Chocolate-Flecked Multigrain Muffins...
// Edit: Sunday, October 28th at 8:52pm. Well friends, it’s time to announce the winner of the raffle! I had planned to write a new post for this, but alas I am plain tuckered out. The random number picker hath decreed that comment #55 is the winner, which means that Teya won a copy of “Enlightened...
Baked Sandwich Surprise...
A couple of weeks ago I posted on the Chowhound message boards requesting ideas for vegetarian sandwiches that would keep (i.e. not get soggy) until the afternoon. “Any ideas?” I asked, hoping they could help me solve the one aspect of my new found vegetarianism (since June ‘07) that...
Pumpkin Currant Cookies...
A couple of weeks ago my friend Becky asked if I knew any good vegan baking recipes. Her daughter, who has just gone off to college, is starting a baking business in her dorm but most of the residents are vegans so - what to do? I had a few nut-based ideas but then Becky told me that nuts were also...
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride By Daniel James Brown
It's not often that a history book will compel me to set all my novels aside, but "The Indifferent Stars Above" certainly did. Within the first few pages I was spellbound. I had to know how Sarah, a young woman newly married to her childhood sweetheart, would end up on top of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the dead of winter, starving and forced to do unspeakable things in order to survive.
"The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride" tells the story of the Donner Party from the perspective of newlyweds Sarah Graves and Jay Fosdick. In April of 1846 the couple joined Sarah's family as they journeyed west from Illinois to the promised land of California. (Read the rest of this review...)
