Wild foxglove in a canyon in Big Sur / photo by Jake Mann This post is doing double-duty! I love being able to kill two birds (that is two assignments) with one stone. Debra of Eliot's Eats is hosting our bi-monthly reading group Cook the Books . You can read her invitation here . And, if you'd like to join the fun, the posts aren't due till the end of September, so you still have time. Then, for our Lit Happens book group, Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm picked the same book: Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown.* That is not a cook-from-the-book kind of group, but I usually am inspired into the kitchen by anything that I read or watch. And I love being able to consolidate posts, especially since I wasn't loving the book anyway. When you have a novel that includes physical abuse, deliberate lies and omissions between spouses, and spousal rape (sorry for that spoiler!), I am frankly surprised that I finished the book at all. But I did. ...