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
Monthly Archive: December, 2007
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
