Sunday Post: Lots of Cabbage

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Last week was basically taken up with working and blogging. I was supposed to make sauerkraut (fermented) yesterday but the Farmer’s Almanac says it’s a bad day for that, and my Mom went by that religiously. I’m going to stick by that since she made the best sauerkraut ever. There really isn’t a good day for making sauerkraut until next month, so I’m going to be eating a lot of sauteed cabbage for a while. I should have checked the almanac before I bought four heads of cabbage. Anyone with cabbage recipes, let me know!

Last Week I reviewed A Shadow in Moscow, The Echo of Old Books, and The Good, The Bad, and The History. I also participated in Book Blogger, Top Ten Tuesday, and Sunday Post.

Today I will be posting an Indie Weekend review of Darlene Foster’s You Can Take The Girl From The Prairie, as well as a Q&A with the author.

Tomorrow I’m posting a review of the audiobook of Gail Meath’s Songbird, the first book of her Jax Diamond series, which is now on audio.

Next Week I will participate in Top Ten Tuesday and Book Blogger Hop if time permits. I’m also going to review Zero Days by Ruth Ware.

BOOK HAUL

Lost Hours: A year after arriving in Benedict, Beth Rivers is feeling very at home in Alaska, even as outsiders are starting to return to enjoy the brief summer perfection. Beth feels like she’s finally let go of most of her demons. She’s even found her father, Eddy Rivers—or, rather, he found her—and she’s trying to find the middle ground between anger and forgiveness.

One sunny July day, Beth boards a tourist ship to see the glaciers, the main reason visitors venture to the area, and something Beth hasn’t attempted until now. But when the captain has to navigate to an island, a bloodied woman is found standing on the shore, waving for help. When she’s brought aboard, she claims she was kidnapped from her home in Juneau three days earlier, and that a bear on the island killed her captor. She, however, is unharmed.

The woman, Sadie, finds a sympathetic ear in Beth. She tells her that she’s been in Juneau under witness protection, and that the Juneau police don’t like her. When another kidnapping occurs, Beth and police chief Gril can’t help but think the two cases are interwoven, though the clues to solving them will be harder to unravel.

Case of the Bleus: Cheesemongers from across the Northwest have come to the Sonoma Valley for the Northwest Cheese Invitational. As owner of the local cheese shop, Curds & Whey, Willa Bauer loves it. The event showcases custom cheese creations, and it’s the perfect time to gather with old colleagues to honor her former boss, the late and grate cheese legend, Max Dumas. He was famous for journeying into the wild bleu yonder to where he aged his award-winning custom Church Bleu. Only Max knew the recipe and location to his beloved cheese, and many are eager to have these revealed at his will reading.

But instead of naming someone to inherit his cheese and its secrets, Max stuns everyone with one cryptic clue. When a fellow cheesemonger dies under mysterious circumstances––the woman they all thought would get the secrets to Max’s prized possession––everyone falls under suspicion. Willa adores Church Bleu as much as the next cheese connoisseur, but it’s not to die for. Is a killer trying to get away with murder…and the cheese?

That’s it for my week. Hope you have a great coming week.

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I love to read and write book reviews in my free time. I review advance review copies of books on Netgalley for various publishers. I am also a reviewer for Historical Novels Review Magazine, the magazine of the Historical Novel Society. I review books from publishers of all size, large to small. I have a special place in my heart for indie authors. I will sometimes post a little writing that I might dabble in occasionally. I also am lucky enough to live in the Smoky Mountains, so I'll be sharing photos of the beauty around me from time to time.

25 thoughts on “Sunday Post: Lots of Cabbage”

  2. I really enjoyed Zero Days and I also got Lost Hours. I’ve planted my summer crops now, should have been earlier but that’s how it goes when you build a new bed. I don’t think we will get much from them until September. I may have green beans, tomatoes and peppers in August though, also Swiss chard.

    Anne – Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post

    1. No garden for me this year, sadly. We’re moving next year and are going to put off starting a new garden until after we move. We are growing tomatoes in buckets, because store-bought tomatoes are just tasteless.

  3. Both of these books sound great and I enjoy reading books set in placed I’ve visited. Oh no about the cabbage! I love that you’re honouring your Mom’s tradition surrounding the Farmer’s Almanac! Have a wonderful week ahead Bonnie.

  4. All the recipes I have are for prepared sauerkraut, like my sauerkraut and onion pierogi…yum. I’ve had fried cabbage with bacon that was good (although not exactly healthy:)

  6. Oddly enough, while I like sauerkraut, I’, not a big of cabbage (go figure). And actually I probably only like sauerkraut because it reminds me of my dad. 🙂

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