Sara Reads Things

  Hello Monday! Happy Memorial Day. I hope you are outside on this glorious three day weekend, soaking up the sun and doing something fun. My family had an amazing trip yesterday to the Oregon coast. We rode the train and I'm pretty sure most the kids liked it. My oldest actually fell asleep on the ride back, which is not like him, but I will take that as a win. Lulled to sleep by a rickety old train car bouncing side to side. Sounds terrible, lol. Catch up on the sights of the Oregon coast on my Instagram. Link on the right side bar. This weeks book is The Porcelain Maker by Sarah Freethy. This book sounds interesting and I can't wait to see what it has to offer. What book are you reading this week? Lets get to this weeks menu. Enjoy! WEEKLY MENU Monday Beef Bulgogi Bowls Kids - Beef Ramen   Tuesday Ranch Chicken Wraps Kids - Cheese Quesadillas   Wednesday Chicken Parmesan Stuffed Peppers Kids - Grilled Cheese   Thursday Sheet Pan Italian Sausage Heros Kids - Chicke...

  Hello Sunday! What a weekend. My husband and I ran our butts off all all weekend and we are exhausted, but our outdoor dinning area is finally started. We ran into a slight issue while putting the posts for the walls in, but after some creative thinking, and a purposefully crooked wall, issue is fixed.  Keep up with our build on my Instagram. Link on the right. Sunday Confessions #200 ~ Weekly Menu #507 And The Book Of The Week ~ Book Review: Dracula By Bram Stoker ~ Book Review: Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover Weekly Menu #508 And The Book Of The Week ~ Book Review: No Perfect Places by Steven Salvatore ~ Book Review: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce ~ Sunday Confessions #202 One of my favorite recipes is smothered Fritos bowls. Its like ground beef tacos on a bed of crunchy Fritos chips. Its salty and flavorful. A wonderful dinner.  Recipe here The Morbid podcast is doing a deep five part dive into H.H. Holms that I'm totally here for. Obsessed! I also ...

  Title: Ugly Love By: Colleen Hoover Genre: Romance Pages: 333 Release Date: August 5th, 2014 Publisher: Atria Books Rating: ★★★★☆   Summary from Goodreads: When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her. Never ask about the past. Don’t expect a future. They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all. Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.   Add on Goodreads   Review: This story was raw and emotional. Although the enter...

  Title: Dracula By: Bram Stoker Genre: Fantasy Pages: 488 Release Date: May 26th, 1897 Publisher: Norton Rating: ★★★★☆   Summary from Goodreads: When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival. In  Dracula , Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire. This Norton Critical Edition includes a rich selection of background and source materials in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works ...