Author: Emily Sara Smucker
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Video: I Made A Japanese “Peach Rare Cheesecake” Recipe I Found On Instagram
Back story: A year and a half ago, my sister Jenny sent me a recipe for clementine cake that she found on Instagram. I was enchanted with the idea of clementine cake after watching the movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. But the directions flashed by so fast they were hard to follow. Also,…
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What I’ve Been Reading: The Lunar Chronicles, by Marissa Meyer
It’s been a long time since I’ve read something that was this fun. In my late teens and early 20s, the big fad in YA books was dystopian fiction. Some of it was done really well and some of it was done poorly, but the main reason I remember that era fondly was the imagination…
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The Miracle House and the Beautiful Sea
It was a gray morning in Coos Bay, and my siblings and I slumped lazily on the couch watching Bride and Prejudice. Finally, knowing that if we were going to go hiking in the afternoon I should make sure my hair was properly washed and dried in time, I left my siblings to enjoy the…
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What I’ve Been Reading Lately
A Tale of Time City, by Diana Wynne Jones Diana Wynne Jones is my favorite author, but this was not my favorite book of hers. It was missing some of the coziness and cleverness I’ve come to expect. Also, it dealt with time travel. There are always plot holes in time travel stories. Always. It…
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YouTube Video: Making a Floor Chair
Hey Readers! Here is my most recent video, where I made a floor chair to conserve space in my tiny room. I actually finished it a while ago, only I never got around to taking a thumbnail photo until today. Hence why I’m suddenly dressed for much warmer weather in my thumbnail than in the…
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I’m Moving!
After my year of travel, people frequently asked me “what’s next?” It’s a valid question. One of my reasons for taking the trip was to potentially find a place to move to in the future. I guess I dreamed that one place would magically be “the one.” I’d step out of my car, it would…
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Thoughts about Books: The Watsons, by Jane Austen and John Coates
Jane Austen is known for her six main novels, but she wrote a few other novellas and fragments that aren’t particularly well-known, except to her die-hard fans. Personally, up until now I’d only read the main six. But a friend lent me a copy of The Watsons, an unfinished novel by Austen that was then…
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Thoughts About Books: Station 11, by Emily St. John Mandel
I would like to start briefly (or not-so-briefly) posting my thoughts about every book I read. This is not quite like a review. Just thoughts. To me, there is no pleasure quite like thinking about books. The most recent book I read was Station 11, by Emily St. John Mandel. I read it because Amy…
The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots 