Truthfully, holidays are all about the chow for me. If I am busy in the kitchen creating yummy vittles for guests, I do not have to be too sociable. Being a bookworm, this works out well for me. Indulging in cheer during the whole thing makes me all the more sociable when I finally do emerge with a tray of, oh, melted cheese over buttery pastry with chocolate sauce and something special for the holidays such as cream puffs stuffed with candy canes in butter sauce topped with red and green jimmys...

Find these holiday cookbooks and more on OWWL.


What can I bring? : cookbook
Byrn, Anne




Nigella Christmas : food, family, friends, festivities
Lawson, Nigella




Mastering the art of French cooking
Child, Julia




The gallery of regrettable food
Lileks, James




Christmas parties : what do I do?
Ripple, Wilhelminia

Some good books I have been listening to and reading:
Find them on OWWL.

Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future
Barbara J. Berg PhD








Ford County
John Grisham










The English Major
Harrison, Jim

On Veterans Day,

remember, Women are Veterans

and so are dogs.

Some interesting new non-fiction at Warsaw Public Library.
Find all these books on OWWL.


Read my pins : stories from a diplomat's jewel box by Albright, Madeleine Korbel.






How to survive the end of the world as we know it : tactics, techniques, and technologies for uncertain times by Rawles, James Wesley.




The guinea pig diaries : my life as an experiment by Jacobs, A. J.





Homer's odyssey : a fearless feline tale, or, how I learned about love and life with a blind wonder cat by Cooper, Gwen.





Cult insanity : a memoir of polygamy, prophets, and blood atonement by Spencer, Irene