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About Stephanie Perry

Stephanie P. is a writer, editor, and blogger. Her secret shame is dystopian YA fiction. You can find her wherever the books and food are.

Little Free Library Series — Madrona Mini-Mansion

A few days ago, I happened to find myself in Seattle’s Madrona neighborhood (okay, okay, I was there to get a free ice cream cone from Molly Moon’s because I voted), and while I was walking around and eating my cone, I made an unexpected discovery: this adorable little free library, built and painted to look like a miniature version of the colorful Victorian house it sits in front of! Even though my to-read stack is dangerously high right now, I couldn’t resist taking a peek to see what was on the shelves. I was tempted by a vintage copy [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:37-07:00August 9th, 2014|

5 Cookbooks for Summer Cooking

Here in Seattle, we've had some unusually hot summer days — I’m talking temps in the 90s. And that means it is TOO HOT TO COOK. These great summer cookbooks will get you out of that stuffy kitchen and into the backyard, grilling up simple and delicious meals using fresh seasonal ingredients. Or if that seems like too much effort, feel free to simply pour yourself a mimosa for dinner and leaf through the pages as you slowly sweat to death in front of a fan. Summer Food: New Summer Classics As soon as you see the deliciously ripe heirloom [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:38-07:00July 30th, 2014|

Book Trailer Review: Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes

Today’s book trailer might be the scariest one I’ve ever seen — and that’s no surprise, considering that it’s for Broken Monsters, the new book by Lauren Beukes, author of time-traveling serial-killer thriller The Shining Girls. The trailer opens with a series of fleeting images: a sleeping parent and child, a battered old car idling on a street at night, a hand pointing in the shape of a gun. Next, as grainy, slightly dystopian surveillance video plays, a creepy older man whispers about taking a boy and altering him to make him more “beautiful” — a grotesque, disorienting shot of [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:38-07:00July 25th, 2014|Tags: |
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