• Recently Read 2|| The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp by Eva Rice

    Recently Read 2|| The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp by Eva Rice

    Reading a good book is something like eating your favourite meal: you want to savour every bite, wanting it to last longer. That’s exactly how I felt when I read Eva Rice’s The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp.

    The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp
    Eva Rice
    2013, Heron Books
    583 pages

    Summary

    In this novel, we get to meet Tara Jupp, a seventeen-year-old girl living in 1960s Britain. A minister’s daughter living in Cornwall, she lives with her father and her many siblings. (more…)

  • Preparing for a new semester.

    Preparing for a new semester.

    Well, hello there! And hello, August!

    We’re having a pretty late start where the first semester is concerned, but with the world being pretty much upside down at the moment, it’s understandable. I’ve gotten word that enrollment will start mid-August. And that’s just mighty fine with me.

    I’m pretty excited yet apprehensive. I don’t know how online learning is going to pan out. I guess we shall wait and see. (more…)

  • Finally, a success: My attempt at making salted caramel

    Finally, a success: My attempt at making salted caramel

    In all my years of [novice] cooking and baking, there’s nothing I dread more than making caramel. My first attempt was not so much a disaster, it was more like a carnage. (more…)