November 2009
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Writers I Like & Read
Literary (modern): A.S. Byatt, Edith Wharton, Jhumpa Lahiri, Margaret Atwood Thrillers: Kay Hooper, Iris Johansen, J.D. Robb Adventure: Alistair MacLean, Jeffrey Archer Brit humour: P.G. Wodehouse, John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey series) Mystery: Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, Anne Perry(Victorian mystery), Iain Pears(art mystery), Jacqueline Winspear, P.D. James, occasionally G.K....
Nov 23rd
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To Read
Lit & Other Literary (classics): Dickens, Edith Wharton, Tolstoy Literary (modern): A.S. Byatt, Edith Wharton, Jhumpa Lahiri, Margaret Atwood Thrillers: Kay Hooper, Iris Johansen, J.D. Robb To try: Vince Flynn, Ian Rankin Adventure: Alistair MacLean, Jeffrey Archer Brit humour: P.G. Wodehouse, John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey series) Mystery: Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, Anne...
Nov 13th
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C&I Favorite Things - Earl Grey Tea
It took me forever to start actually liking tea. Nasty bitter stuff, only slightly more tolerable than coffee, I always thought. And I still have a love/hate relationship with it(I am firmly convinced that it puts me to sleep instead of waking me up, hence depriving it of any caffeine value and leaving only relaxation value). But Earl Grey has definitely helped me on my way to tea illumination -...
Nov 5th