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Kim’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Kim Fay
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Love & Saffron
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2022
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12 editions
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Kate & Frida
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2025
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5 editions
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The Map of Lost Memories
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2012
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4 editions
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Communion: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam
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2010
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Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey
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2014
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To Asia With Love: A Connoisseurs Guide To Cambodia, Laos, Thailand & Vietnam
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2004
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To Vietnam With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur
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2008
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To Cambodia With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur
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2010
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To Nepal With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur
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2011
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[To Vietnam With Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur (To Asia with Love)] [By: x] [June, 2008]
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The Sounds of Silence
Today I have the honor of guest blogging at Naked Authors, home to a stellar group of mystery writers: Ridley Pearson, Jacqueline Winspear, Paul Levine, James O. Born, Cornelia Read and my fabulous friend, Patricia Smiley, who invited me to share my thoughts on the role of silence in a writer's life:
Recently, I spent two and a half weeks at my parents’ house. They live in Tucson in a development o Read more of this blog post »
Recently, I spent two and a half weeks at my parents’ house. They live in Tucson in a development o Read more of this blog post »
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| I like Anne Tyler’s work but didn’t give her career much thought until I read The Editor, the biography of Judith Jones, who discovered Tyler. I learned that Tyler’s first novel was published when she was 23, and the descriptions of Jones’ work with ...more | |
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| Before reading this biography, like most who are familiar with Judith Jones, I knew her as the brilliant editor behind Julia Child’s The Art of French Cooking. I also had her cookbook, The Pleasures of Cooking for One, which I treat more like a novel ...more | |
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“The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all.”
― The Map of Lost Memories
― The Map of Lost Memories
“Even if you don't find what you think you're looking for, darling, it's the going out and looking for it that counts.”
― The Map of Lost Memories
― The Map of Lost Memories
“Spring is such a hopeful time on the island, and despite the pall that continues to hover over our nation, I find it impossible to resist. The air is still chilly as a well-digger's ear first thing in the morning, but as the hours pass it hints at the warmth to come in later months. As the days become longer, the rains change. They are less punishing and more promising, bringing out the native grasses and glimpses of green on the trees. Then there are the little families of deer, grazing as if the entire island is a spring buffet, and wild rabbits are hopping everywhere.”
― Love & Saffron
― Love & Saffron
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“...when we were walking through Angkor War, I found myself wondering about what is lost when one culture is systematically annihilated so another can thrive in the name of progress. Think about it, what might have happened if Cambodia hadn't eventually been taken over by Siam and then France - what the Cambodians could offer the world if they're given the opportunity to follow through with what they're meant to become.”
― The Map of Lost Memories
― The Map of Lost Memories
“When Angkorian society began, Paris and London were not much more than elaborate villages. Europe was crawling with barbarians, and here were the Khmer engineering sophisticated irrigation systems and constructing the biggest temple in the world.”
― The Map of Lost Memories
― The Map of Lost Memories
“More than any expert Irene had met, Mr. Simms mastered the intricacies of dealing in art. He understood an object's worth, not solely its dollar value but how that value could be manipulated into emotional currency.”
― The Map of Lost Memories
― The Map of Lost Memories
“Even if you don't find what you think you're looking for, darling, it's the going out and looking for it that counts.”
― The Map of Lost Memories
― The Map of Lost Memories
“Too many people surrender to a place of safety. That place where all they do is long to sleep so they can dream about living.”
― The Map of Lost Memories
― The Map of Lost Memories
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