Buttery Books Blog
February 19th, 2012
Weekend Cooking: Cracker Jack Recipe
I just finished reading The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach and now I have baseball and its unofficial anthem on my mind: Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd; Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don’t care if I never get back. Let me root, root, root [...]
Annie
February 19th, 2012
A Moveable Feast Read-a-Long: Week 3
The Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway Week 3 read-a-long and discussion hosted by Wallace at Unputdownables.net was very enlightening this past week. The focus of week 3 were the sketches on F. Scott Fitzgerald. There was quite an array of opinions expressed.
Annie
February 11th, 2012
A Moveable Feast Read-a-Long: Week 2
The A Moveable Feast: Week Two Read-a-Long discussion is going great. What I enjoy most about book discussions are the many varied insights expressed by other readers. It’s a great way to learn!
I am a Hemingway fan and I am LOVING A Moveable Feast. His various sketches on Paris and his fellow artists are amazing. His writings on Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein have me wanting to learn more about each of them.
Annie
February 3rd, 2012
A Moveable Feast Read-a-Long: Chapters 1-9
I have so far loved the Week 1 Chapters 1-9 A Moveable Feast Read-a-Long hosted by Wallace at Unputdownables.net. I am thoroughly enjoying Hemingway’s depictions of life in Paris as an expat, and I long to visit Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare & Company bookstore, to listen to Gertrude Stein’s pontificating and most especially to know his first wife Hadley.
Annie
January 28th, 2012
Weekend Cooking: Elephant Ears
Pomegranate Soup is filled with wonderful descriptions of foods and exotic aromas, and loaded with tantalizing recipes, like these Elephant Ears.
Annie
