Category: Book Reviews – Nonfiction

Trials of the Earth – Part 3: Homeward Bound

  Last year, I read a rather fascinating read about a pioneering family that settled in the Mississippi Delta (in Mississippi – not Arkansas).  Here […]

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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

Sorry, no recipe.  Since this book takes place in the United States (and today is Thanksgiving), there is not much of anything unique I want […]

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Forty Autumns: A Family’s Story of Courage and Old German Banana Bread

  Recipe link Honestly, I had some bananas I needed to use so found this recipe. To the book… I loved this book.  How many […]

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The Nazi Officer’s Wife (and two others I couldn’t finish) and beef goulash

  Recipe link First, I am totally shocked I actually tried a new recipe right now.  Since school has started, I have not felt like […]

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If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

  Due to the nature of the book, I felt that cooking a recipe would be somewhat insensitive.  I had never heard of this book […]

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Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey and Texas Cowboy Soup

  Recipe link Soup in the summer?  Why, yes!  Always! Year round!  Cheap, versatile… My recipe is a little different than the linked recipe because […]

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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust and Diphaphata

Recipe link Ok. So Diphaphata is not a traditional Rwandan recipe.  I could not find a Rwandan recipe that was simple to make with ingredients […]

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Three book reviews for the price of one (reading)… One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love, The Sanatorium: A Novel, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  I made this meme a few years ago.  It perfectly “explains” why this blog post is different than my previous posts: IT IS THE […]

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Upstairs at the White House and Coconut Macaroons

  Recipe link (scroll down) Finding a recipe for this book was a little tricky since the book detailed a thirty year time frame-  from FDR […]

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God and Government by Chuck Colson

  “A patriot sees the flaws of his country, acknowledges them, weeps for them, but remains faithful in love,” – Chuck Colson Anyone who knows […]

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