This is the first book I’ve read since devouring the Twilight series. It is also the first culinary mystery I’ve ever read. (I didn’t even know there was a culinary genre beforehand). But alas, this booked sucked. It was unpractical (not a crime – after all I did just finish a series on vampires and werewolves) and worse, interesting (no good remedy for that.) That said, the one happy memory I have from this book is that it was a gift from my Suzanne, the director of the costume shop where I worked in college.

I think this Twilight book is my favorite. Or maybe Eclipse…

Read all four Twilight Sagas in a week. And then reread them again, including what Stephenie Meyer’s published of Midnight Sun.

Yep – stayed up all night to finish Book 2 just 24 hrs after completing Book 1. What’s wrong with me?

Watched the film the night before; read the book the next day. Book’s definately better than the movie (although I kind of like the film’s adaptation of Bella.)

Sebastian & Helena’s story… (Yeah, yeah, yeah … I should have been doing Managerial Accounting…)

Finished this one on the plane home: Chillingworth & Francesca’s story…

Yet another Maui beach read: Lucifer & Phyllida’s story…

One of three romance novels I devoured on our Maui trip – this was Gabriel & Alathea’s story…

I started this on a long weekend ski vacation with my sister and some friends and finished it on the plane to Maui. Reminiscent of our own safari, the author’s charming, bittersweet stories are funny, entertaining, and illustrative. Most endearing are the stories about the people and animals that clearly captured his heart- Beau (the hairless baboon), Salvador (the pachaderm matriarch), Double-R (his colleague who dies of an unidentified Africian ailment). A fun read, I’d recommend this to most anyone…