We'd love to get into a boisterous discussion about what's really going on in American kitchens - and your kitchen. Her first book was the best-selling memoir The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry, (Viking/Penguin 2007) she describes as "a real-life story of leaving corporate life to cash in my life savings to study at the Le Cordon Bleu in Paris." If you feel like you might have heard of her before, could very well be. Want to learn a bit more about Kathleen Flinn and her book? Here's the trailer she made for this book: She's wedged a spot for Phoenix on her book tour that's taking her to New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Paris. We'd barely announced the club's first meeting when the amazing folks at Changing Hands convinced the author of our first Chow Bella Book Club selection Kitchen Counter Cooking School, Kathleen Flinn, to head to Phoenix on her book tour - and she said yes!įlinn will be here Thursday November 3rd at 7 p.m. When we started the Chow Bella Book Club earlier this month with Changing Hands Bookstore, the hope was that eventually CHB would be able to persuade some kick-ass food writers to come to town.
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Was it worth it? Absolutely, I love what I do. Although I've found plenty of success in my career, I did a total reboot to create my current work life which may be daunting or scary for some people. I wish I had this when I was a twenty-something just starting out in my career. Rock Social Aliza Licht is one of those books. Finding a book that changes my thinking and sparks ideas for me is life-changing. Read More: Irish officials aware of mother and baby home mass graves years before politicians and public “My Name is Bridget” finally shares the story of Corrigan’s mother Bridget Dolan, from her pregnancy at age 26 and her time spent shunned by society at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, to her life as a married mother still haunted by the fate of her two boys. I feel very humbled to have written a story that got such a massive reaction,” she stated. “I often think of the children who have died and I hope wherever they are, they are standing on the shoulders of giants because now, thanks to the global attention my 2014 story received they went from being buried in a cesspit for all those decades to being big bright angels in the sky. O’Reilly, who is a birth, adoptive, and foster mother, said the process of writing the book was extremely difficult at times as she pondered the vulnerability of unmarried women and their children who came before her in an unaccepting time. In order to complete the book, Baldwin went to Switzerland and lived a fairly isolated life for three months, writing and revising material that had been taking shape in his mind since his early teens. Like Baldwin, John experiences some homosexual urges, has to deal with family issues and abuse at home, and undergoes a radical transformation where he becomes a Christian. The book deals with 14-year-old John Grimes, whose intellect seems to him the way to escape the strictures of his unloving father (whom we later find out is his stepfather) Gabriel, a Pentecostal preacher. Semi-autobiographical, the book mirrors the troubled relationship Baldwin had with his own stepfather accordingly, troubled relationships, guilt, bitterness, racism, and (perhaps most important) religion are the major themes of the book. Go Tell It on the Mountain is Baldwin's first major work as an author and skyrocketed him into literary stardom upon publication in 1952. |