Sam Savage's first novel, Firmin, chronicled the coming-of-age misadventures of a very literate rat living in a bookstore in Boston's Scollay Square. Garnering praise from authors and...
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What a pretty pretty book! It's worth the price for the illustrations alone. All those great pulpy colors!
The fun of it, though, is in the sheer absurdity of some of the design concepts. "Oh, ha ha. Look: it's a house made of FOAM!" ...but really it's about the passionate inventor. Like the Simpson's episode where Homer designs a car. It's like that. Something new and far out for the sake of being new and far out...and maybe just incredibly useful.
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
emily lavalentine, January 30, 2007
Dust jacket features innovative 'faux duct tape' technology!!!(20 of 47 readers found this comment helpful)
Follies of Science: 20th Century Visions of Our Fantastic Future by Eric Dregni and Jonathan Dregni
emily lavalentine, January 27, 2007
What a pretty pretty book! It's worth the price for the illustrations alone. All those great pulpy colors!The fun of it, though, is in the sheer absurdity of some of the design concepts. "Oh, ha ha. Look: it's a house made of FOAM!" ...but really it's about the passionate inventor. Like the Simpson's episode where Homer designs a car. It's like that. Something new and far out for the sake of being new and far out...and maybe just incredibly useful.
(14 of 24 readers found this comment helpful)
Come Fly with Us!: A Global History of the Airline Hostess by Johanna Omelia
emily lavalentine, January 27, 2007
A LOVELY, illustrated history of the stewardess.THE perfect gift for the Stew-bum (or the 'Coffee, Tea, or Me' girl) in your life
Siiigh. It's such a shame that go-go boots are no longer considered appropriate stewardess-wear.
(20 of 31 readers found this comment helpful)
The Dim Sum of All Things by Kim Wong Keltner
emily lavalentine, January 26, 2007
Adrienne recommended this to me...and I loved it.Loved-loved it.
(14 of 24 readers found this comment helpful)
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
emily lavalentine, December 21, 2006
the highlight of this book for me was the'prohibition era euphamisms for alcohol.'
the best being:
jazz chowder.
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