Monthly Archive: July, 2008

A Bear And His Boy

Happy Wednesday!    Time for another Easy Picture Books roundup and I have three really cute ones for you today.      A Bear And His Boy caught my attention last week and proved to be… Read More

North of the DMZ

Just in case $4.xx/gallon gas and the seemingly interminable and insurmountable problems in Junior’s Iraq weren’t causing you enough headaches,  Andrei Lankov– a professor of Korean history and politics at the Australian National… Read More

Welcome To Your Brain, a Ron Review

Starting off the new week with a Ron Review, one of my partner Ron’s occasional takes on a book I probably would not have selected. Welcome to Your Brain by Sandra Aamodt and… Read More

Oh my, where did the week get away from me?

Yikes.   How did I manage to let a whole week pass without doing a single blog post?   It’s certainly not that I didn’t read any noteworthy books this past week.   But somehow or… Read More

cool coal fark muqtada nuclear nebraska terrorist

I had thought about doing another top ten droppers link love post this weekend, but given that I only have one book I consider at all suitable–  cool colors for modern living is… Read More

Eight Million Ways To Die

It seems as though I have always been a fan of Lawrence Block’s mysteries,  discovering in high school his series of "Burglar Who"  books (such as The Burglar Who Liked To Quote Kipling)… Read More

I'd Really Like To Eat A Child

And a Happy Wednesday to you!   It’s time for another Easy Picture Book roundup and I have some great ones for you today.    First off,  is Betsy Everitt’s Mean Soup.   A child is… Read More

Snakes, Earrings and Death By Supermarket

Happy Tuesday!   The first  book up today, I’m sorry to say is definitely Not a winner.   I only managed to read the introduction and part of the first chapter of Nancy DeVille’s Death… Read More

I'm Fine With God…It's Christians I Can't Stand

Happy Weekend!  For those of you who are off from work,  I thought I would pop in and post about the most interesting book that I came across at work yesterday.   Bruce Bickel… Read More

Rammed Earth and Concrete Houses

Today’s architectural books are a far cry from my usual eye candy selections.  Both The Concrete House by Pieter A VanderWerf and The Rammed Earth House by David Easton are detailed and practical… Read More

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