Just about the last thing I want to do in the summer is fire up the oven, but in cooler weather soup sounds better to me than salad. There’s always my thrifty Surprise Soup – want the recipe? Look in the refrigerator, see what’s left over, add chicken broth and if it’s good, surprise! Occasionally I want to make soup that’s a little more, ah, planned. Looking in our catalog for ideas, I found:
Love Soup: 160 all-new vegetarian recipes from the author of The Vegetarian Epicure
A collection of soup recipes, many vegan, from a renowned vegetarian cook. According to the reviews, it includes a pickle soup recipe. I’m not sure I want to eat that but I do want to read the recipe.
An exaltation of soups: the soul-satisfying story of soup, as told in more than 100 recipes
This book comes from a fascinating blog (formerly a website) called SoupSong. Patricia Solley has been writing about soup online for more than 10 years, mixing soup history and local culture in with the recipes. Want to make a soup that’s a little out of the ordinary? Try Yemen’s saltah or a Turkish balik corbasi.
Closer to home, you could head to Buckhead to eat at Souper Jenny, recently featured in the AJC . The article includes some of Jenny Levison’s recipes and we’ve got her cookbook at the Library.
And while you stir, you can sing:

I have to thank DCPLive’s own Jimmy for blogging about National Novel Writing Month 
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And last but certainly not least,
The shelves are abound with Halloween books that are
Right now many adults are revisiting (and perhaps introducing their kids to) the 1963 classic 





83 years ago today the world was introduced to the whimsical world of author A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh. Milne only created two books centered around the Bear of Very Little Brain,