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  Welcome back to my Sunday confessions where I recap what went down on the blog this last week. Enjoy! Sunday Confessions #230 ~ Weekly Menu #537 And The Book Of The Week ~ Book Review: The Fragile Thread of Power by V.E. Schwab ~ Book Review: Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World by Dan Koeppel Weekly Menu #538 And The Book Of The Week ~ Book Review: The Stalker by Sarah Alderson ~ Book Review: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston ~ Sunday Confessions #232 FourFiveSeconds by Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCarthy. 140/100 2023 Reading Challenge ~ 58/196 in my  Star Wars Legends challenge ~ 70/341  Gilmore Girls challenge ~ 90/100 in my  100 books before you die challenge We're down to the last day of 2023. I'm super proud of the headway I've made on the challenges this year and can't wait to finish them off next year.  Happy reading, my friends!

 My book review for Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World by Dan Koeppel. Title: Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World By: Dan Koeppel Genre: Non-Fiction Pages: 281 Release Date: December 27th, 2007 Publisher: Hudson Street Press Rating: ★★★★☆   Summary from Goodreads: A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the world's most humble fruit To most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. In others parts of the world, bananas are what keep millions of people alive. But for all its ubiquity, the banana is surprisingly mysterious; nobody knows how bananas evolved or exactly where they originated. Rich cultural lore surrounds the fruit: In ancient translations of the Bible, the 'apple' consumed by Eve is actually a banana (it makes sense, doesn't it?). Entire Central American nations have been said to rise and fall over t...

My book review on The Fragile Threads of Power by V.E. Schwab. Title: The Fragile Threads of Power By: V.E. Schwab Genre: Fantasy Pages: 648 Release Date: September 26th, 2023 Publisher: Tor Books Rating: ★★★☆☆   Summary from Goodreads: Once, there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power, and connected by a single city: London. Until the magic grew too fast, and forced the worlds to seal the doors between them in a desperate gamble to protect their own. The few magicians who could still open the doors grew more rare as time passed and now, only three Antari are known in recent memory―Kell Maresh of Red London, Delilah Bard of Grey London, and Holland Vosijk, of White London. But barely a glimpse of them have been seen in the last seven years―and a new Antari named Kosika has appeared in White London, taking the throne in Holland's absence. The young queen is willing to feed her city with blood, including her own―but her growing religious ...

  Hello Monday! Welcome back to my weekly menu where I share all the delicious recipes we will be making this week. Of course, its Christmas and I'm super excited to spend time with my family and share food and drink with them. Its going to be a good day. I hope you all have some place warm and wonderful to be today. This weeks read is not a Christmas tale, but the promise of a quirky tale of romance. My friend from work said this was a book wroth reading, and she's usually not wrong. Dive into Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston with me after we've eaten far to many Christmas goodies. Lets get to this weeks menu. Enjoy and Merry Christmas! WEEKLY MENU Monday Epic Beef Nachos Kids - Nachos   Tuesday English Muffin Pizzas   Wednesday Beefy Melt Burrito Kids - Cheese Quesadilla   Thursday Chicken Ricotta Meatballs Kids - Chicken Nuggets and Cheese   Friday Pork Scaloppine Kids - Chicken Tenders and Ranch   Saturday Spaghetti Night Kids - Mac and Ch...

  Hello Sunday! Welcome back to my confessions, where I recap what's happened on the blog. Sunday Confessions #229 ~ Weekly Menu #536 And The Book Of The Week ~ Book Review: The Lotus Flower Champion by Pintip Dunn ~ Book Review: The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden Weekly Menu #537 And The Book Of The Week ~ Book Review: The Fragile Thread of Power by V.E. Schwab ~ Book Review: Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World by Dan Koeppel ~ Sunday Confessions #231 Currently catching up on The Amazing Race. 138/100 2023 Reading Challenge ~ 58/196 in my  Star Wars Legends challenge ~ 70/341  Gilmore Girls challenge ~ 90/100 in my  100 books before you die challenge Tomorrow is Christmas so I can't imagine I will get much reading down, but you never know. Have a great holiday and happy reading.

My book review on The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden. Title: The Warm Hands of Ghosts By: Katherine Arden Genre: Historical Pages: 336 Release Date: February 13th, 2024 Publisher: Del Rey Rating: ★★★★★   Summary from Goodreads: During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist from the  New York Times   bestselling author of   The Bear and the Nightingale January 1918.  Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, she receives word of Freddie’s death in combat, along with his personal effects—but something doesn’t make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital. Soon after arriving, she hears whispers about ...