checking them out now and will post about them later...

Happy Sunday!

Happy Reading!