I love salads of all types and have made a favorite today including jicama and toasted pepitas and made a fresh watermelon vinaigrette. I also just requested the book, The Midnight Library from our library, and if I get it in time to do reading, I would love to join your next book chat. Thank you, Marg!
That salad sounds delicious. We don’t have jicamas here but I believe you can substitute nashi pears as they are quite crunchy. A watermelon vinaigrette sounds delightful, I’ve never hear of that either but it sounds very good.
If you have time to come to book group I would love that. Don’t worry if you haven’t finished the book, it’s always fun to meet fellow readers.
I’m not sure I which time and place I would choose to live in if I could--perhaps I would simply slip in and out of the books I love and follow the characters around, but then that’s kind of what happens when I read anyway! The salads look beautiful and delicious! Looking forward to the next Book Chat Book Club!
I like the idea of dipping in and out. It’s kind of what Lux does in The Valley of the Moon because she can go back and forth between 1906 and 1975.
I agree that reading is like time travelling anyway, especially when a book has a strong sense of time and place. To be honest, I think I would struggle with outdated attitudes to women if I time-travelled, not to mention racism and other social conditions. But wait, they all exist today, so maybe nothing has changed. 😀
Now I would really like to read The Valley of the Moon--not least because I lived in San Francisco in 1975 as a 20-something and visited the wine country, though I didn’t have a kid at the time. Yes, the racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. of that era DOES exist now unfortunately. I sometimes feel like it’s all déjà vu anyway—no need to time travel. 🥲
I love salads of all types and have made a favorite today including jicama and toasted pepitas and made a fresh watermelon vinaigrette. I also just requested the book, The Midnight Library from our library, and if I get it in time to do reading, I would love to join your next book chat. Thank you, Marg!
That salad sounds delicious. We don’t have jicamas here but I believe you can substitute nashi pears as they are quite crunchy. A watermelon vinaigrette sounds delightful, I’ve never hear of that either but it sounds very good.
If you have time to come to book group I would love that. Don’t worry if you haven’t finished the book, it’s always fun to meet fellow readers.
Thank you, Marg, I will keep the date close at hand for the book group discussion.
I’m not sure I which time and place I would choose to live in if I could--perhaps I would simply slip in and out of the books I love and follow the characters around, but then that’s kind of what happens when I read anyway! The salads look beautiful and delicious! Looking forward to the next Book Chat Book Club!
I like the idea of dipping in and out. It’s kind of what Lux does in The Valley of the Moon because she can go back and forth between 1906 and 1975.
I agree that reading is like time travelling anyway, especially when a book has a strong sense of time and place. To be honest, I think I would struggle with outdated attitudes to women if I time-travelled, not to mention racism and other social conditions. But wait, they all exist today, so maybe nothing has changed. 😀
Now I would really like to read The Valley of the Moon--not least because I lived in San Francisco in 1975 as a 20-something and visited the wine country, though I didn’t have a kid at the time. Yes, the racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. of that era DOES exist now unfortunately. I sometimes feel like it’s all déjà vu anyway—no need to time travel. 🥲
I genuinely think you would like it.