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A place for friends and fellow obsessors to gather. Tuesday, February 10, 2015. Rather than purchase disappointing tomatoes and other summer vegetables, I hit the Asian grocery store. Yesterday I picked up a massive bag of baby bok choi. They looked so alive and promising and like the antithesis of cauliflower. Happily I can report success! Baby Bok Choi with Miso Ginger Dressing.
Sunday, January 3, 2010. Books Read in 2010 with brief comments. If I had to pick one hopeful Aspie memoir though. Really lovely, quirky book of poems. 4 Let the Great World Spin. Read for book group; very beautiful, moody novel that links up a wide variety of New Yorkers. Had a little trouble with imagined vertigo in the highwire parts but I expected that. 5 The Girl Who Played with Fire.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011. Books read in 2011 with brief comments. 1 Finnikin of the Rock. 2 Anna and the French Kiss.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012. Books read in 2012 with brief comments. 1 The Beauty and the Sorrow. Ends with a chilling one-page entry that also shows how WWII was inevitable. 6 Anna Dressed in Blood.
Sunday, January 13, 2013. Books read in 2013 with brief notes. 3 The Elegance of the Hedgehog. 5 Girl of Fire and Thorns. 6 The Song of Achilles. The Middle Grade book Rules. The YA London Eye Mystery. And Marcelo in the Real World. 8 The Song of The Quarkbeast.
Saturday, January 11, 2014. Books read in 2014 with brief notes. 1 The Good Lord Bird. Wow, what a voice! The final book in the Divergent. 3 The Signature of All Things. 4 Speaking from Among the Bones. 5 The Buddha in the Attic. 6 As She Left It. Interesting little mystery set in Leeds.