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Book Review: Starting from Scratch by Susan Gilbert-Collins

Preferring discretion over valor, I won’t refer to Starting from Scratch, the first novel from South Dakota native Susan Gilbert-Collins, as “chick lit.” So, how about “food lit”?

All right, while the book involves cooking from scratch and is interspersed with recipes, that also is probably a little too flip Gilbert-Collins, in fact, is looking […]

Weekend Edition: 9-18

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The South Dakota Festival of Books begins Thursday evening and runs through the weekend. Although there is no fee to attend most sessions, you need to register. You can register online through Monday and at the event. You can also buy tickets for the workshops and special events through Wednesday. A complete schedule […]

Friday Follies 2.31

Romanian legislators say fear may have been to blame for the defeat of their bill to tax witches and fortune tellers. The bill would also have held fortune tellers liable for wrong predictions. (via)

A Wisconsin woman was arrested for possession of marijuana — after allegedly stealing it from the back of the town […]

Midweek Music Moment: Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, Meat Loaf

We all have guilty pleasures — music, books or movies that we’re a bit abashed to admit we enjoy. For me, one of those is Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell.

As the title suggests, the album is the follow-up to Meat Loaf’s first solo album, 1977’s Bat Out of Hell, […]

My life as a book title – 2010

I did this meme on my birthday last year and since it’s been revamped for 2010, I thought I might do it this day each year it’s around. Basically, you just complete the sentence with a title of a book you’ve read during the current year. Here’s this year’s story/summary of my life (although I’m […]