Quiet, Please Dispatches from a Public Librarian
Part of me feels guilty for posting about a second memoir by a second Los Angeles area librarian within less than three months, but Quiet Please Dispatches from a Public Librarian was just… Read More
Part of me feels guilty for posting about a second memoir by a second Los Angeles area librarian within less than three months, but Quiet Please Dispatches from a Public Librarian was just… Read More
Sometimes, it seems to me, Rita Mae Brown is simply out to taunt me. It was if she had somehow heard (or perhaps read) my wish that she write again about the old… Read More
Chas Newkey-Burden’s Great Email Disasters is a UK trade paperback book about e-mails that have come embarrassingly to light, leaving their senders to look like real schmucks. While reading titillating e-mails is fun… Read More
I have to say right off, going in, that I really wanted to like Clifford A Wright’s Bake Until Bubbly– The Ultimate Casserole Cookbook. But Wright in several ways made that very hard… Read More
If you’ve ever hesitated to eat seafood due to concerns about mercury or other pollutants or concerns about sustainability OR if you’ve ever hesitated to try cooking some exotic variety of seafood or… Read More
Pack your bags and get ready for the ride of your life. The Space Tourist’s Handbook tells you all you need to know about vacationing in space. Written by Eric Anderson, CEO of… Read More
$3,000,000,000,000.00. Or, if you prefer, three trillion dollars. Any way you cut it, that’s A LOT of money. And according to Joseph E Stiglitz and Linda J Blimes, that’s how much the United… Read More
I had thought that I was burned out on reading about hurricane Katrina but when I happened upon Michael Tisserand’s Sugarcane Academy the other day I stayed up until after 2 a.m. reading… Read More
Having considered and rejected five other cookbooks for today’s post, I can say without hesitation that Andreas Viestad’s Kitchen Of Light is no ordinary cookbook. There is first the photography, which is highly… Read More
