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This was OK but it didn‘t really capture me. A woman with love of cooking, a wonderful relationship, and a hope to be a parent suddenly learns that she has a brain aneurysm that needs serious surgery and ongoing treatment. She shifts among her relationships, what‘s happening in her own body and the sometimes frightening treatments, and the foods that sustain her through it.
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What comes of our own actions becomes the reason. We may arrive where we are by way of a specific path—we can take just one at a time—but it‘s never the only one that could have led to our destination. Nor does a single event, or even a string of events, point decisively to a single landing spot. There are infinite possible versions of our lives. Meaning is not what happens, but what we do with what happens.

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Great little book, I enjoyed it. So happy to see that the author is doing well these days after such an unexpected and traumatic health scare ♥️ Only side effect: made me wish I enjoyed cooking more at this point in my life 😂
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Today‘s #illness prompt made me think about Stir. The author had an aneurysm burst in her brain while running a treadmill at a hotel gym. It burst apart the life she was planning & had her enduring numerous surgeries, losing her sense of smell & the eyesight in her left eye. Food, cooking & her friends/family got her through the dark times. I checked her Instagram recently & was happy to find her happy, healthy & with 3 kids.❤️

Here‘s a closer look at the books from @throwmeabook ! They both look fascinating! I love the idea of a baker‘s narrative, because I love to bake 😍 and I‘ve been eyeing “The Thirteenth Tale” for a little while. Thanks again! Also, thanks @TheReadingMermaid for arranging this #blinddatebookswap! It was so much fun!

My latest #bookoutlet #bookhaul 📚💕 Stir and The Thirteenth Tale are old favourites but the rest are all new to me. Pretty excited to read these in 2019! 🎉

About to begin this adventure....

I haven‘t read this yet, but it‘s on my TBR. After a woman has a brain aneurysm burst, she comes home and begins her recovery by cooking. #HeyJune #getback

#HeyJune #Help I thought we were going to have a simple Friday night dinner,just family and my son informed me he invited 5 friends!!! So now I‘m busy cooking and preparing 🤪 The tagged book is about a young newlywed who survived a brain aneurism and turned to baking & cooking to #help her regain self, purpose, creativity, comfort and pleasure. This book was so moving & the recipes are amazing!!! Plus, Jessica is ADORABLE

Tonight's book club read features several recipes that got the author through a tough time in her life after suffering an aneurism. Everyone made a difference recipe from the book which made tonight's gathering extra delicious! I made the almond cake which was delicious if I do say so myself 🤤

Our book club meeting tonight was a discussion on Stir. Everyone brought a dish from the book. Pictured is asparagus soup, salad, sesame noodles, and potato latkes. Dessert includes chocolate chip wheat cookies, almond cake, and lemon bars.

I know food memoirs are a thing. They‘re not my thing though, at least I didn‘t think so. I like to eat (a lot) and I‘m a pretty good cook (I think), but I feel like a novice when I read books like this. Fechtor‘s illness and how good brought her back to life was very engaging, and the food aspect wasn‘t polarizing in the way I feared it would be. That said though, I did feel out of my league at times. But she did inspired me to make lemon bars.

Two pages in and I'm already scared of my treadmill. #itscalledfinediningeverheardofit?

My MIL is obsessed with this book and the recipes included. She made this butter almond cake from the book for a dinner tonight and luckily, made an extra for my husband and me 🤤 This story seems to include both #pleasureandpain - as the author recovers from an aneurysm by immersing herself in recipes. Chosen for our March bookclub, I can‘t wait to read it... and eat!!
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Stir is a beautifully written memoir about a woman and her recovery from a brain aneurysm and the food that went along with her journey. There are recipes for almost every chapter. Our bookclub chose this book for our next discussion and we will be cooking our potluck food from Fechtor‘s recipes. Yum! #pleasureandpain #marchintooz

I loved listening to Jessica Fechtor narrate her memoir, the story of her journey to recovery after an aneurysm and the role of food in that journey. Moving and beautiful.

"Once-upon-a-times" have a way of sneaking up on you. Stories never begin where they begin."

"Food has powers. It picks us up from our lonely corners and sits us back down, together. It pulls us out of ourselves, to the kitchen, to the table, to the diner down the block. At the same time, it draws us inward. Food is the keeper of our memories, connecting us with our pasts and with our people."

Just started listening to this today while working, and it's so good!
"Food has powers."

I decided to get #bold with this graphic about being defiantly alive, which is the epitome of boldness. Everything I've read about this book makes me think it will be exactly in my wheelhouse. #quotsynov17

#AugustGrrrl #LiveToTell My time management got away from me today & I almost forgot this one.😬A favorite foodie memoir. AfterJessica Fechtor suffered a brain aneurism on a hotel treadmill, things were touch & go, but she lived to tell her story of how food, cooking & the support & connection to friends & family helped her find her way back. I loved both the audio & print books & her simplest tomato soup-one of the many recipes included. 🍴📚❤️

I'm getting married today! But first, coffee and book.

This book was chosen because of the subject of brain injury which fascinates me. I never expected to appreciate the writing. Jessica Fechtor, however, is a very talented writer who kept me more than a little interested in her story. She writes beautifully! There is no pity party just straightforward telling of her life before, during, and after a brain aneurism. Food & cooking does not take a back burner in Stir. Recipes are included.

Today's Simplest Tomato Soup is from this foodie memoir about a young woman who has a brain aneurysm & fights her way back w/the support of family & friends & the power of food & cooking. I listened to the audio book in 2016, recommended by @BethFishReads & liked it so much I picked it for the virtual bookclub I co-host & read it again. Review+recipe (Served w/the Fromage Fort I made earlier this week) are on my blog today. Link👇🏼#soup🍲📚

The fifth year in a row that graphic novels have trounced every other category, which is funny because I never feel like I'm reading a lot of them. I should also mention that not even one of these is a title that I actually own, something I aim to change in 2017. While the overall total is okay, I'm not really happy with the numbers in the individual categories which may be why I've decided to do so many reading challenges (more on those later).

I'm comfortable calling these 9 my favorite reads of 2016. Of these, my top 3 are "Stir" (I loved it so much I also listened to the audio, which was wonderfully narrated by the author), "Under the Egg" (Theodora Tenpenny is a character I want to hang out with), and "Adulthood is a Myth" (I can't verbally express how much I love Sarah Andersen). Here's hoping I find some more great titles in 2017! #bestof2016

"Creating things matters. It's not that we live, but how, that makes us who we are."

I read this as a food memoir for the 2016 Read Harder challenge. I haven't read anything like this before... I really enjoyed the candid stories about the author's life interspersed with recipes and anecdotes for some of the foods of her life. Good writing, and a positive, healthy message. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I started this book late last night and had a hard time putting it down to go to sleep. The author's story of her medical issue is woven together with stories of her life before, and some very appealing recipes in between. 👍

someone donated a bunch of new or new looking books to the library and i saw this book which is on my to-read list so I grabbed it to read first :D.

What things do you come from?
I come from edible pod peas, Vienna Sausages, and penny candy. My parents ran a general store until I was 10.

Enjoying while working my mother's open house. Happy holidays!

Feels like a good week to start this one.

Day19 #photoadaynov #onewordtitles Here's a stack of books with one word titles from my shelves. I am sure there are more but I'm feeling lazy today! 😀📚❤️

I have fallen in love with the author and her family and friends. They seem like such smart and GOOD people, like, I wish the whole world was made up of people like them. Also, there's a recipe for a press-in-the-pan pie crust that I want to try (that's not what it's called but that's what you do, as opposed to rolling it out)

This book is filled with amazing recipes, hope and promise!

Listened to the audio, which is a favorite way of mine for memoirs. This book was awesome, just a story about her life coming out of an unexpected huge health problem. It's also about how cooking and food shaped her life and her recovery. I did feel like the ending was rushed - the final surgery and the hope for a child was just glazed over. But overall, I loved it!

#somethingforsept #septphotochallenge #BooksThatMakeMeHungry All these books offer tantalizing food descriptions and some include the recipes but Stir contains the necessary ingredients for a perfect story; strength, family and love💗

Loved this book. Not at all a typical food memoir; instead the story of how a 28-year-old woman recovered from a brain bleed with the help of family and her love of cooking/baking for her loved ones. Keep a box of tissues nearby! Also one of few books that handles Judaism as normally & casually as every other book in the world handles Christianity. Don't miss this! Thanks to @bermudaonion for bringing it my attention.

Thanks to @bermudaonion I've added this to my stack. Am hoping to start it later today. Memoir? Food? I'm in.

This lovely memoir is about the author finding her way back from trauma through food and cooking. I was moved by the thoughtful story and terrific writing.

The best part about being in a new city is figuring out what's there to eat.

Food is the keeper of our memories, connecting us with our pasts and with our people.

I loved this so much. Great story telling, delicious recipes. Wonderful book. One of my favorites this year.

Got some awesome book mail today. Getting ready to get immersed in the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge! I already own roughly a million food memoirs, but one more can't hurt, right? And this collection of essays looks legit. I'm thinking I might be able to use it if I teach composition again.