Slice of Life is a regular update on the latest in my life. This is where I write about my books, movies, tv, food, fashion, family or whatever subjects are on my mind this week. It’s just a little glimpse of my slice. (“But what about the great deals on books?!” Just keep on scrollin’.)
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- The most perfect exercise (and one that I do pretty much every day) and how to do it correctly.
- All the staying home has created a slower life that we have been embracing at our house. It might be time for my clothes (and especially my closet) to reflect this new normal.
- Last week we had a great time at our farm in East Texas. We mostly worked on improvements to the little cabin we have there, but also found time to fish, swim, visit with family and of course, celebrate our amazing nation, in all its flawed glory, with fun, food and fireworks. This coming weekend, I plan on hiding out from the triple-digit heat indoors, and hope to finish this gem (below) which I have been reading (and loving).
Weekend Reading: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
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Recent Reads: 12 Mini Reviews from April and May 2020 – here is a snapshot of my recent books with a few words on each book (DNFs too!). {Pin this Post}
Dutch Oven Pizza Recipe – Did you know you can make pizza in a dutch oven over your campfire? It’s an easy and yummy way to shake up your outdoor cooking routine. {Pin this Post}
Dutch Oven Roasted Potatoes – Take the makings for this dish on your next camping trip and prepare for minds to be blown. {Pin this Post}
Amazing Book Deals
Whether I have read (and loved) it, heard about it from fellow bookish friends or actually have it on my own “to be read” list, each book below made this list because it’s on my radar (AND because it’s on sale). Note: Book bargains are subject to change so act fast!
NOTE: My weekly book deals list will soon be moved out of “Slice of Life” and onto to its own page on my site. The new book deals page will be updated (and emailed to my mailing list) on a weekly basis.
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathanial Philbrick
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Last Day by Luanne Rice
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Don’t Overthink It by Anne Bogel
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms (FREE with PRIME)
The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey (FREE with PRIME)
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
The Widow by Fiona Barton
Daughters of the Lake by Wendy Webb
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson (free with PRIME)
The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
If You Tell by Gregg Olsen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The First Girl Child and What the Wind Knows (FREE with PRIME) by Amy Harmon
Audiobook Deals
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For by David McCullough
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Devolution by Max Brooks
The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Whisper Man by Alex North
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Gulp by Mary Roach
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond
1984 by George Orwell
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
An Everlasting Meal by Tamar Adler
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Virgin River by Robyn Carr
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
The Guest Book by Sarah Blake
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Near Witch by V.E. Schwab
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia Macneal
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Middlemarch by George Eliot
