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fools puzzle.......2007-07-13
So far I have not found a book of hers I do not like. Like I said in the past. I really feel like I am there. I hope everyone has the same enjoyment I have reading her mysteries
Entertaining and believable characters.......2005-09-03
I am a real fan of the Benni Harper books, and look forward every year to the new offering. Each book stands on it own, but there is a definite 'continuing saga' flavor in all of them so they are best when read in order. You don't have to know about quilts to enjoy the books; the mysteries touch on things we all recognize: love, hate, family, greed, drugs, blackmail, cultural differences and changing times. The strong relationships of the characters really add to the tale, and the quilt of the title always illustrates the matter, somehow. If you enjoy books that are really about the characters, instead of just the whodunnit, how and why; you will love Benni and her friends and family.
Fool's Puzzle by Earlene Fowler.......2005-08-21
Very good, holds your interest, just enough romance to make you guess about the story line.
Great Series.......2005-07-19
The characters are likable and have depth to them. I enjoy the bits of quilting trivia.
BEST Mystery series around !.......2004-04-17
I love the Benni Harper Mysteries they grab you and make you feel like you actually know the families and leave you wanting and waiting for more !!
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- A book you will geniunely enjoy
- I really love Colorful Illusions
- Best homework assignment
- My mom and me read this book together
- Beautiful, beautiful book
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Colorful Illusions: Tricks to Fool Your Eyes
Aki Nurosi , and
Mark Shulman
Manufacturer: Sterling
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Step into the color zone...where cool effects are the rule and nothing is what it first appears to be. Colors can always fool you—making objects seem larger, smaller, faster, or even better looking than they really are. And, when they interact with a range of very special forms and shapes, the optical magic becomes more powerful still. Just try one out and see if you can tell what’s going on.
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A book you will geniunely enjoy.......2003-01-14
I noticed that a previous reviewer gives Colorful Illusions as a frequent gift. I do too! The book is a skillful blend of art book, puzzle book, gift book and educational book (but don't tell my children!). We learned a little about how colors can trick your eyes and we enjoy going back and forth over the puzzles. Very artistic, not at all your usual black and white slap-dash illusion book. It is really a book of art. I was also attracted to the easy-to-follow writing, I think Aki Nurosi is a genuine talent and my family looks forward to more books.
I really love Colorful Illusions.......2002-02-13
This is a fun and pretty and easy to read book. You should see all the ways that colors can fool you. I was amazed!
Best homework assignment.......2001-12-01
My teacher had us read ColorfulIllusions for an assignment and we didn't know what to think until we started reading it. The book is really pretty and really fun to use and figure out the puzzles and it's just so plain and simple and nice to read. You should read the book and try the puzzles and buy it on Amazon. com and you will see what I mean!
My mom and me read this book together.......2001-06-10
My mom and me love Colorful Illusions. I like how it has some really clever and interesting puzzles. My mom likes how it is teaching us interesting things about hwo color works. I did not know all the things that the book talks about. It is a very pretty and fun book. we never get tired of it!
Beautiful, beautiful book.......2001-05-17
I love this book. I look at it over and over again. It is very amazing.
Book Description
Each of these optical illusions is a masterpiece of colorful design, with visual tricks to confound the mind and please the eye. Just don’t trust anything you see at first glance, because it’s impossible to judge spatial relations, or even the subject of a picture, accurately. In some cases, the colors themselves deceive the eye, making objects seem larger, smaller, faster, or even better looking than they really are. Hold onto your hats—two fancy stovepipe hats, that is: are they taller than they are wide, wider than they are tall, or the same dimensions? Or try climbing the wild set of stairs: they’ll have you going in circles and in squares. There’s plenty of beautifully intriguing fun on these pages.
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A puzzle for fools
Patrick Quentin
Manufacturer: Avon
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ASIN: B0008AR140 |
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A Country-Asylum Murder.......1997-12-02
If I get a bad grade on my O. chem. midterm I'm blaming this book. It was given to me to read while I was in the middle of studying and it caused some sizable breaks in my attempts to learn what a carboxylic acid is. Needless to say, I found it pretty engrossing, or at least more than my textbook.
