October 17, 2017

Top Ten Tuesday: Yummy Foods Mentioned in Books

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. It was created due to their love of lists.

So I don't have a long list this week. I only have 2 books for this list. But I really wanted to spotlight them because they are really awesome!

1. Bittersweet by Sarah Ockler - This book talks a lot about cupcakes. Flavors upon flavors of cupcakes! It made me incredibly hungry for cupcakes when I read it. (Review)

2. The Espressologist by Kristina Springer - So I had just picked this book up on a whim at the library one day. The title was catchy. After reading it, I thought it was such a cute and creative book. While not food, it talks about lots and lots of coffee! And matching people up based on their coffee drinks. It was cute and so many of the coffee drinks sounded delicious! (Review)

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October 15, 2012

Cover Reveal: The Paparazzi Project by Kristina Springer

Sorry for this going up a bit late! My laptop crashed last night along with my not being able to connect to the internet this until this morning. But hey, better late than never right??

The Paparazzi Project by Kristina Springer

Expected pub: December 15, 2012

Livvie Peterson thought taking Interpersonal Communications her junior year would be an easy A. But when the first assignment is given, her world flips upside down. Here’s the deal: the class is assigned a six-week project and is split into three groups— Paparazzi, Tabloid, and Celebrities. The Paparazzi follow around the Celebrities taking pictures and grabbing any kind of quotes they can. The Celebrities try to navigate being tailed on a daily basis. And the Tabloid receives all the information collected by the Paparazzi and decides what makes the weekly summary report. Sounds harmless…and it’s all just pretend anyway, right? 

Livvie is assigned as Paparazzi and when she is matched up with the über -cute Chas Montgomery as her Tabloid boss she’s pretty sure things couldn’t get much better. Livvie’s uncanny ability to capture the Celebrities in compromising photos matched with Chas’s skill of exaggerating captions and editing the photos make them an unstoppable team. And the long hours working side by side with Chas aren’t a bad bonus. 

Livvie simultaneously launches an anonymous blog, leaking the class’ photos and stories on the Internet. Her rising follower number quickly becomes addicting and she possibly spills too much information online. Once she finds her own celebrity will she be able to give it back? And will Chas be gone before she ever has the chance to find out?

Author Bio:
Kristina Springer is the author of THE ESPRESSOLOGIST, MY FAKE BOYFRIEND IS BETTER THAN YOURS, JUST YOUR AVERAGE PRINCESS, and the forthcoming THE PAPARAZZI PROJECT (12/15/12). She has a Masters in Writing from DePaul University and she resides in a suburb of Chicago with her husband and children.

Author Links:
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tinaspringer
FB: http://www.facebook.com/KristinaSpringer
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2469379.Kristina_Springer
Website:  http://www.KristinaSpringer.com

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August 27, 2012

Review: The Espressologist by Kristina Springer

The Espressologist

Author: Kristina Springer
Publisher: Square Fish
Publication Date: January 4, 2011 (Paperback)
Pages: 208
Source: Paperback/Library

What’s your drink of choice? Is it a small pumpkin spice latte? Then you’re lots of fun and a bit sassy. Or a medium americano? You prefer simplicity in life. Or perhaps it’s a small decaf soy sugar-free hazelnut caffe latte? Some might call you a yuppie. Seventeen-year-old barista Jane Turner has this theory that you can tell a lot about a person by their regular coffee drink. She scribbles it all down in a notebook and calls it Espressology. So it’s not a totally crazy idea when Jane starts hooking up some of her friends based on their coffee orders. Like her best friend, Em, a medium hot chocolate, and Cam, a toffee nut latte. But when her boss, Derek, gets wind of Jane’s Espressology, he makes it an in-store holiday promotion, promising customers their perfect matches for the price of their favorite coffee. Things are going better than Derek could ever have hoped, so why is Jane so freaked out? Does it have anything to do with Em dating Cam? She’s the one who set them up! She should be happy for them, right? With overtones of Jane Austen’s Emma and brimming with humor and heart, this sweet, frothy debut will be savored by readers.

Review: This was such a cute little contemporary! It was such a short, fast and fun read! I never would have come up with an idea like matching people based on their coffee drinks. It was so creative and just really fun to read about. The first thing I liked was how each type of drink had their own little blurb in Jane's book about what the people who like to order it are like. It was so interesting, especially since there was so many different drinks and just as many different blurbs about those types of people. It was so cool. I personally would never be able to think of blurbs like those. And this whole Espressologist promotion they did at her coffee shop. While it might have been really stressful, it also sounded pretty fun, and a awesome fun way to boost sales during the holidays. What surprised me though was that most of these Espressology matches worked out. Though you could see right from the beginning that Cam and Em's wasn't gonna work. It was totally obvious how Cam was really into Jane and that he only took Em out to make Jane happy. I was really happy that Cam and Jane got together in the end since it was painfully obvious how much they liked each other. What was really cool though, was at the end of the book there was recipes for some of the coffee drinks mentioned! 

I do feel like there could have been more to the story, like outside the coffee shop. And I do feel like the characters could have been developed more. But overall, for the short length of this book, it was a great fun and fast read! Definitely worth the small amount of time it takes to to read it!

Fair warning! This book will really have you craving coffee by the end of it!

4 Stars!

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