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#audiocooking Sometimes you just need stuffed shells and nothing else will do, amirite?
I really like YA audiobooks because the storylines tend to be easy to follow while I'm doing stuff, and this time of year I got a lotta things to do, starting the holiday gifts and whatnot.
This book reminds me a little of The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina in that both matriarchs are tied fiercely to the land around their homes.

#AudioCooking #ArmChairTraveler Atmospheric, slightly cheesy but engaging ❤️💚🤍

I listened to some more of the tagged anthology while I made a couple freezer meals to use up some beef. It‘s… not what I hoped for. A third of the way through, the majority of the contributors are deeply concerned with using Wakanda to discuss America. I can understand that impulse, and the value in it, and I appreciate the ways they also interrogate Wakanda‘s isolationism, but—yeah. I‘d prefer more chances to explore WAKANDA. #audiocooking

Did some #audiocooking. I‘m a bit divided on THE QUEEN‘S GAMBIT. I find it fascinating as a sports story and it‘s been interesting to see how it compares to the show, but I‘m not a fan of Walter Tevis‘s contraction-free narrative. (He does use contractions in his dialogue.) It‘s choppy and stilted to my ear, and the narrator‘s delivery doesn‘t help. I think maybe she and I both have the wrong accent for what Tevis hears in his head as he writes.

Happy pi day! Happy also to “this book is making me soooo stressed!”

#AudioCooking

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Deer stronganoff and homemade outback bread. 😍😍😍 Then Sirius had the audacity to go and die and ruin my mood

It felt appropriate to do some #audiocooking while I sank into a book about a talented teenage cook. BLOOD LIKE MAGIC starts off with some major infodumping, but after last night‘s arancini-making session and a couple other tasks today, I‘ve made it far enough in that I‘m invested in the characters and their world. I loveloveLOVE how trans-inclusive Sambury‘s near-future Canada is, too.

It's Friday and you know what that means? Yup...ANOTHER freaking snowstorm. I really don't know where we are going to put it all at this point. 😕 A little bit of snow day comfort food is definitely in order today so chicken stew it is!! 😋

#audiocooking #snowday #snowedin #imoverit #sendsummer

I‘m #audiocooking today, making tea eggs and dumplings for the lunar new year celebration!

#20in4 update: 10 hours and 10 minutes so far. @Andrew65

The second book was just as good as the first. As a youth librarian, I don‘t often continue with series as there is always so much else to read, but this one 🧡🧡🧡 The ending oof and then oof again 💔💔 I‘m eagerly awaiting book three this fall. #audiocooking