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![]() ![]() ![]() It is well organized and covers all the main facts you could ever want to know about how chocolate is made. Overall, I loved this book and felt the information was presented in a very pleasing manner. There is also a chapter of recipes which include a few savory recipes along with the sweet. If you are concerned about labor practices and environmental issues, Rowan Jacobsen gives information on where to buy the best chocolates so you can eat them guilt free. There is a brief discussion about caffeine, theobromine, serotonin, tryptophan, phenylethylamine and anandamide. Rowan Jacobsen has a pleasant writing style and draws you into each chapter with tantalizing details. Dark chocolate that is! It is amazing to learn that chocolate has more antioxidants than blueberries, oranges, onions or eggplant. ![]() "Chocolate Unwrapped" is an intriguing little book that will completely convince you that chocolate is a healthy food. "For 95 percent of its three-thousand-year history, chocolate has been a drink and a health food." ~ pg. ![]() ![]() If you do not want to be made to feel nastily complicit in a group of dumb teenage boys taking sexual advantage of a dumb teenage girl in a really awful way, skip it. I read Chapter 4 and now I am stuck with it in my brain forever. Only do yourself a favor and don’t read Chapter 4. If, having read Too Close to the Falls, you then feel you must find out what happened in Catherine Gildiner’s life subsequently, feel free to read After the Falls. Gildiner’s account of stabbing a classmate with a compass and being taken to a psychologist for evaluation is one of the funniest bits of life writing I have ever read.Ģ. ![]() Toward the end, it gets quite a bit sadder, but the rest of the book is so wonderful that I did not really mind. I cannot say enough good things about it. ![]() It is a lovely, touching, frequently laugh-out-loud funny memoir about Catherine Gildiner’s childhood in Lewiston, New York, and her friendship with her father’s delivery man, Roy. Here are two recommendations to further your happiness:ġ. ![]() ![]() She, more than anyone, knows not all weres are bad-since she was raised by werewolves. ![]() After a brutal attack at the hands of a werewolf, she has spent years hunting the worst shifters possible to protect others from the same horrible fate. Shawna Hensky has been hiding from her past for a long time. Rather than seek revenge, Jazz sets out to find the mysterious human and protect her before the werewolf hunting gets her killed. More intriguing, the hunter is a human woman with strange connections to his long-lost mate. The work is rewarding enough for a werewolf destined to be alone…until a mysterious werewolf hunter shows up. Now his days are filled helping his best friend Desmon manage the Nightwind pack. ![]() Betrayed by his own father, she was taken from him before they had a chance to seal their bond. ![]() Alpha wolf Jazz Zendell lost his true mate as a teen and has no hope of finding another. ![]() ![]() Was Thanksgiving always on the final Thursday of November?Īctually, no. Interestingly, Thanksgiving was also deemed a national day of gratitude by former President George Washington, who called on people to be thankful for winning the Revolutionary War.
