Puffin Plated: A Book-to-Table Reading Experience
A
deluxe, full-color hardback edition of the perennial Jane Austen
classic featuring a selection of recipes for tea-time treats by the one
and only Martha Stewart!
Have your book and eat it, too, with
this clever edition of a classic novel, featuring delicious recipes
from celebrity chefs. In this edition of Jane Austen's regency classic Pride and Prejudice, plan
a fancy tea party or book club gathering with recipes for sweet
confections and pastries. From maple glazed scones and delicate sugar
and spice cake, to berry tartlets and French macaroons. Bring your
friends and family together with a good meal and a good book!
Book includes full, unabridged text of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, interspersed with recipes, food photography, and special food artwork.
This book is every sort of beautiful!
Happy Reading!
Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
Here's the wonderful November box from Fairyloot! I already had the book but that's okay! I love this freaking box!
The picture below has one of the coolest items I have ever seen! They are galaxy straws! Yes!! Galaxy Straws, the are shiny and have colors to them when you turn them around and they have a little scrub brush that came with them as they are hard and to be used over and over! And there is a galaxy bath bomb! You guys know I don't use those but it's so pretty I'm just going to put it on a shelf =)
Next is a tote bad inspired by the Illiuminae files and made by Evie Bookish! I love her and I love the tote.
Then we have a beautiful card with a code on the back to get a free ecopy of the book, Atlas Fallen by Jessica Pierce and we have the spoiler card and bookmark.
Next we have a beautiful passport cover, a wooden ornament with a William Shakespeare quote and an iron on patch with a quote from Red Rising! Yesssss!
Then we have an awesome coaster set inspired by The Lunar Chronicles! I love them!
And last but not least, we have Skyward by Brandon Sanderson! I love this book!
I'm very impressed with this whole box!
I hope you guys enjoyed!
Happy Reading!
Mel ♥
Here are again for another unboxing. And another book that is the same book I got last month from Fairyloot. I do love the Fairyloot book more because it has the beautiful sprayed edges. I don't know how much longer I will keep these book boxes since I have been getting some of the same books lately. Sigh... Well here we go.
Next we have a pillowcase by Evie Bookish over at Society6! I love her! The pillow case is inspired by An Ember in the Ashes
We have an adorable Harry Potter sticker =) Along with sticker decal of the book and the Owlcrate button
Next we have a craft kit to make a wish bracelet. It looks really cool! And a postcard
Next we have a beautiful a wax seal kit to use when writing to your pen pals! It's quite lovely.
Then we have an awesome skull planter for you little flowers! How cool is that!
And finally we have the book: Girls of Paper and Fire
I hope you have enjoyed the pictures!
Love,
Mel ♥
Sweetness can be deceptive.
Meet Hanna.
She’s the sweet-but-silent angel in the adoring
eyes of her Daddy. He’s the only person who understands her, and all
Hanna wants is to live happily ever after with him. But Mommy stands in
her way, and she’ll try any trick she can think of to get rid of her.
Ideally for good.
Meet Suzette.
She loves her daughter,
really, but after years of expulsions and strained home schooling, her
precarious health and sanity are weakening day by day. As Hanna’s tricks
become increasingly sophisticated, and Suzette's husband remains blind
to the failing family dynamics, Suzette starts to fear that there’s
something seriously wrong, and that maybe home isn’t the best place for
their baby girl after all.
From blazing new talent Zoje Stage, Baby Teeth is a story about a perfect-looking family, and a darling little girl who wants nothing more than to kill her mother.
For some reason I thought this book was going to be about an evil baby that ate people. I mean Baby Teeth right? . . .
This was NOT that fun book. What the hell was this book!? 
There is a plus side! 😄
Happy Reading!
Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
Swallow, Daughter,
pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside
your soul, hide them ‘til they’ve time to grow. Close your mouth upon
the power, curse not, cure not, ‘til the hour. You won’t speak and you
won’t tell, you won’t call on heav’n or hell. You will learn and you
will thrive. Silence, Daughter. Stay alive.
