Out to lunch, be back soon.

Just wanted to let all bookworms and moths know that although the posts for the first half of April have been a bit sparse, I'm hoping to get some going soon! My ol' MacBook Pro of 7 years finally went to visit the big circuit board in the sky after taking an ill-fated and inadvertent sip of water, and I've been computerless since. Typing on a smartphone gets frustrating quickly, so as soon as I get the computer situation figured out I hope to get some reviews and other fun stuff posted. If in the meantime you find you need a RTET fix, check out our Twitter and Pinterest accounts, which you can access by clicking the icons below our header. (Thankfully those are things I can easily update from my phone!) Until then, go out and enjoy the sunshine! Have a picnic, read a book en plein air (or would that be al fresco?), and then let us know what you've eaten/read! Until then...

Housekeeping!

Hello, bookworms and moths! We’ve gotten some feedback (yay!), and are working hard to keep making the blog better. Items of business:

• We have heard that there’s a problem when trying to comment on a post via your mobile device--your comment magically disappears and doesn’t post. We are exploring and hopefully implementing a new comment platform soon that should get rid of that problem (fingers crossed!). We love comments, and don’t want anyone to feel dissuaded from commenting because of this issue!

• On the right side of the webpage, there is a box where you can type in your email address to subscribe to the blog (meaning that you’ll get an email alerting you whenever a new post goes up, so you don’t have to remember to keep checking the blog page). If you would like to subscribe, you will need to input your email address, hit the submit button, and then you should get an email confirming that you do indeed want to be on our subscription list. You must click the link in that email before you will be able to get our posts emailed to you! Apparently this email with the link has been appearing in people’s spam boxes, so make sure to check there if you’re running into problems with your subscription.

• And last but definitely not least, we’ve heard that while it’s fun to read reviews, it’s even MORE fun when you’ve read the book in question and can join in the discussion. So, to that end, we will make sporadic posts with our more-or-less-immediate TBR (to be read!) lists, so you will know what we’re planning on reading and talking about in the near future, just in case you’d like to pick up one the books and discuss it in the comments with us when we make a post about it.

Upcoming Reviews:

Alyssa’s Docket for the Near Future:

These are just my plans and the general order I think I might read them in. I reserve the right to add, subtract, and rearrange books according to my whims! But if you don’t know what book to read next, maybe you can pick up one of these and then join us in the discussion whenever it appears on the blog. :D

Hello, world!

Hello friends and internet wanderers, bookworms and moths, and welcome to Read This / Eat That! Our blog is just a wee hatchling right now, but we felt that some sort of introductory post was needed before we dive into the sorts of posts one would expect from a blog with reading and eating in its title. Susan and I (“I” being Alyssa, the second of your fearless admins/writers/posters) decided to embark upon this little blog adventure following a recent multiple-hour discussion of books. Or a book, I think it was. At any rate, we realized that we enjoy reading books and talking about them. At length. And usually with some strong opinions involved. We also fondly reminisced about ours days in college performing culinary experiments (often beyond the scope of the average college student’s cooking repertory) and co-writing a column about them. Books, food, words, hmmm…

We enjoy books, we said to ourselves. We also enjoy cooking food, we thought. We also ALSO enjoy writing about these things!, we added. So why not make a blog combining these loves into one fun, internetty, bi-coastal project? The fruits of which train of thought you see here before you!

We know she’s not a beaut yet. We are pretty good at using the internet, but not quite as good at making it, so hopefully we’ll be prettifying as we go. And we’ve got lots of ideas! Book reviews, of course, (we read a lot of YA, but see no reason to limit ourselves to that), along with our occasional Double Take reviews, where we will read the same book and then duke it out (or spend the whole review agreeing with each other. I guess it will depend on the book. Stick around and see!), and maybe a read-along here and there. On the cooking side, we hope to do some ingredient challenges (where we choose an ingredient and challenge each other to invent a recipe using it), and then maybe even get crazy and combine the worlds of literature and food by reviewing some COOKBOOKS. Lots of ideas for fun theme posts, too, so hopefully, dear reader, you will stick around and see what’s in store! I mean, really…books and food. What could be better? :)