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Many of Katherine Anne Porter's stories are unsurpassed in modern fiction," said Robert Penn Warren. According to Reynolds Price the tale "can stand shoulder to shoulder with anything in Tolstoy or Chekhov." Both "Old Mortality" and the title story center on Porter's fictional counterpart, Miranda: a resilient Southern heroine who, as Mary Gordon observed, is in "the precarious position of a woman who must earn her way with no one behind her to break her fall." In the masterly "Noon Wine," set on a Texas farm circa 1900, she offers an unforgettable study of evil. Pale Horse, Pale Rider comprises three of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's short novels or long stories, as Porter-who didn't hold with the term "novella"-called her pieces. "They show surface only at her choosing." "Most good stories are about the interior of our lives, but Katherine Anne Porter's stories take place there," said Eudora Welty. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maddalena becomes a keeper of dangerous Borgia secrets, and must decide if she is willing to be a pawn in the power games of the man she loves. ![]() But now, employed as a servant in the Vatican Palace, she cannot help but be entranced by Cesare Borgia’s handsome face and manner and finds her faith and conviction crumbling in her want of him.Īs war rages and shifting alliances challenge the pope’s authority, Maddalena and Cesare's lives grow inexplicably entwined. Maddalena Moretti comes from the countryside, where she has seen how the whims of powerful men wreak havoc on the lives of ordinary people. Rodrigo’s eldest son Cesare, forced to follow his father into the church and newly made the Archbishop of Valencia, chafes at his ecclesiastical role and fumes with jealousy and resentment at the way that his foolish brother has been chosen for the military greatness he desired. Under Palombo’s skillful hand, the entangled world of the Borgias comes vividly to life, exposing the dark facets of class structure and the all-consuming greed that comes with ambition-and love.' - Heather Webb, internationally bestselling author of Last Christmas in Paris and Meet Me in Monacoĭuring the sweltering Roman summer of 1492, Rodrigo Borgia has risen to power as pope. ![]() ![]() Normally, the case wouldn’t have been within the purview of the Folly, which the Met’s investigative unit for all things magical and paranormal, except for the fact that one of the party goers turned out to be the daughter of Lady Ty, goddess of the river Tyburn. The story begins with a drug-related death at a house party in one of the most exclusive residential areas in the city. The Hanging Tree is book six of the series which returns to London and places the main story arc back on track, following the short respite we took to the countryside with our protagonist in Foxglove Summer. ![]() That was also when I realized I was irrevocably addicted to Peter Grant. Series: Book 6 of Peter Grant/Rivers of LondonĪfter two years of watching the release date hover in flux and getting pushed back time and time again, I must confess waiting for this book was its own special kind of agony. This does not affect the contents of my review and all opinions are my own. I received a review copy from the publisher. ![]() ![]() Book Review: The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch ![]() ![]() Now Dr LePera is ready to share her much-requested protocol with the world. After experiencing the life-changing results herself, she began to share what she'd learned with others - and The Holistic Psychologist was born. ![]() Wanting more for her patients - and for herself - she began a journey to develop a united philosophy of mental, physical and spiritual health that equips people with the tools necessary to heal themselves. A masterpiece of empowerment - this book changed my life and, trust me, it'll change yours too.' MEL ROBBINS, author of The 5 Second RuleĪs a clinical psychologist, Dr Nicole LePera found herself frustrated by the limitations of traditional psychotherapy. 'Want more from life? Looking for answers? How to Do the Work will teach you how to find them within yourself. ![]() I believe this book could change lives, if not the world.' HOLLY BOURNE, bestselling author of How Do You Like Me Now? ' How to Do the Work will transform how you see yourself and your ability to change. ![]() 'The book I wish I had read in my twenties.' ELIZABETH DAY, author of How to Fail 'This book is a must-read for anyone on a path of personal growth.' GABBY BERNSTEIN, author of number one New York Times bestsellers Super Attractor and The Universe Has Your Back 'If LePera's Instagram feed is full of aha moments illuminating the inner workings of your psyche, the revelations in the book are more like a full firework display.' Red magazine ![]() ![]() ![]() An immortal, all powerful, all knowing AI shows up just randomly and is like "i'm going to help you!". Unfortunately, the author just chose to fix that issue by writing in the most blatant ex machina I've seen in a book in years. ![]() ![]() I stuck with it for a while because at one point things start going really bad for the human army, and I couldn't think of how they'd get out so I thought it might get really interesting from there. Nothing about these races/militaries/etc are interesting. The human/American soldiers are all flawless, heroic and have no moral ambiguity. The main issue I had was that the alien races are so clearly based on tropes - the bad aliens are basically just Nazis (even compared to Nazi's over and over again), the good aliens are super nice and reasonable throughout the book, even when they're on the other side. So, overall the writing is at least somewhat interesting - there are some funny moments and if you like hearing "diary of a soldier" type stories I guess it's interesting, but from there that's all the novel really has going for it. ![]() The consensus was that it was a super fun novel that starts out as a pretty standard military scifi story but then get's really interesting as some bigger scifi elements are introduced halfway through the book. Picked up this novel because I haven't read any good military scifi in a while, and the reviews on Audible and comments on reddit were generally very positive. ![]() |