‘book review’ Category
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The Fault in Our Stars & Green Juice
26April 3, 2013 by Katie
So today I’ve got a couple fun things for you, but we’ll start off with my very first juicing experience!
My cousin is moving and getting married (so rude… leaving me) but while cleaning out her apartment she gave me her juicer! (as well as a life-time supply of brita filters and Energy Gels – she’s a runner as well). Personally, I’d rather have my cousin, but the juicer is cool too.
The juicer is Breville’s Juice Fountain Compact. It was pretty simple to operate, although I’m pretty sure I’ll have to work on my skills…
My kitchen looked like I’d just mowed the lawn. Things got a little crazy.
My only complaints about the model are 1) things flew up out of the chute before I had a chance to put the food pusher in the top and 2) there were lots of parts to pull apart and clean. Not super when you don’t have a dishwasher, but not horrible. I did enjoy that it sounded like I was flying a space ship or something when I turned it on! Haha it had an intimidating whirring sound…
Category book review, product review | Tags: Breville, green juice, The Fault in Our Stars
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Reading Frenzy!
28March 29, 2013 by Katie
HAPPY FRIDAY! I hope you’re all excited for the weekend, I certainly am because I have NOTHING planned! Don’t you love those weekends? Open to anything, especially relaxing. I may or may be doing to school work… but we’ll just ignore that for now.
While I was on Spring Break I did… NOTHING for school and it was fantastic. I took the week as an opportunity to throw myself into reading for fun and guess how many books I both started and finished by the end of the week?
FIVE.
Yep. I read five books over spring break. Two are for book clubs coming up soon (see bottom of this post if you want to participate in the Chicago book club), and the other three I am reviewing here in this post!
I reviewed Wither, the first book in Lauren DeStefano’s triology, this past summer, but just now got my hands on the second and third book! I had put my name on the waiting list over the summer, but it took 3 months and by the time I got the email saying I could pick up Fever, I was already out of town for…
Category book review | Tags: Fever, Kate Alcott, Lauren DeStefano, Sever, The Dressmaker
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Workouts + The Secret Keeper
27February 3, 2013 by Katie
Halo!
Today’s greeting is in honor of my future… cousin in law? Is that a thing? Anyway, it’s polish. They aren’t getting married until this summer, but I went to a shower for them this weekend!
As I mentioned in yesterday’s goal post, I want to get back into strength training. I’ve found that not having a race training plan to base my workouts around has made things difficult for my type-A personality so I decided to use my own advice and come up with a workout schedule, which I’ll post each week. I’m sure you all missed my picmonkey weekly workout images, right?
Monday – 1.75 mile run plus a Jillian Michaels workout video
Tuesday – Rest day (traveling all day and then going straight to an evening class)
Wednesday – 1.75 mile run + Jillian Michaels Video (or strength at gym)
Thursday – Cycle class if I get up early enough (it’s at 5:30am) or Zumba…
Category book review, workout schedule | Tags: Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper
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Book Club–Heartsick
24January 21, 2013 by Katie
Happy MLK Day! Well, Happy Monday for those who don’t get the day off! I hope all of you had (are having) a good weekend. I mentioned in my post Sunday that I arrived back in Chicago on Saturday, just in time for book club with some other Chicago bloggers! Wouldn’t miss this for the world!
This month our book of choice was Heartsick, by Chelsea Cain. Because the book is about serial killers, we joked about bringing cereal dishes… haha get it? Only a couple girls came through though. I was hoping to make something but I had about 45 minutes, so I just grabbed a bottle of wine…
Book club this month was hosted by the lovely Kelsey:
And we actually had what I think was a record attendance – 15 bloggers! Normally it’s the same group of us every month, but we got a few new faces this time, and we actually discussed the book! A day of firsts.
