http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:20:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are some types of food that do lend themselves to sophisticated techniques of interrogation. When an Italian restaurant is suggested, for instance, I always say, "Who controls the city around here?" I suppose a good Italian restaurant could exist in a city that doesn't have enough Italians to constitute ... http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2010/03/09/teaser-tuesday-5/ Title: The Sixty-Eight Rooms Author: Marianne Malone Published: 2010 My edition: Random House Hardcover 2010 Purchased From: Barnes and Noble Greenwich Village Pages: 269 Synopsis (from Strand): Every Chicagoan knows about the Thorne Rooms in the Art Institute of Chicago. Sixty-eight miniature rooms, depicting rooms from European homes throughout the centuries, in immaculate detail, precise right ... http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2010/03/06/the-sixty-eight-rooms-by-marianne-malone/ I've been enjoying the Casson family series by Hilary McKay. This month I finished the third, Permanent Rose. I don't feel the need to post a full review of it, but here are a few of my favorite lines from the book: "I always say a little prayer when I put ... http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2010/02/28/permanent-rose-by-hilary-mckay/ In the canteen there was a television that was always on. I began to learn more about life in your country. I watched programs called Love Island and Hell's Kitchen and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and I worked out how I would kill myself on all of those ... http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2010/02/23/teaser-tuesday-4/ Title: The Help Author: Kathryn Stockett Published: 2009 My edition: Putnam Hardcover 2009 Purchased From: Book Depository Pages: 451 Synopsis (from Strand): Set deep in the heart of Mississippi, circa 1962, "The Help" offers readers an enchanting and original journey into the trying lives and times of three very different women who chose to come together ... http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2010/02/22/the-help-by-kathryn-stockett/ Daddy flipped the switch. In the seconds it took to really get going, cake flour blew up from the mixing bowl and swirled around the room, recipes flapped off the counter and caught fire on the stovetop. Constantine snatched the burning roll of parchment paper, quickly dipped it in the ... http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2010/02/16/teaser-tuesday-3/ My goal of making 52 new recipes this year is off to a very fun start. I love that it's making me try new recipes instead of making my old standbys over and over again. I'm hoping to have a much larger repertoire of favorites by the end of the ... http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2010/02/15/beer-batter-cheese-bread/ The man who had knocked at the door, was a stout personage of middle height, aged about fifty: with shiny black hair, cropped pretty close; half-whiskers, a round face, and sharp eyes. The other was a red-headed, bony man, in top-boots; with a rather ill-favoured countenance, and a turned-up sinister-looking ... http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2010/02/09/teaser-tuesday-2/ Books Purchased: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Kitchen Essays by Agnes Jekyll The Help by Kathryn Stockett Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker Books Read: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo Wishful Drinking ... http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2010/02/07/polysyllabic-spree-january-2010/ Title: The Left Hand of Darkness Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Published: 1969 My edition: Ace Paperback 2000 Purchased From: Barnes and Noble Lincoln Square Pages: 304 Synopsis (from Strand): Winner of HUGO and NEBULA Awards for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year. The story of a lone human emissary's mission to Winter, an unknown ... http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2010/02/07/the-left-hand-of-darkness-by-ursula-k-le-guin/