Monthly Archive: December, 2007

Animalario Universal Del Profesor Revillod

I don’t usually post about books that are not in English but this Spanish language children’s book I came across today is so unusual and a lot of fun even if you do… Read More

The Why We Want To Kill You (for not) Understanding Iraq Meme

I don’t normally post to this blog on the weekends,  and a second off-topic post within less than a week is for me, unprecedented.    But I have these two very interesting and unusual… Read More

A Simple Life

As much as I and some of my readers enjoyed the log mansions and other spectacular eye-candy architectural books I’ve featured,  I was struck by the fact that what seemed to touch most… Read More

Men Who Knit & The Dogs Who Love Them

If you have any stereotypes about men who knit being effeminate milquetoasts who set the nelly-meter spinning off of its scale, Annie Modesitt and Drew Emborsky have written a book to dispel them

Stuff On My Cat

This one is for everyone who laughs at funny cat pictures.  Mario Garza, proprietor of the website stuffonmycat.com has put together a unique collection of pictures of, well, stuff on cats.   Most of… Read More

Twelve Books For Christmas

Merry Christmas!   Today on Christmas Eve I feature the twelfth and final of my Twelve Books For Christmas.   Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is arguably the essential and true Christmas story in English.  … Read More

The Night Before Christmas

In examining the copy right page on this book,  I confirmed that the original poem by Clement C. Moore is in the public domain and so decided to present in it’s entirety Moore’s… Read More

Librarian's Night Before Christmas

Today’s post is for my blog friends who also work in libraries.   Twas’ the night before Christmas and an over-worked, under-budgeted librarian is working late into the night to mend her battered and… Read More

Mental Floss From IX to V

My regular readers who have been with me for awhile already know that I really Hate memes.    Many times, I simply ignore them or give the sender a brief mention and link at… Read More

Christmas In The Trenches

Today’s Christmas book is a bit unusual.  It includes a history lesson. Christmas In The Trenches by John McCutcheon with illustrations by Henri Sorensen (who was also the illustrator for The Old Shepard’s… Read More

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