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Month: February 2016

The Good Wife

by athena // 24 February, 2016 // No Comments
This post contains majors spoilers for The Good Wife. Continue reading →

How to Bake by Paul Hollywood

by athena // 22 February, 2016 // No Comments
This is the first of three Paul Hollywood books I will review. As someone who loves baking, most of my cookbooks are focused on baking from the sweet to savoury to bread. This book covers that. It is the British... Continue reading →

The Fast Diet by Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer

by athena // 18 February, 2016 // 2 Comments
Like many others, I became more interested in Intermittent Fasting (IF) after watching Dr Mosley’s BBC Horizon programme on it. I began to realize that this would be the only diet that I could ever do. It’s more of an... Continue reading →

How to Cook Everything: The Basics by Mark Bittman

by athena // 16 February, 2016 // 2 Comments
When looking through my cookbooks I am surprised I had never written about this book. I love this cookbook. This is the photographic edition of Mark Bittman’s How to Cook: The Basics. I have two other Bittman cookbooks largely because... Continue reading →

The Shepherd’s Life: A People’s History of the Lake District by James Rebanks

by athena // 14 February, 2016 // No Comments
This is a lovely memoirs with a perspective that is not often featured in the mainstream media or in stories. It is written by a shepherd who is well educated and uses modern technology, but farms in a traditional way.... Continue reading →

FO: Pogona

by athena // 12 February, 2016 // 4 Comments
I really enjoyed this pattern overall. It only had two rows and was very easy to knit with while watching movies or TV. I didn’t feel pressured to finish it and loved going back to it. I don’t always wear... Continue reading →

William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher

by athena // 10 February, 2016 // 2 Comments
This was a really amusing adaptation of the Star Wars: A New Hope in Shakespearean form. The author admits to finding iambic pentameter a natural. I wish I did, but this was enjoyable. I think he did a good job... Continue reading →

Important: Blog Feed and Subscribe

by athena // 8 February, 2016 // No Comments
Hello! It recently came to my attention that my Feedburner RSS feed was no longer updating. It’s been broken for months. I have tried to fix it myself to no avail and learned that Google offers no support for Feedburner.... Continue reading →

Monthly Movies – January 2016

by athena // 3 February, 2016 // No Comments
Movies in Theatres: For some reason, Wordpres didn’t save that last month I saw Star Wars: The Force Awakens on 29 December 2015. I enjoyed it. I really look forward to rewatching it on DVD and the next episode in... Continue reading →
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