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I just finished Red Sparrow: A Novel (The Red Sparrow Trilogy) thanks to a recommendation from a friend, and wow was it a great read!!

This book, published in 2013, is currently a movie getting lackluster reviews. My advice would be skip the movie and read this book instead.

Dominika, a young and talented Russian intelligence officer is, against her own wishes, sent to “Sparrow School” to learn “sexpionage” and then assigned to operate against a CIA agent, Nate Nash, to find out the identity of Nash’s mole inside the Russian government. Nate and Dominika being working each other, and eventually one of them betrays their country to work for the other. What follows is truly delightful and terrifying and is apparently realistic because the author, Jason Matthews, is retired from the CIA.

Rarely do I find a useful cookbook that is also fun to read, but this one is both: A Meatloaf in Every Oven: Two Chatty Cooks, One Iconic Dish and Dozens of Recipes – from Mom’s to Mario Batali’s.

A sampling of the passion these authors have for meatloaf:

“Show us a person’s meatloaf and we’ll show you that person’s soul. Meatloaf is a mirror: You are how you loaf.”

and

“Meatloaf is a metaphor: It’s life made loaf. You take what’s precious (in this case, the meat) and stretch it as far as it’ll go.”

This cookbook obviously focuses on meatloaf but it includes recipes from traditional to vegetarian to cultural favorites. The recipes include favorites from several famous chefs to politicians on both sides of the aisle. In total you get about 50 meatloaf recipes grouped into categories with dialogue and commentary included. There is a section at the end that includes yummy sides.

The book also provides helpful basic tips and techniques that span loaves:

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