Category Archive: Books

D*U*C*K

Ron predicted that UW would examine Staci and send her right back home to Kathi’s and so they did. He talked to them on the phone. Clint got in okay and they will… Read More

A Field Guide To Sprawl

Today’s Harry Potter debut at work was a bit anti-climactic. An e-mail last night advised that 175 copies were received at library hq at 4:30pm and were quickly stamped, stickered, cataloged and put… Read More

Travel By Pullman

My three days off passed all too quickly and mostly all I did was catch up on sleep. Did not make it to the museum or any where else, though I did go… Read More

Call of the Mall

I first read about Paco Underhill in The Naked Consumer a 1992 book by Erik Larson. As a retail anthropologist, Underhill works with large retail companies to help them improve their stores and… Read More

Roux The Day

Roux The Day is one of a series of seven Gourmet Detective mysteries by Peter King. The "Gourmet Detective" is a London-based foodie who works for chefs finding rare ingredients, recipes and substitutions.… Read More

How I Learned To Cook

Happy Saturday! I’m off from work today and we plan to spend the afternoon hanging out with Staci and watching videos. (We finally managed to get together with her for lunch the other… Read More

Michael Tolliver Lives

Yesterday I worked a 3-9pm shift and was happy to find in my mailbox the copy of Michael Tolliver Lives that I had requested. I started reading on my lunch hour, then stayed… Read More

The Buddies Cycle

The Buddies Cycle consists of five books: I’ve a Feeling We’re Not In Kansas Anymore: Tales From Gay Manhattan (published in 1985) Buddies (published in 1986), Everybody Loves You (published in 1988), Some… Read More

The Ravaging Tide

Subtitled “Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Costal Cities”, The Ravaging Tide is a book about global warming by Mike Tidwell, author of Bayou Farewell. At first, it seems… Read More

Jennifer Government

Max Barry’s Jennifer Government is a dystopian fantasy set in a not too distant future when corporations have come to totally dominate the life of the planet. People take on their employer’s name… Read More

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