As The Page Turns: August Edition

Back again with another round of book reviews 🙂

The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan

This book revolves around 4 women in England during WWII, who all enter a BBC radio contest to become a radio host on a cooking show showing how to utilize what you have in your pantry in view of the fact that there was rationing and sometimes one had to be creative. I liked the premise but I figured out who was going to win the contest early on and (a small thing, I know) everything was neatly tied up with a proverbial bow at the end which kind of bugged me. But it wasn’t a bad book so if WWII fiction is up your alley, then you will probably enjoy this book.

Debt Free Degree by Anthony O’Neal

College is expensive you guys. I graduated from a university over 20 years ago and I thought it was pricey then, whoa let me tell you, tuition prices now are bananas. I have two daughters that may go to college one day (their choice entirely) and I want to be prepared for what is to come. I wrote a separate book review and what I thought about it all here. Great book with lots of tips if this is something that concerns you as well.

Project 333 by Courtney Carver

If you haven’t heard of Project 333, it is basically a three month experiment to only use the same 33 items for getting dressed. These 33 items can include clothing, shoes, accessories, and jewelry that you don’t wear every day like you would a wedding ring or watch. Carver came up with this experiment when she was running late for work one day and was lamenting that she had nothing to wear even though she had a closet stuffed with clothes. Studies have shown that most people wear the same things over and over again which amounts to only about 30% or so of their actual closet. So she made up this project and it helped her not only take a good hard look at what she wasn’t wearing, but helped her discover her style and pare down her closet in the process.

Thousands of people have done their own version of Project 333 since Carver introduced it several years ago. There is even a Project 333 hashtag on Instagram where enthusiasts share the variety of ways that they have implemented this particular type of capsule wardrobe. If overhauling your closet is something you are interested in, then you might want to give this a read.

The Clue in the Diary, Nancy’s Mysterious Letter, Password to Larkspur Lane, and The Clue of the Broken Locket by Carolyn Keene

I have been reading quite a lot of Nancy Drew books lately. I have been dealing with a lot of anxiety lately (please make the news stop, please make the news stop), so I have been reading these books for the nostalgia factor and also for something comforting and familiar.

That’s it from me! What have you been reading lately? 🙂