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What we’re reading during the holiday break

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Candice Lyna

One of the things the Sinclair & Co. team has in common is that we’re avid readers. Here are our picks for what we’ll be reading this holiday season. What’s on your reading list?

Emily Almasy is one of the three of us who has caught the Game of Thrones bug and will continue reading:

• A Clash of Kings (book 2) by George R. R. Martin

She also enjoys reading cookbooks cover-to-cover:

• Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes you can Trust by Ina Garten
• Cooking Light The New Way to Cook Light: Fresh Food & Bold Flavors for Today’s Home Cook from the editors of Cooking Light
• The Mom 100 Cookbook: 100 Recipes Every Mom Needs in Her Back Pocket by Katie Workman

Shelley Bainter is taking two books on her trip to small-town America:

• The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
• The Lifeboat: A Novel by Charlotte Rogan

Candice Hogan continues the A Song of Fire and Ice series with:

• A Dance with Dragons (book 5) by George R. R. Martin

And if Santa sees fit to bring these requested titles:

• The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir (P.S.) by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
• The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook: Heirloom fruits and vegetables, and more than 100 heritage recipes to inspire every generation by Dr. Brent Ridge

Karen Sinclair has been enjoying and will finish:

• Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre

Karen Stinneford has this wonderful variety of books to see her through the end of the year:

• Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon (p.s. this is one of Shelley’s favorites!)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore (also one of Shelley’s favorites)
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf
• South of Broad by Pat Conroy
• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson