Monthly Archives: December 2007
Arts & Crafts Treehouses
Having featured books of fabulous log cabins and log mansions and books of very modern and high-tech cabins and vacation retreats, I decided today to feature a couple more very eye candy books of unique vacations homes. Treehouses View From … Continue reading
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Christmas USA
Just in case you are counting, today is my seventh of twelve Christmas book posts. I have already picked out the remaining five books and am set to post one per day, concluding on Christmas Eve with Charles Dickens’ A … Continue reading
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Managing Employees From Hell
We’ve all dealt with them. The co-worker who flies into a tirade at everybody else when she screws up big time. Or worse the one who’s constant whining and complaining can drag an entire office into depression. Or worse still, … Continue reading
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A Peanuts Christmas
Sometimes the holiday season makes me feel old. Recently my friend techfun pointed out how the advent of hundreds of channels and Tivo have retired what used to be annual cultural touchstones we all shared. Once school was back in … Continue reading
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Milk Eggs Vodka
Today I am featuring Bill Keaggy’s Milk Eggs Vodka not because it’s an interesting and amusing book, though it is, but as an example of someone who has turned a popular web site into a commercially successful book.
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The Christmas Cookie Book
Certain cookies just mean Christmas. For me, buttery little balls of pecan studded dough rolled in powdered sugar (and known by all sorts of different names) are the Christmas cookie, though I realize for others it may be gingerbread men, … Continue reading
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Having Men for Dinner
This one caught my eye while shelving in the 200′s. Subtitled "Biblical Women’s Deadly Banquets", Nicole Wilkinson Duran’s Having Men for Dinner looks at the symbolism of food and drink in the Bible and relates them to issues of seduction … Continue reading
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Spectacular Hotels
If you are in the habit of clicking on my eye candy selections and getting them from the library to gawk at, be assured that Trisha Wilson’s Spectacular Hotels will not disappoint in that regard. I have some reservations … Continue reading
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Williams-Sonoma Christmas Entertaining
Just in case you are keeping count, this is the fourth of my Twelve Books For Christmas. While Christmas dinner is not quite the classic high-stakes, high-stress meal Thanksgiving so often is, the Christmas season is often a time for … Continue reading
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The Old Shepard's Tale
Last week I got called in to work a shift at Sumner Library. I had worked at that branch once before and they had been very nice to me so when they said they were really desperate for someone … Continue reading
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