Watermark Books and Cafe

Ellen has been part of both Watermark Books *and* Watermark Cafe since January 2012. In 2011, Ellen moved to Wichita from Portland, OR. She's a lifelong bibliophile and studies English at Wichita State; she always up for discussing the Pacific Northwest, literary heroines, and the history of agriculture. She leads the Spilled Inklings book club. 

Here's an incomplete list of what she's read lately:

September 2012:

The End of Men: and the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin

The Vanishing Act by Mette Jakobsen

The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann

The People of Forever are Not Afraid by Shanji Boianjiu

The Truck Food Cookbook by John T. Edge 

August 2012:

The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Battleborn: Stories by Clare Vaye Watkins 

Little Brother by Cody Doctrow  -- Spilled Inklings

The Magicians by Lev Grossman 

Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama

The Pigeon Pie Mystery by Julia Stuart 

In My Kitchen by Ted Allen 

July 2012:

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons  --Spilled Inklings

How to Cook Everything: The Basics by Mark Bittman 

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King 

June 2012:

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

The Innocents by Francesca Segal

The Cookie Dough Lover's Cookbook by Lindsay Landis 

Green Shore by Natalie Bakopoulos

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook by Cheryl Day & Griffith Day

The Vanishing Act (Hardcover)

By Mette Jakobsen

$23.95

ISBN-13: 9780393062922
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 9/2012

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Seraphina (Hardcover)

By Rachel Hartman

$17.99

ISBN-13: 9780375866562
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Published: Random House Books for Young Readers, 5/2012

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Rachel Hartman outpaces the majority of teen fantasy with this lovely debut. "Seraphina" was one of the most enjoyable reads of the summer for me and I'm looking forward to Hartman's likely excellent follow-up.

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Anna Karenina (Hardcover)

By Leo Tolstoy

$25.00

ISBN-13: 9780679410003
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Published: Everyman's Library, 4/1992

An excellent English teacher once told me that classics are meant to be re-read every decade. Tolstoy's vivid and unforgiving masterpiece is no exception. A decade after my first visit with Anna and Russian society, this book resonates on a completely new level.

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On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft (Paperback)

By Stephen King

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9781439156810
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Published: Scribner, 7/2010

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Stephen King is many things. Some love him, some hate him. I've never been an adoring fan of his but I've always respected him as a writer. His work ethic is legendary and a writer of any genre might find something useful in this enduring memoir of craft.

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