This is a fantastic canning cookbook! I learned so much from it and am now genuinely excited for the canning season.

Beautiful and evocative photography. Bryan Sansivero’s portraits of deserted homes range from the hauntingly ethereal to the strangely unsettling, with each one telling a silent story.

This is a delightful dive into Christmases past, filled with fascinating historical facts and a treasure trove of traditional recipes from the Gilded Age. It was wonderful to see familiar favorites, like Gingerbread Men, alongside recipes I've only ever heard about, like the elusive Sugar Plum—culturally ubiquitous, but has anyone actually tried one?

I love the aesthetics on this one—everything from the page layout and colors to the font and illustrations. Such a gorgeous treasure.

I appreciated that this book relied heavily on psychology, which gave it an extra level of validity. And there is indeed some good advice in this book. However, the delivery fell short for me. The writing felt very dry—sterile and institutional. As such, I had a really hard time focusing on what I was reading. My mind wandered constantly, and there were a few times I nearly drifted off to sleep. Needless to say, I didn't retain much of what I read.

Complete garbage. This is a blurry, improperly formatted (no matter how you hold your device, the writing is always sideways), photocopy (with writing in the margins) of several pages of a book written in—I'm guessing—a dialect of Chinese.

Clear and concise writing. This book covers a wide array of health ailments that are organized into intuitive categories, such as “Digestive Health,” “Cardiovascular Health,” etc. And in each section there are a large assortment of recipes, allowing for some flexibility if you grow your own herbs.

First, let me say that there is a lot, lot, lot, lot of information in this book. It is more than a refresher on grammar rules. It's more like the Holy Grail of grammar rules—learn them all and you will rule the grammar world!

I love pizza, and I generally make it at home a few times a month, so this book was instantly exciting to me. And holy wowza, I have received a thorough pizza-making education!

Omgz! I'm giddy over how much I love this book.

Very encompassing of Nigerian food culture. This is as much a book about the food of Nigeria as it is about recipes. And I will admit that I was very surprised by how much Nigerian cooking has been influenced by other countries, but you can definitely see those influences in a number of the recipes. For example imoyo eleja (fish escabeche with salsa). Yes please! That's on my list of some of the first recipes I want to try.

Holy awesomeness! This is a book of character creating genius.