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Well-Read to an Antisocial Degree | Books I Adore
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items I love books so much, you guys. Here's where you'll find old faves and new friends, as well as whatever it is I am currently reading!
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Current Reads
Cookery
Nordic Noir
My Cozy Comfort Picks
Rainbow Literature
Current Reads
What have I got my nose stuck into RIGHT NOW?
Set partly in my beloved Bergen, I'm really enjoying this story of profound loss and extreme hope.
The Storm Sister: The Seven Sisters, Book 2
Honestly, this book is a big comfort read for me, and I began re-reading it again on my recent trip. It's not a GREAT book and it can get a little White Lady Tears about yoga, but as a yoga lover and chick-lit enthusiast, it's a decent little story t...
The Yoga Teacher
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An old favorite and an easy listen while I'm cooking or don't feel like physically reading a book or listening to music.
The Girl Who Played With Fire
Cookery
The most delicious guides!
It's such a gorgeous cookbook and Ottolenghi is a master of flavor. You'll make dishes that are delicious to the mouth and the eyes! Perfect for your vegetarian cooking friend, if they don't already have it.
Plenty: Vibrant Veg Recipes from Ottolenghi
I owned this cookbook for probably twenty years, a hefty tome I carted from house to house in Texas. It's a fantastic resource for vegetarian recipes at all cooking skill levels.
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
This is a gorgeous cookbook full of really amazing Nordic recipes. Nevada has never failed me, and I used the heck out of this book. If my mom comes to visit me, I am having her dig it out of my book box and bring it! That's how much I love it.
North Wild Kitchen: Home Cooking Norway
A selection of really nice, simple, but filling soups from a monk who, you can really see, loved his work. A firm favorite!
Twelve Months of Monastery Soups: A Cookbook
Can you tell I truly love soup? I do. Best thing. And Anna Thomas is a real soup connoisseur plus of course she's a legend in vegetarian cooking circles. This is a fabulous cookbook full of really gorgeous soups. Honestly, I loved just flipping throu...
Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes
Jack Monroe is such a clever cook, they really make so much out of so little. And now they've even made tin canned food good! Incredible work.
Tin Can Cook: 75 Simple Store-cupboard Recipes
Nordic Noir
Cold climes, cold crimes.
This is DARK dark, but so good, so twisty. And Mia Kruger is the type of broken brilliant detective that I love most.
I'm Traveling Alone: A Novel (Holger Munch & Mia Kruger 1)
This book is dark but so entirely hilarious, like literally laugh out loud absurd, it's murder with slapstick and I have never recommended a book harder. Any time I am asked for a Nordic Noir rec, I practically grab people and shake them when I tell ...
The Man Who Died
THE iconic Nordic Noir. My first introduction to the world. I love these books, but only the original trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is a literary icon. We lost so much when we lost Stieg Larsson.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series
My Cozy Comfort Picks
My definition of comfort and yours might not be the same
A novel about friendship between an Irish girl and an English refugee during WWII. But also so much more. This is a real brick of a book and there's tension and sadness and outdated ways of thinking. But Aisling and Elizabeth pull me back in every ti...
Light a Penny Candle
I can't begin to tell you how much better than the movie this book is. I mean am I glad we got some powerhouse performances out of Minnie Driver, Alan Cumming, and Saffron Burrows? Yes. But we lost Clodagh and Fonsie in the process and that is UNFORG...
Circle Of Friends by Light a Penny Candle Author
As someone who loves languages, Italian food, romanticizing simple things, and ensemble stories… this book is my ultimate re-read. I have lost track of how many times I have re-read it. One of Binchy's best, imho.
Evening Class: A Novel
Rainbow Literature
We're here, we're queer, we're writing books about it
A hard, sad read at times, especially if you have religious upbringing trauma. But Winterson's use of metaphor is so poetic and perfect, and the side characters are colorful and really help flesh out the setting and time. I do love re-reading this, e...
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Winterson
My high school physics teacher gave me this book to remind me that I was a “Southern girl,” and I don't think she knew it was a lesbian love story that subsequently was a real awakening for me. I love it so much. Another book where we got a good movi...
Fried Green Tomatoes at Whistle Stop Cafe
OK, a rare case where I prefer the movie, but that's mostly because the actors are just so damn CHARMING. It's still a good book, I am a sucker for an epistolary rom-com!
Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel
One of my ALL TIME favorites, it's gorgeous, it's lurid, it's sexy, it's sweet. A young oyster girl in Victorian England meets a young vaudeville boy impersonator and falls in love, goes on a literal and emotional journey, falls on hard times, gender...
Tipping the Velvet: A Novel