Monthly Archives: June 2008
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 barely too good to pass up. Scott … Continue reading
Filed under Book Reviews, Books, Memoir, Non-Fiction
The Sand Castle
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 Runnymeade gang, and give us a break … Continue reading
Filed under Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Mystery
Great E-mail Disasters
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 I suppose, the fact that I really … Continue reading
Filed under Book Reviews, Books, Non-Fiction, Short Takes
Bubbly Baked Road Trip Dream
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 for me to do. The first time … Continue reading
Filed under Armchair Travel, Book Reviews, Books, Geography, Non-Fiction, Reject Pile
Fish Forever
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 other out of ignorance, Paul Johnson has … Continue reading
Filed under Book Reviews, Books, Non-Fiction
The Space Tourist's Handbook
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 Space Adventures, this $16 book is part … Continue reading
Filed under Armchair Travel, Book Reviews, Books, Non-Fiction
The $3,000,000,000,000.00 War
$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 States’ war in Iraq has cost, estimating … Continue reading
Filed under Book Reviews, Books, Non-Fiction
Sugarcane Academy
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 it. I found myself fascinated by the … Continue reading
Filed under Book Reviews, Books, Katrina, New Orleans, Non-Fiction
Kitchen Of Light
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 evocative of Thomas Laupstad’s blog, depicting ethereal … Continue reading
Filed under Book Reviews, Books, Non-Fiction
