Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris by Ann Mah I’m currently working my way through the Julia Child memoir of living in Paris. I seem to be on a Paris book-kick at the moment. (Julia Child, David Lebovitz, Laura Florand and Lauren Willig, to name… Continue reading Review: Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris
Category: The Library
Review: The Rosie Project
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book is about Don, a professor of genetics, who is socially awkward and limited in his circle of friends. He likes things as they are, but he has decided that it is time to get married. He starts a project, with a… Continue reading Review: The Rosie Project
Happy song
Sometimes you have happy memories tied to songs. This is one of those songs. For me (and I suspect many others) it is associated with Barney and Robin from How I Met Your Mother.
Review: Sibylla : En biografi
Sibylla : En biografi by Roger Lundgren My rating: 1 of 5 stars I had huge expectations for this book, as the author is renowned as a royal expert in Sweden, and Princess Sibylla is something I expect that he would have known quite a bit about. I’m left with a conundrum, because the parts… Continue reading Review: Sibylla : En biografi
Kind of cute tap-dancing video
Skyfall
The Russian Army choir sings Adele’s Skyfall. Pretty amazing.
Hear
Music has always been a huge part of my life. From starting out in the church choir as a toddler to joining in the school brass band when I was eight. As a family we will also almost always start singing on car road trips. I usually tend to prefer music that I can sing… Continue reading Hear
Review: Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch
Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch by Barbara A. Perry My rating: 3 of 5 stars I actually rather liked this. My first foray into reading about the Kennedy clan (as an adult) had to be about Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. I’ve had both the Jackie and Teddy biographies lying about for… Continue reading Review: Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch
Review: Behind Closed Doors
Behind Closed Doors by Hugo Vickers My rating: 3 of 5 stars I have some major issues with this book. I think the writing itself is quite good – but I fail to grasp the concept of having “the ending” first, and then go on to the early lives of the Duchess and Duke of… Continue reading Review: Behind Closed Doors