Category book club, book review | Tags: Chelsea Cain, Heartsick, Unbroken
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Two Heavy Books
20January 20, 2013 by Katie
Hello from CHICAGO! I’m officially back in Chicago, ready to start my LAST semester of law school on Tuesday! I can’t believe 2.5 years ago I showed up scared but so ready to conquer law school. Now I’m about to graduate, but with zero plans for the future. However this time I’m pretty okay with not having a plan, I just need to have faith (and of course do some job searching).
As the title says, today’s post is about two heavy books I’ve read recently. Although by heavy I don’t mean weight, I mean emotionally! Normally I switch back and forth between more intense books and fluffy books. However I happened to grab these two when I was packing for my trip last week, so that’s all I had to read!
In case you missed it, here are the recaps of my whirlwind of a week:
Day 1 in Denver…
Category book review | Tags: The Bell Jar, The Glass Castle
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It Starts With Food Book Review
43January 7, 2013 by Katie
I hope you all had a great weekend! I know I shouldn’t complain since I get 4 weeks off school, but I feel like time is flying by way too quickly! Haha okay, I’ll stop. While at home I’ve been getting in some reading. Mostly I’m working my way through Anna Karenina (only 1/3 the way through…) but I also got a chance to read It Starts With Food, written by Dallas & Melissa Hartwig.
The book outlines their plan to change the way you eat and feel. It’s not a diet, but lifestyle change. I was very interested when I first started reading, since they claim that the diet can significantly help with many symptoms and diseases during the 30 day elimination diet period, such as diabetes, high cholesterol and blood pressure, acne, fatigue, asthma, IBS, celiac disease, depression, Lyme disease, and many many more.
Category book review | Tags: It Starts With Food
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What I’m Loving…
29January 6, 2013 by Katie
Well hello there! I hope you’re all having a great weekend! I’m having a pretty relaxing one here in KC, not too much going on! I thought today I’d take the opportunity to fill you in on things going on in my life, and things that I’m loving right now!
1. PV.Body has a new promotion going on! They are offering everyone who signs up for pv.body during January their 30 Day Challenge to kick start your resolutions! (also available to all current members!).
The pv.body 30 day challenge provides you with your own personal dietitian and trainer to help you meet your fitness and health goals. Everyday, you will be given a new challenge that they can share with friends! Challenges include workouts, recipes, meal plans, group activities and more, and you can document your progress …
Category book review | Tags: Pv.Body
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Books Reviewed in 2012
33December 30, 2012 by Katie
Hey everyone! I can’t believe the year is almost over! Seriously! I’m hoping 2013 will be a great year for all of us, it will definitely be a year of change for me!
Anyway, today’s post is a look back on all the books I read in 2013. Don’t worry, I left all those law school books off this list. Those might bore you to death… I also have two new reviews for you, and two to come since I’m working on reading It Starts With Food, and Anna Karenina.
The first review is Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult.
I. Loved. This. Book. Reason 1: It had a great story and kept me very entertained, I was DYING to know how it ended! Reason 2: I love wolves and there is so much information in this book about how wolf packs function. I just thought it was fascinating.
The story follows a family that was torn apart many years ago. The father studies and lives with wolf packs, spending more time with his wolves than…
Category book review | Tags: book, Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult, reading, Something Blue by Emily Giffin
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The Sweet Life In Paris–Book Review
46December 4, 2012 by Katie
Hey everyone! I hope you all had a good start to your week! I had a fun but rough one with Tina’s tabata workout yesterday morning! WHEW! But in such a good way, I loved it!
I promised a re-cap of my busy and fun Saturday, so here we go!
On Saturday morning I headed out to Oak Park for Core Power Yoga, and afterwards I met up with Chelsey for breakfast at Delia’s Kitchen. The omelette I ordered (Mediterranean with olives, spinach and feta) was AMAZING! It was so light and fluffy, and huge! I also had hash browns and gluten free toast on the side…
Category book club, book review | Tags: book club, David Lebovitz, Sweet Life In Paris, white elephant