A Puzzle for Fools is essentially a country house murder, with the twist being that it's set in a mental hospital. It has the set group of people who could be suspects, the limited setting and the basic interactions, the doctors take the role of the hosts, the staff of the servants etc., that are typical to that classic genre of mysteries, but the setting itself give a flair of the unusual.
The story is narrated by Peter Duluth, a recovering alcoholic who is among the more sane of the inmates of the asylum. By virtue of his sanity, and the fact that he discovers the bodies, Duluth is taken into the confidence of the authorities and tries to solve the mystery on his own. The murderer starts with a campaign of frightening various inmates and using their neuroses to his advantage. He (and I should mention that I'm using the indefinite pronoun here) then moves on to a particularly gruesome and brutal murder.
To criticize, I would say that the murderer is a bit to miraculous, has too many skills that just happen to be perfect for the job at hand. It's not entirely believable and tends to the melodramatic. The other problem is that it got very confusing at the end, when I was certain that it had been stated that one person was the murderer, but then the very characters that made the statement seemed to ignore and forget it, leaving a welter of confusion that was never cleared up.
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multiple books ship as one item. save on shipping/handling charges.
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Artful Illusions: Designs to Fool Your Eyes
Aki Nurosi , and
Mark Shulman
Manufacturer: Sterling
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Optical Illusions——each a masterpiece of colorful design.
Aki Nurosi and Mark Shulman, the authors of Colorful Illusions, are back to play more astonishing visual tricks. These exquisitely designed brain-bending, mind-blowing, all-color optical illusions will really fool your eyes. Each is a masterpiece, created to appeal to wide-eyed children, design students, and art lovers. Hold onto your hats—two fancy stovepipe hats, that is: can you tell whether they’re taller than they are wide, wider than they are tall, or the same size? Or try climbing the wild set of stairs: they’ll have you going in circles and in squares. Other cool illusions include the Sander Parallelogram, the Necker’s Cube, and the Defective Perspective, with its simulated 3-D.
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Mordgefluster [A Puzzle for Fools]
Patrick Quentin
Manufacturer: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munchen
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PUZZLE FOR FOOLS
Manufacturer: AVON
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000I8R98K |
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Wonderful book.......2000-06-09
"Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore" is a fascinating and original fantasy. Sheri Tepper's imagery is terrific (the dinner made me hungry!), her prose is lucid and beautiful. A strong and vulnerable heroine, an equally strong and vulnerable hero, some pernicious villains and a great supporting cast. Not to mention one of the most inventive plots I have ever seen in a fantasy. I wish they'd reprint the entire trilogy!
Fabulous Entertainment.......2000-02-27
All three of the Marianne books are full of wonder on every page. No one could fail to love Mariane, and delight in her incredably imaginative experiences, in the most original of alternate realities. As deeply enjoyable as the first two are, the third and final book, Marianne, the Matchbox and the Malachite Mouse is even better.
Marianne Trilogy.......2000-02-03
Marianne, Magus and the Manticore, is the first in the Marianne trilogy. I picked up a copy of this trilogy at Harrod's in London England when I was travelling in 1992. It's my favourite book, and irreplacable to me. I'm hoping that they will reprint this book at somepoint. I would love to purchase this for gifts. Her dream imagry is amazing. I work in a library and I particularly enjoyed the dream sequence where she is trapped working in the library. It's not unlike nightmares I've had! :-)
An intricate, delicately crafted story........1998-10-24
I enjoyed this book so much I've reread it 6 times so far. Ms. Tepper entertains with detail as much as with plot. Her worlds are complete with rules and roles to play and she's able to involve the reader in each new environment within a few paragraphs.
The story is a bit dark, but a spark of hope and courage is always present to keep you reading.
My only displeasure was when the book ended. I enjoyed her second installment "Marianne and the Momentary Gods," nearly as much as the first and only regret that she didn't continue beyond three books.
Fantastic.......1998-05-30
The story in this book might have just as well come from my dreams. It is absolutely magical and keeps me coming back looking for a sequel.
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Three paperbacks published between 1985 and 1989.
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- Gojiro
- The Most Entrancing Book I've Ever Picked Up
- An exhilirating experience of a book!
- Great concept, bad execution
- A really sad excuse for a book
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Gojiro
Mark Jacobson
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Release Date: 1992-12-01 |
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Imagine Lewis Carroll, Julian Jaynes, and Thomas Pynchon collaborating on a book about the cosmological quest of a five-hundred-foot-tall mutated monitor lizard and his friend, Coma Boy, an amnesiac survivor of the Hiroshima bomb blast. Well, forget it, you're never going to see those writers working together. Thankfully, Mark Jacobson took this task upon his own true self. Jacobson's GOJIRO is a wild and humorous fairytale about the Atomic age, about a terrifying world redeemed by love, friendship, the survival instinct, and a willingness to break down old inventions for new parts.
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Imagine Lewis Carroll, Julian Jaynes, and Thomas Pynchon collaborating on a book about the cosmological quest of a five-hundred-foot-tall mutated monitor lizard and his friend, Coma Boy, an amnesiac survivor of the Hiroshima bomb blast. Well, forget it, you're never going to see those writers working together. Thankfully, Mark Jacobson took this task upon his own true self. Jacobson's GOJIRO is a wild and humorous fairytale about the Atomic age, about a terrifying world redeemed by love, friendship, the survival instinct, and a willingness to break down old inventions for new parts.
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Gojiro.......2001-03-31
It is a satire about Godzilla. It is great. The whole story is told from Gojiro's point of view. He is a suicidal monitor lizard who lives on Radioactive Island with all of the Atoms. He is that way because he is one of a kind and he can't die. Komodo, his life-long human friend, goes with him on all of his adventures. This is an extremely serious book, with a lot of philosophy involved.
The Most Entrancing Book I've Ever Picked Up.......2000-08-08
It's really unfortunate that I can't find another book by this wonderful author... When I first picked up the book, I as well was expecting a grim sci-fi Nuclear War deal, but, like other readers, I was also pleasantly suprised. The characters actually *do* undergo great development, and a big plus is that this book isn't hung up on logical obstacles- that's the great originality behind this book... I definitely recommend this title to anyone with a love for reading. If your one of those people who reads only to criticize, then that's *really* sad. Just get passed that, and read a book for fun... That's what this book is all about ^_^
An exhilirating experience of a book!.......2000-08-03
This book has touched me as few others have. It really is an awesome and engrossing novel, unusual and eccentric as it may be.
I'm aware it's not for everyone, as I can see by the other reviews posted here. And, to tell the truth, it's not really a genre sf novel, so people looking for long-winded physiological descriptions of Godzilla, leave now.
Frankly, this is NOT a Godzilla book. It is NOT an action-packed thriller or a pretentious hard sf novel filled with technobabble. This is a deeply philosophical work that uses the image of Godzilla, a mistake of human technology becoming the defender of humanity, as a symbol of evolution; mutation becoming adaptation becoming progress. The author freely edits scientific and historical details for the purposes of the story, which is more like an epic poem or painting than a straight narrative; characters, while on one level being very real people, also serve as symbolic archetypes, and the many seemingly-impossible events, while reinforcing the otherworldly atmosphere of the story, also all have a point behind them, once you look. (For example, the creation and growth of Radioactive Island through seemingly haphazard chance serves as a strong metaphor for evolution throughout the story.) The premise, a Godzilla-like creature developing a sort of religious cult philosophy that becomes inadvertently broadcast in a series of movies, seems silly at first, but the thing is, it works. More than that, it works so well that it strongly colored my perceptions of the real-life Godzilla; I'd been aware that he was a symbol of the Nuclear Age before, but this really brought it home to me.
The contrived slang, the "hip" lingo, the monster's cynicism... While some might be turned off by it, it worked for me. If you can start to accept the novel on its own terms, try to understand the beautiful alternate world and belief system it depicts rather than judging it, then before long the internal logic of Gojiro becomes clear, and concepts and events that initially seem silly become poignant and touching. The novel purposely uses unfamiliar, strange-sounding language to get us to see difficult issues in a new light, and get us to think from the monster's perspective. Somehow it all works, it all comes together, and it does make its own mutant kind of sense. Which is really what the novel is about, at heart, evolution and change, misfits from the old order becoming the seed of the new one, mutants making their own mutant kind of sense, and prospering.
The novel's ultimate message was uplifting and optimistic while at the same time remaining realistic and consistent with the cynical points it made earlier; it seems corny and weird, but, in the end, I believed it. It brought the whole novel together masterfully, and the touching epilogue left tears in my eyes. This novel made a huge impression on me, and I'd recommend it to anyone willing to keep an open mind and experience serious ideas from a different point of view.
Great concept, bad execution.......2000-07-23
What a great book this could have been!
The idea that Gojiro not only actually exists, but is also a deep and cynical thinker at the center of a quasi-religious cult is very creative. Unfortunately, there are two problems that prevent it from being the book it could have been.
The first problem is the story, or lack of one. Nothing really happens in the book. In it's 300 plus pages there is so little action and character growth that it's easy to find yourself dozing off if you read it at night.
The second and biggest problem is the over-pretentious, forced writing style. Jacobson tries so hard to be hip and trendy that the story (what little there is of one) becomes difficult to follow and the book just becomes painful to read.
"Gojiro" has some great philosophical ideas regarding God and Man, and Nature and Science, but it lacked the cohesion to pull any of those ideas together. Instead we're left with a rambling story with no focus written in a heavy-handed, fake ultra-cool narrative. It's clear that the author had something to say. I just wish he would have said it in English.
A really sad excuse for a book.......2000-06-03
This books is so self consciously hip and cool that it gave me a headache. I loved the premise that a Godzilla like creature could exist, but the matieral was so ineptly handled that I grew more and more depressed. The ending was pretty good, but the beginning was so sloppy I almost didn't make it to the ending. Just because you think you're hip and aware does not make it so.
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Gojiro
Mark Jacobson
Manufacturer: PENGUIN PUTNAM * TRADE
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Gojiro
Mark JACOBSON
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Gojiro
Mark Jacobson
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Simply put, Honey from a Weed is a jewel of a book. Reading it, one realizes the true artistry of the author, a person whose relationship with the world around her is both intimate and immediate--someone who can transform the fruits of the earth--beans, potatoes, garlic, herbs--into a gustatory masterpiece. The subtitle of Gray's book is Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia, but there's far more feast than famine in this culinary odyssey. Recipes for such Mediterranean favorites as rabbit with garlic sauce or polenta punctuate wonderful reflections on such varied topics as wine, pigs, and edible weeds; chapters on feasts and festivals; and sharp-eyed observations about the lives of those Gray has lived among for so many years.
Literate and lyrical, Honey from a Weed is a feast for both body and soul. Read Gray's wonderful portraits of the places she's lived and the cooks she's learned from, and let your mind wander over the sunbathed hills, through the rustic villages and deep quarries Gray knows so intimately. Though reading Honey from a Weed may not influence you to take up stone-carving or cooking, at least you'll have spent your time in charming company.
Book Description
The author has for the last 20 years shared her life with a sculptor whose appetite for marble and sedimentary rocks has taken them to Tuscany, Catalonia, Naxos and Apulia. She has written a passionate autobiographical cookbook, Mediterranean through and through and as compelling as a first class novel.
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Real Food for the Soul.......2007-08-16
Honey From a Weed provides a feel for a life of love and a lust for life. Here we have the essence of the Slow Food Movement, healthy heart, and devotional spiritual life -- love the Earth and be loved by the Earth.
I once asked the great Portland Chef Greg Higgins to identify his favorite cook book . He said he buys Honey from a Weed for his friends so they can forage together in the fields and steams of the Northwest.
This is as good as it gets.
1. Stunning writing as good a food literature ever becomes.
2. Fresh and found ingredients as all food is local and right outside the door - between the rows of corn and the among the vineyard weeds.
3. Slow and steady and simple. This puts a spear right through the heart of the royal and the pompous food world.
4. Peasant food is the food that 90 percent of the world eats and holds up to God at sunrise.
5. Simple tools. Forget the newest and fanciest electronic gadget and go to the thrift store if you want to be a great cook.
6. One or two dish meals. What is better than crusty bread, tomatoes, olives, garlic, local cheese, basil and red wine? Do we really want or need more?
7. Family food for one or two or three or friends or village.
8. What recipes? See, gather, prepare, cook, eat, devote.
9. Spiritual life in the garden and in the field. The hills glow with the peasant energy of Jean Giono.
I read this book every year. It is nourishing in every dimension -- the body, the brain, and the spirit.
Get it and live a better life.
A Fascinating Window on Rural Greek and Italian Life and Eating.......2005-09-23
Traditional cultural habits of eating, involving foraging for foods growing wild in the area, have always fascinated me, but I have found that most books talk about the foods harvested in general terms, and give little of substance to work with. Patience Gray opens the door to the world of wild food foraging, describing and discussing in great detail the species used, with the local names for each, when they are used, and how they are collected for everything from spring salads to autumn seafood, and how wild and cultivated foods are integrated with one another into the day to day cuisine. The best book on European cooking I have ever read. It is so good it has become one of my favorite gifts to give to f riends.
Epitome of Great Culinary Writing. Buy it and Read it Now!.......2004-12-31
`Honey from a Weed' by Patience Gray, by my very informal survey of approximately 400 cookbooks over the last year is probably the single most cited culinary book after Harold McGee's `On Food and Cooking' and Julia Child's `Mastering the Art of French Cooking. And, I have been trying to place this most distinctive work in the world of culinary writing for about the same time. I think I am finally able to identify its niche in a way that will assist potential readers to know what it is they can look forward to.
It is no whim to the publishers, Lyons & Burford, tagging the work as `Cooking/Literature'. The quality of the writing is easily on a par with the greatest food writers in English and this talent is directed to producing an almost unique genre that can be approximated by combining at least three common genres of culinary writing. First, take 40% from culinary diarists such as Amanda Hesser's `The Cook and the Gardener' and Elizabeth Romer's `The Tuscan Year'. Then, leaven with John Thorne's brand of culinary reporting and bake in the oven of Elizabeth David's culinary sophistication and cosmopolitan outlook.
Like Hesser in `The Cook and the Gardener', Ms. Gray is `embedded' within the milieu's on which she reports. But like Hesser of `Cooking for Mr. Latte', Ms. Gray is also participating in these cultures of Tuscany (Beantown central), Catalonia (Spain on the Mediterranean coast just south of France), the Cyclades (Greek islands in the Aegean), and Apulia (the heel of Italy). She is living and working in these worlds in a way very uncommon for a typical journalist or scholar.
The events driving the book's backstory are the travels of Ms. Gray with her partner, never identified more exactly than by the references `the sculptor' and `a stone carver' to various sites around the Mediterranean which are homes to marble quarries for giving up raw materials for statuary. A sample of the poetic imagery in the book describes this fact as `A vein of marble runs through this book. Marble determined where, how, and among whom we lived; always in primitive conditions.' These primitive conditions place Ms. Gray and her companion smack into the heart of environments which well-fed culinary commentators such as Mario Batali have been describing as the wellspring of great cuisine in Italy and other parts of the Mediterranean. Making do with local seasonal ingredients is not an ideological position for Ms. Gray; it is a daily fact of life!
I am generally not impressed with authors' lists of kitchen equipment offered as suggestions for your kitchen in order to pad out an extra ten pages in their books, when whole volumes cannot deal with this subject. Ms. Gray's recitation of her kitchen gear is not to teach, it is to aid us in understanding her kitchen environment in these rocky corners of the world.
The text is divided fairly evenly between chapters that deal with the author's experiences in these places with chapters dealing with a class of recipes typical of the local folk. This means one can pick up the thread of Ms. Gray's dialogue with her environment at just about any page and follow it's thread through the Mediterranean labyrinth of cuisine, as suggested by John Thorne in his Foreword. Just now, I open the book at random to a description of the rural Tuscan method for preserving `lardo', the fat from the pig's rump which is rubbed with salt, sprinkled with some dried thyme and bay, and sealed in an earthenware jar, where it stays as sweet as the day it was stored. The finer fat from around the pig's organs, `lardo strutto', is saved separately and used for yeast cakes and pastry. In a single paragraph there is information which some authors have used to fill whole articles in `Saveur'.
One especially delightful confluence of the book's themes is the chapter on mushrooms found near the marble quarry used by Michelangelo. Having read more than one book on mushrooms by such experts as Antonio Carluccio and Patricia Grigson, I find Ms. Gray's writing on these mycological treasures to be as entertaining and as informative as some of the best known works on the subject by other culinary writers.
While virtually all of the recipes can be done in a modern American kitchen, Ms. Gray typically describes them as they are done `in situ' on the campfires and coal burning ovens available to her. This enhances her work as a study of primitive cookery, leaving it to us to translate the primitive to our electric All-Clad kitchens. The book is also a feast of words. Everything is labeled with its proper Italian, Spanish, or Greek names, with complete translations. This is, after all, a work of scholarship where names in the original language are needed to be certain that references in Italian, Spanish, or Greek books are matched up correctly.
While this is a book of scholarship as much as it is a literary effort, I am delighted that Ms. Gray has included two items that I consider essential to good culinary studies. The first is not one but an entire set of excellent maps identifying the locations that are the subject of her writing. The second is an excellent bibliography arranged by site that cites not just the usual sources such as Elizabeth David and Alan Davidson. It includes both ancient and modern sources in English and Spanish, Italian, and Greek. But, we are not left to our own devices with ancient Latin or Greek, as classical works are cited in good English translations. The author has also been so considerate as to provide a list of Corinna Sargood's line drawings that contribute much to the charm of the book.
I must encourage you to seek this book out if you love reading about food. The author lives and paints the culinary environment most other writers simply report. Very highly recommended.
A rare treasure.......2000-12-06
This is a wonderful book, a true and rare treasure, full of hunger and appetite, joy and toil. Books like this are sometimes called "a labor of love", which is somewhat of a cliche, but this book is brimfull of all the labor and love that goes into gathering, harvesting, preserving and cooking food grown for its own sake. Here, food is not a commodity to be bought and sold but a mainstay of life, a vital ingredient for happiness, a celebration of simple and good - but hard - life. The book would be valuable enough if that was all but there are also so many delightful recipes, so many wonderful anecdotes and descriptions, so much interesting autobiographical material. I've seen someone compare Honey from a Weed to Frances Mayers tedious Tuscanny books but don't let that mislead you; this is a very different book, written with immense sensitivity and hard-earned knowledge of the land the author has cultivated and the people she lived with and learned from.
If Gauguin wrote cookbooks..........1997-08-18
I first read Ms. Gray's book looking for a specific recipe, how was I to know it was not just a 'cookbook', but a charming look at life? Ms. Gray's stories about life among the stonecutters, peasants and artists of Greece and Italy was a delight to read. I'm buying extra copies to pass them around to cooks and non-cooks alike, anyone who needs to see firsthand that living well, often on a shoestring, can be the best revenge. Wonderful illustrations, simple recipes for soul-satisfying food...and one woman's recipe for a simpler life.
If this doesn't make you long to quit the 'day job' and run off to live on grilled sardines and fresh tomatoes in Tuscany or Naxos, call Tech Support, you've got some wires disconnected.
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Honey from the Weed
Althea McDowell
Manufacturer: Associates Graphic Services
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A young woman with multiple sclerosis chronicles her deteriorating health, her past and present relationships and her relocation to a long-term care facility--with humor and love. Distributed by Happy Harry's.
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- Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Mystery (Mystery Masters)
- Hotel Paradise (Random House Large Print)
- In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
- Jane and His Lordship's Legacy (Jane Austen Mysteries)
- Jolie Blon's Bounce
- Liberty Falling (Anna Pigeon Mysteries)
- Limpieza de sangre (Aventuras del Capitan Alatriste)
- Long After Midnight
- Looking for Rachel Wallace
- Masterpieces in Miniature: The Detectives: Stories by Agatha Christie
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