A Well-Read Tart

A Food and Book Lover’s Blog

SMALL WONDERS: A FIELD GUIDE TO LIFE’S QUIET JOYS Book Review

Small Wonders: A Field Guide to Life’s Quiet Joys is a delightful little book of musings, observations, reminders, and other happy nonsense. This nonfiction book is by Jennifer Shoop, who I’d never heard of but maybe you have. She’s the founder and author of the daily lifestyle blog, Magpie. Despite being a blogger myself, I don’t follow too many other blogs. But I saw Small Wonders’ beautiful book cover on Instagram, then saw it was...

KEEP ON GLOWING Book Review

You know I’m all about the self-help, self-care, and woo-woo stuff these days, Tartlets. So, I was excited when author Robin Emtage offered me an ARC of her new book Keep On Glowing: Your Guide to Graceful Empowerment and Unstoppable Glow. It sounded right up my alley.   What’s Keep On Glowing about? Keep On Glowing is a guide to helping women rediscover and maintain a sense of self-confidence so that they can “glow” from within. Your...

FINDING THE GIFT Book Review

Happy 2020, Tartlets! Yes, yes, I know that we’ve all been living in the new year for over a month now. Aaaaand that I did an impromptu post in January about my NYC food tour. BUT! This is my first scheduled post of 2020, which means a new year of book and food blogging has officially begun! I can think of no better way to kick off  than with my book review of Finding the Gift: Daily Meditations for Mindfulness. It’s no secret that 2019 was...