Baked by the Book

Book: Violent Ends by Shaun David Hutchinson, Neal Shusterman, Brendan Shusterman, Beth Revis, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Courtney Summers, Kendare Blake, Delilah S. Dawson, Steve Brezenoff, Tom Leveen, Hannah Moskowitz, Blythe Woolston, Trish Doller, Mindi Scott, Margie Gelbwasser, Christine Johnson, E. M. Kokie, and Elisa Nader. Recipe: Cowboy Cookies Goodness. This book. I know, I'm behind on the times but wow. 17 chapters, each a snippet of a life of a high school shooter, ea

Book: Flawed by Cecelia Ahern from the incredible Owl Crate, April Dystopian Box (yes, the same Cecelia Ahern of PS I Love You) Recipe: Chocolate Chunk Pound Cake Flawed is a dystopian book - one of my favorites. I love crazy fictional societies. This one is an Us vs Them/Outcasts (Flawed) where the Flawed are literally branded a la The Scarlet Letter and then there's some Hitler going on with the F armbands. The Guild decides who is Flawed and although they're supposedly go

Book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Recipe: Butterbeer Cupcakes (even a dementor is drawn to a butterbeer cupcake) Throwback Thursday will always be one of my favorite books. Why not start it off with Harry Potter? I could have started off with book one... but book three has butterbeer. Do I really need to describe the book? It's the one with no actual He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Where Harry sneaks off to Hogsmeade for the first time. HONEYDUKES. That

Book: The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner Recipe: Chocolate Pecan Chess Pie I love the South. I was born in Alabama, raised in Florida, my parents both hail from Mississippi, and my stepdad is from Tennessee. Lunch is dinner and dinner is supper. Front porch swings and sweet iced tea. I love the love that is the South. Doing my best to avoid spoilers because you need to read this book. Seriously. It was loaned to me by my book friend Steve that received it as part of his Parnas