The day my mother
was killed, she told my father I wouldn’t speak again, and she told him
if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would trade
his soul and lose his son to the sky.
My father has a claim to
the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother’s
words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want
to be free.
But freedom will require escape, and I’m a prisoner
of my mother’s curse and my father’s greed. I can’t speak or make a
sound, and I can’t wield a sword or beguile a king. In a land purged of
enchantment, love might be the only magic left, and who could ever love .
. . a bird?
"Swallow Daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon
your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them 'til they've time
to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, 'til the
hour. You won't speak and you won't tell, you won't call on heav'n or
hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, daughter. Stay
alive."
My mother made words. She was a Teller, and her words were
magic. She spoke and the words became life. Reality. Truth. My father
knew it, and he was afraid. Words can be terrible when the truth is
unwelcome.
Omg!! This book was so freaking good! I mean holy sh•t
snacks! I have had this book on my kindle FOREVER and finally read it!
This book is magical! Seriously, there are a lot of magical beings in
the book.
Healers
Shifters
Tellers . . . etc. There are many different Guifted people. But a lot of people want them all killed!
Larks mom tried to save her by taking her voice from her as a child. She wanted her to be safe.
Lark
as a woman meets the love of her life. He teaches her to read in their
own special way. He can hear her thoughts. Can Lark and this man change
the rules and make things better. Can a man who is an Eagle save Lark as
she saved him?
Read it and see!
Happy Reading!!
Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
In Tell Her No Lies,
a new romantic suspense novel, talented author Kelly Irvin explores the
question of what makes a family—nature or nurture?—in a fast-paced race
to the truth.
As children, Nina Fischer and her sister
were plucked from foster care in Florida and brought to Texas by a
wealthy uncle they’d never met after their mother went to prison for
selling drugs. Now, as an adult, Nina loves her adopted father and wants
to please him, but she’s chosen her own career path as a photographer
and poet—choices state district court judge Geoffrey Fischer can’t
appreciate. When she finds him murdered in his study on a night they’re
home alone, she’s the prime suspect and has to prove her innocence or
face her own prison term. Is she her mother’s daughter, after all?
The
two men in her life want to help, each for their own reasons. Can she
trust her on-again, off-again boyfriend, attorney Rick Zavala, whose
political aspirations seem more important than Nina’s tragic loss? Can
she trust her friend, photographer Aaron McClure, or will he use their
friendship to break the biggest news story of his career?
While
cleaning out her father’s things, Nina discovers a box of old letters
and photos, revealing the secrets her father had been concealing for so
long. When her biological mother makes an appearance at Geoffrey
Fischer’s funeral and asks to be welcomed back into her daughters’
lives, Nina is even more determined to find the truth about her past.
Following the evidence leads her on a journey of discovery about her
father’s shocking masquerade as a law-abiding, family-loving Christian.
Unlocking these secrets could prove deadly, but it’s the only way Nina
will ever be able to trust love again.
I had a fun time with this book. We start out right away with the suspense; well maybe a few pages in and then the suspense.
Nina is up in the middle of the night getting her photography ready for a show they are having the next day. She does photography on homelessness, which I think is awesome!
Nina is on the phone with a friend of hers, Rick - I don't like him, and he's trying to get her to come out to a party but she's trying to get her work done and waiting on her friend Aaron (who ends up a love interest and I love him myself) He's a journalist and he's going to help Nina get her photos ready. Rick still tries to get her to come out with him but she doesn't and I'm glad, he just wants to get with her for reasons of his own.
Nina gets off the phone with Rick after she hers some noises and her cats are acting all crazy. She goes to another part of the house and finds her father dead. What happened to him? How did someone get inside the house? The police start to suspect Nina and it's just a race against the clock to find out who the real killer is and get Nina off the hook.
There is more to the story but I will leave that to you to read. Overall, I think it's a really good Christian Suspense book.
*Thank you to BookLookBloggers for a print copy of this book!
Happy Reading!
Mel ♥
