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      • Recipe :: Cheesy Apples
      • Recipe :: Chopped Brussels Sprouts
      • Recipe :: Kale and Brussel Sprout Salad
      • Recipe :: Tabouli
      • Recipe :: Tomato Pie
    • Mains
      • Recipe :: Beef Tenderloin
      • Recipe :: Roasted Turkey and Brine
      • Recipe :: Shrimp & Grits
      • Recipe :: Thai Quinoa Salad
    • Sweet Stuff
      • Recipe :: Cranberry Orange Cake
      • Recipe :: Boiled Custard
      • Recipe :: Caramel Apple Cake
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      • Recipe :: Cinnamon Rolls
      • Recipe :: Lemon Sugar Cookies
      • Recipe :: Trifle in a Glass
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Rating Round Up for books in 2021-2022
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Book Club :: Ratings Round Up 2021-22

Reader beware! If last year was a peak in 4-star ratings for our book club, this year may have been a valley. That said, it […] Read More

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Review Revisited :: The movie Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing hits theaters. The review I posted about the book in 2019 has garnered 144,000 hits and 135 comments. That post alone catapulted the number of Lit&Leisure’s unique visitors to nearly 60k in 2020 and has kept the monthly average above 2k. Obviously, something I wrote resonated.

Book Club 2022-2023 Selections
Book Clubs Posted onJune 26, 2022June 26, 2022

Book Club :: Short List for 2022-2023

Here it is – my Book Club’s 2022-2023 Short List Book Selections! Thanks to all who contributed their thoughts on the Facebook post of my […] Read More

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Restaurant Review :: hook & barrel

It has been a hot minute since I’ve written a restaurant review but our latest experience at one of our favorite Myrtle Beach restaurants – […] Read More

Short reviews of my 2022 Beach Reads
Book Clubs, Book Reviews, Books Posted onJune 14, 2022January 31, 2023

Book Review Shorts :: 2022 Beach Reads

The Sea, The SeaThis Booker Award winner from 1978 is the story of Charles Arrowby, a retired theater director who leaves London and rents a […] Read More

Long List of Book Selection Options for 2022-2023
Book Clubs Posted onMay 30, 2022May 30, 2022

Book Clubs :: Long List for 2022-2023

The years are flying. It doesn’t feel like it has been that long since posting last year’s book club long-list and subsequent short-list, but here […] Read More

Book Review of The Source
Book Reviews, Books, Out and About Posted onMay 13, 2022May 13, 2022

Book Review :: The Source

I first learned of The Source from a list of suggested readings prior to my trip to Israel in 2019. At 900 pages, there wasn’t […] Read More

A menu for hosting a thematic book club dinner
Book Clubs, Cooking, Things I Love Posted onApril 30, 2022April 30, 2022

Recipe :: Middle Eastern Mezze

This isn’t your normal recipe post. Sometimes the stars align, and I get to host my book club when we’re reading something that really lends […] Read More

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Things I Love :: Financial Literacy

April is Financial Literacy Month, so I’m squeaking in a post about a topic I’ve been immersing myself in for about two years. I don’t […] Read More

Recipe Cinnamon Rolls
Cooking, Sweet Stuff, Things I Love Posted onMarch 15, 2022March 15, 2022

Recipe :: Cinnamon Rolls

An incredibly versatile bread recipe makes the most amazing (and dangerously simple) homemade cinnamon rolls.

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Consequences
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Consequences
by Penelope Lively
The Four Winds
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The Four Winds
by Kristin Hannah
Oh William!
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Oh William!
by Elizabeth Strout
All Our Wordly Goods
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All Our Wordly Goods
by Irène Némirovsky
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by Kerry Patterson

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