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Joy of Liberace: Retro Recipes from America’s Kitschiest Kitchen

Rhinestones and Recipes Authors: Michael Feder and Karan Feder Not too long ago, I had a Liberace-themed costume party, as you do, and naturally I wanted the refreshments to be as authentically Liberacean as possible. Liberace did publish his own cookbook in 1970, Liberace Cooks!, but it’s out of print and hard to find these days. Luckily, Michael and Karan Feder have revived some of its retro-est recipes in a new cookbook, Joy of Liberace: Retro Recipes from America’s Kitschiest Kitchen. At first glance, this seems to be mostly a novelty coffee-table book. From the garish, eye-popping artwork to the [...]

2023-05-29T23:51:40-07:00October 12th, 2013|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Reading List: Time-Traveling Romances

If you think books about time travel are all nerdy sci-fi and not enough passion, think again! This hand-picked selection of novels explores the romantic possibilities — and complexities — that arise when past, present, and future collide. While the methods of transportation vary from stone pillars to malevolent houses to good old unexplained authorial magic, you’re guaranteed to swoon in delight as these chronologically challenged lovers find each other across time. All Our Wrong Todays Author: Elan Mastai Technically, I guess this is more of an alternate-timeline book than time travel, but it’s so fun and cleverly executed, who [...]

2017-08-15T23:09:02-07:00August 22nd, 2013|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Shining Girls, The

Shine On Author: Lauren Beukes Spoiler Alert: Minor character spoilers in the time-travel analysis section. Won’t ruin the book. I’m slowly working my way through my own summer 2013 fiction reading list (one downside of living in the highly literate city of Seattle is that there’s tons of competition for hot library books). The Shining Girls made a lot of must-read lists this season for its fresh twist on the serial-killer theme: a would-be victim turns the tables, going on the hunt for her attacker. This is complicated by the fact that he can travel in time, aided by a [...]

2016-12-31T17:56:04-07:00July 21st, 2013|Tags: , , , , , , |
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