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Recent Reads – May 2012
by Joan Dye Gussow – A wonderful book about how a garden sustains a person beyond the food that it provides. The story of her garden is her story of survival … of being transplanted into a new community, of a horrendous remodeling experience, of the death of her husband, and of the transformation into … Continue reading
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jim Robbins
I received thru the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program (you can read the review over there). The book made me think about planting more trees and more native trees. I have all ready purchased a number of native shrubs and small trees for our small yard, but I have been thinking about other things that I … Continue reading
Landscaping with Herbs
Rodale’s Essential Herbal Handbooks: Landscaping With Herbs written by Nancy Ondra is an interesting little book. It will tell you nothing about the use of the herbs recommended for planting. It will tell you very little about the cultivation of various herb varieties. It offers a number of very specific landscape designs that gardeners can either … Continue reading
Fannie’s Last Supper: Recreating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer’s 1896 Cookbook
Part history, part memoir, and part cookbook, Fannie’s Last Supper is a wonderfully written story of the book and one man’s quest to create a twelve-course dinner representative of those created by the original readers of Farmer’s 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. Leaving no stone unturned, Chris Kimball gives us a real feeling for the life, times, … Continue reading
Recent Read: Wicked Plants
Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart is entertaining but slightly disappointing! Interesting little book that provides some of the basic details about many poisonous plants, but don’t think that you will learn anything more than the basics from it. The illustrations are useful for identification and while scientific names are given, the descriptions are too vague to … Continue reading
Been busy …
Okay, I have not been very good at keeping my blog updated recently. Well, I do have an excuse the last two weeks … I got a job! I am now working at the National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum here in Alexandria, Va. I am enjoying the new job and I got really … Continue reading
More recent reads … fiction, fish, food, & foreign
Okay, it has been awhile since I have updated on what books I have recently been reading … The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver – Yes, for the first time in a really long time, I read a work of fiction that was written less than five decades ago! I read this book because we … Continue reading
Recent Reads … dogs, history, politics, food, and more
Amazon.com Widgets Whether it is a book about understanding dogs, the food system, the history of the AK, or something else, I enjoy reading a vast array of nonfiction. Here are my recently completed volumes, in no particular order: (Beware, it is not a short list.)
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
Sure, modern celebrity has a different character than traditional heros and modern events are regularly planned, but is this really that different than the past when leaders were made into celebrities and every town had its best known members or the planning of major events on auspicious dates? For me, not really. While this book … Continue reading
Recent Reading … a slight backlog
Okay, I have been busy recently and have not had time to post some of the books that I have been reading. So, before I take this load back to the library, here they are: Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson – While Jackie Robinson broke the … Continue reading
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