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[shetellsastory]

📦📮B O O K M A I L. Awesome start for the weekend, I gotta say. Thank you @penguinukbooks for send me these copies; I'm so pumped to read them. . I've been seeing 'Into the Water' by Paula Hawkins literally everywhere; tho the reviews are mixed but I'm giving this a try myself. . As for 'All the Good Things' by Clare Fisher; I couldn't pass it up the synopsis had me. And that - What if you did a bad thing but that wasn't the end of the story - blurb on the cover made me all the more excited to pick it. . VERY EXCITED ABOUT MY NEW BOOKS. What's your latest purchase ? 📖 ___ ❗️Note : check my insta-story for both books' synopsis. __ #allthegoodthings #intothewater #paulahawkins #clarefisher #bookmail #penguinukbooks

[claredalton]

Madeira-sauteéd lobster over angel-hair pasta

This recipe by Linda Greenlaw goes back to 2005, as reported on the Today show website. But Sam Reece generously shared it with us after she served it to Miklos on the island, and he raved about it. I don’t know where I was that day, but I missed it! This was in pre-pandemic times, but we hunted it down again today after Steve Palmer came down to the house and gifted us four shedders, already cooked.

This season Steve has been fishing lobster, as crew for Bruce Fernald. The season is coming to an end. November is when most of the older fishermen bring in their traps, haul their boats out, and spend the next three months off the water. There’s still work to be done painting buoys, mending traps, maintaining equipment, coiling rope. But there’s also time for other projects, and even, for some, travel to a warmer part of the country for the worst of winter.

There are many who will be grateful when Steve is done fishing, since he’s also the island’s only mechanic, and a magician with the island’s rather idiosyncratic collection of older cars, boats, golf carts and garden machinery. I imagine there’ll be quite a queue of eager customers when he’s ready to take them on.

We prevailed on Steve to replace the starter in our 1994 Geo Tracker in September, after Miklos hurt his back, and we could no longer just abandon it whenever and wherever it refused to cooperate, and walk home, hoping it would be in better humor the next day. Which it often was, especially when encouraged with a little tap from an iron rod we kept the back. The starter had been temperamental since the spring, and we’d been on Steve’s list, but he was fishing. I suspect we jumped the queue ….

The recipe is rather decadent, but incredibly tasty.

Ingredients:

4 ounces butter

4 tablespoons olive oil

1 tablespoon yellow onion

4 large garlic cloves

4 cups lobster meat

1/2 cup madeira or medium-dry sherry

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

1 pound angel hair or other thin-strand pasta

Directions:

Heat the butter and oil in a large, wide skillet

Add the onion and cook over medium heat until softened, about 5 minutes.

Add the garlic and lobster meat, and cook, stirring, for 3 to 4 minutes.

Add 1/4 cup of the madeira and cook for 1 minute to burn off the alcohol.

Add the remaining 1/4 cup of madeira, and season the sauce to taste with salt and pepper.

Meanwhile, cook the pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water until al dente, about 8 minutes.

Drain.

Reheat the sauce if necessary, spoon over the pasta, toss if desired, and serve. If you are feeling a little guilty about all the butter, make sure to make a big green salad as well.

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[shetellsastory]

Thank you @penguinukbooks for sending me a finished copy of 'All the Good Things' by Clare Fisher to review ✏️. . #thebookishreview 📚 Rating: 3/5 ⭐️ . This book has me all confused because to this moment I can't decide if I actually enjoyed it or was it simply my curiosity that kept going; but that's the thing, i couldn't leave the book until i finished it. . Beth, our main character, is 21 years old and already in prison. She did something terrible that she knows deep down, she doesn't deserve to ever feel good again. Her counselor on the other hand, Erika, won't take no for an answer and won't give up on her because she believes there's still forgiveness for Beth. She asks Beth to start writing a list with all the good things in her life. We begin our story with that list, one that takes us through Beth's life story. From the very first foster dad to the day she sniffed her baby's head and up until we faced the bad thing she did. . I believe that this book had an amazing premise, the story is very realistic and could've possibly happened already out there in the world. For the first half of the book, the tone of the story was told in this monotone manner, I got bored easily and the word bad thing was repeated way too many times that I expected it to be something not bad at the end; which I was wrong about of course and that was what lifted up that book in my opinion. . The second half, things started to pick up and we got closer to figure out the climax of Beth's story and well, i didn't see it coming which was a Hurray moment for me. It was moving and sad and it left me a bit shocked at what she actually did but I honestly felt sorry for her. . I highly recommend this book if you're a mental health books fan and if you're a very very patient reader. __ #allthegoodthings #clarefisher #penguinukbooks