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The death of cooking has been greatly exaggerated
A YouTuber I watch occasionally lamented in a recent video that “No one cares about the art of cooking anymore.” She went on to describe how cooking is a dying art and implies that the lack of home food preparation is a sign of society’s downfall. It’s not terribly notable that someone in their early […]
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Bullet Journal
I know this place is mostly a bookblog but the Venn Diagram of book people and stationary people is basically a circle and I am smack in the middle. So, of course I am the user of a bullet journal. What else I am supposed to do with all these adorable stationary supplies I am […]
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Underchoice
It’s no secret that I am an American Book Center stan. It’s certainly my favorite bookstore in the Netherlands (the Den Haag location of course) and I spend entirely too much money there. But each visit is a time investment. The science fiction section is large and well-stocked, so I want to see every title. […]
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Reading Goals 2023
New year, new reading goals. Last year, I set myself several reading goals focusing mostly on the numbers. I wanted various to-be-read lists to be shorter. (Looking back even further, a few years ago I set myself the goal of cutting my to-read list down to a manageable size. I started with 322 books shelved […]
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Top Books of 2022
(Did I finish one last book on NYE so I could check the Bible in at (1)69? Yes.) Here are the best books I read last year, in no particular order: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky ChambersGirl, Woman, Other by Bernardine EvaristoThe Appointment by Katharina VolckmerI Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline […]