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If you want to laugh, cry, be inspired, and finish a lazy-Saturday read before Monday morning, read this. Regardless of your experience -- or lack thereof -- with monks, and no matter your faith -- or lack thereof -- something in these stories will speak to you.
Well-named, the only reasonably comprehensive and solidly informative guide to Washington as wine-country and Washington wineries. Indispensible for anyone interested in the topic.
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An unparalleled (in my reading experience) discussion of death and dying, disguised in L'Engle's always-engrossing memoir story-telling style. This is the only book I've read that is gentle and hard-hitting, thought-provoking and easy to read, challenging but fun all at the same time.
This is one of those marvelous cookbooks that is as much story as recipe collection. In this case, the story is a collection of stories, a world tour of cuisines and cultures. "Frug" prefaces recipes from each "immigrant ancestor" with a few pages about their way of life and of eating, what drove them to become American immigrants, and how they have adapted to their new country. Even better, the recipes are reliably good and most of them are easily accessible for the average american cook. This has become one of my standby references for recipes and for cultural information alike.
This is NOT just a book for graphic designers or advertising agents or people in marketing or business or any other "just" category that might come to your mind. Everyone works with type in some way -- even by reading it if not by creating or using it. This book will forever more change the way that you look at a page of text, make the next one you create much easier and more enjoyable to read, entertain you in the meantime, and say it all briefly enough to get you back to your favorite novel in no time.
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Voices of Silence: Lives of the Trappists Today by Frank Bianco
Erika Szymanski, September 1, 2011
If you want to laugh, cry, be inspired, and finish a lazy-Saturday read before Monday morning, read this. Regardless of your experience -- or lack thereof -- with monks, and no matter your faith -- or lack thereof -- something in these stories will speak to you.Washington Wines and Wineries: The Essential Guide by Paul Gregutt
Erika Szymanski, January 1, 2011
Well-named, the only reasonably comprehensive and solidly informative guide to Washington as wine-country and Washington wineries. Indispensible for anyone interested in the topic.(1 of 2 readers found this comment helpful)
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother by Madeleine Lengle
Erika Szymanski, November 14, 2010
An unparalleled (in my reading experience) discussion of death and dying, disguised in L'Engle's always-engrossing memoir story-telling style. This is the only book I've read that is gentle and hard-hitting, thought-provoking and easy to read, challenging but fun all at the same time.Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Ancestors
Erika Szymanski, July 19, 2010
This is one of those marvelous cookbooks that is as much story as recipe collection. In this case, the story is a collection of stories, a world tour of cuisines and cultures. "Frug" prefaces recipes from each "immigrant ancestor" with a few pages about their way of life and of eating, what drove them to become American immigrants, and how they have adapted to their new country. Even better, the recipes are reliably good and most of them are easily accessible for the average american cook. This has become one of my standby references for recipes and for cultural information alike.Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann and E. M. Ginger
Erika Szymanski, July 5, 2010
This is NOT just a book for graphic designers or advertising agents or people in marketing or business or any other "just" category that might come to your mind. Everyone works with type in some way -- even by reading it if not by creating or using it. This book will forever more change the way that you look at a page of text, make the next one you create much easier and more enjoyable to read, entertain you in the meantime, and say it all briefly enough to get you back to your favorite novel in no time.1-5 of 12next