The Craft FantasticPicked up a great little paperback copy of ‘War Of The Worlds’ at lunch!
I love the illustration on the cover – and the font! Everything, in fact. This particular edition is from 1967. I found the image here, a fabulous page dedicated to War Of The Worlds covers dating back from 1898.
Beautiful cover, beautiful title, beautiful insides!
It’s a 21st Century Bestiary. “Ranging from the depths of the ocean to the most arid corners of the earth, Caspar Henderson captures the beauty and bizarreness of the many living forms we thought we knew and some we could never have contemplated, and invites us to better imagine the world around us.”
You can take a sneeky peek at the introduction on Amazon – you won’t regret it.
Pink strawberry flavour cupcakes, cream cheese frosting and good old sprinkles.
Simple to make and tasty. Kind of like making truffles; coat the moulds, make the filling (in this case, coffee mixed with sugar and heated, then poured over chopped choc and mixed till smooth) then pour into the set cases. When the filling is set and the top coat put on, smoosh a walnut half on.
Recipe taken from Miss Hope’s Chocolate Box.
Recent charity shop purchase:
And inside…
No idea what this book is, literally just saw the old cover and the fact it was 95p and bought it!
First visit to the charity shop this year and I visually stumbled upon ‘The Book Of Madness And Cures’ by Regina O’Melveny:
The title is as intriguing as the cover, and a quick scan of the blurb on the back cover (in short – a female doctor in Renaissance Venice is compelled to cross Europe in search of her father) confirmed my gut feeling- that I should buy the book immediately!
Oh, and I also picked up a copy of Pride And Prejudice And Zombies 🙂
It was the cover that caught my eye, sure, but then I saw the name ‘Joseph Gordon-Levitt’ and that made me carry on reading!
I saw this, the second volume, on a gift list ideas page in a free magazine- I have the person who left it on the train to thank for this one.
“The universe isn’t made of atoms; it’s made of tiny stories.”
Read more about this here.
For the first time, Amazon sent me a recommendation that was appropriate. Even though I’ve never purchased a Philip Pullman book from the site, they emailed me to let me know he had a new book out- Grimm Tales: For Old And Young. The hardback cover is just perfect:
I’ve put it on my Christmas list, but I’m not sure I can wait that long!
The husband chose cupcakes for me to make for his birthday, with chocolate frosting.
I made a simple sponge recipe, like the one I used for the reindeer cupcakes earlier this year. As my boy likes Bailey’s, I tried replacing the 2-3 tbsp of milk with Bailey’s- which tasted YUM in uncooked batter form, but sadly by the time they were baked it couldn’t be tasted at all. Sad face 🙁
After covering with chocolate butter icing, I decorated using some cupcake stencils- using icing sugar to stand out against the chocolately topping:
Cute, huh?
The Penguin Great Journeys series is a fabulous collection to own. Not only do the covers make for an extremely pleasing shelf display, but the titles are excellent to boot; not to mention the fact that they are great reads!
Travel back to the time when there were Snakes With Wings And Gold-Digging Ants:
Read about William Dampier’s sea adventures in Piracy, Turtles And Flying Foxes:
Learn how Ernest Shackleton faired in his Escape From The Antarctic:
Or tour Europe with Mark Twain in Can-cans, Cats And Cities Of Ash:
“Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries – but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.”