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Family Guide London (DK Eyewitness Travel Family Guide) by Dk Publishing

twicelovedbooks, February 21, 2013

A trip to London with kids or grandkids?
It will be a piece of (tea)cake with this guide.

Planning a trip will be a snap with all the detail about the sights, eats, & sleeps.
Once there, the guide will be the best source of information for your entire visit -- throughout London and into the outlying environs.
Even planning breaks from sight-seeing is easy with the "Blowing Off Steam" sections about each location. Everything is geared for family enjoyment for all ages.

I only wish that all guidebooks had this much detail packed into them -- prices for all levels of your budget and info about things to check online before you go.
Kudos to the DK Eyewitness Family Guides for making the focus family and making it fun!

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My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes) by Luisa Weiss

twicelovedbooks, February 14, 2013

Far more than another blog turned book, like 'Julie and Julia' (Julie Powell) or 'Orangette' (Molly Wizenberg) -- both delightful books.
This is a love story to many extended families and all their recipes. It's also a travelogue of the places that Luisa Weiss loves. She makes the reader understand her loves...family, place, and glorious food. I started reading with an eye to compare to the other blog-books and found myself utterly transported to Paris, Berlin, Boston, LA. And I grabbed my shopping list to add the items I needed to make spaghetti sauce and baked beans and Depression Stew. Thanks for bringing us along for the entire ride of ups and downs and ups.

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Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

twicelovedbooks, February 5, 2013

Are you there, Bernadette? I certainly hope so...

You’ve given me a rollicking, frolicking look at the Pacific Northwest that only another transplant could see and appreciate….and I LOVE it! You poke fun at the most sacrosanct subjects (Microsoft, parkas, coffee, coughing, and all) and because it’s you, Bernadette, we forgive you all your foibles and find ourselves laughing -- at ourselves and the other gnats out there. Then, a mystery folded into a mystery folded into another mystery....

Thank you, Maria Semple, for bringing Bernadette, Bee, and Elgie to life! I hope you have come to love the mountains and the water and maybe Bernadette will give us a chance to see more of our world through her giant-sunglass-covered eyes.

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Moon Olympic Peninsula (Moon Olympic Peninsula) by Jeff Burlingame

twicelovedbooks, January 18, 2013

As a long-time resident of the Olympic Peninsula (over 16 years), I strongly recommend Jeff Burlingame’s Moon Handbook guide to the Olympic Peninsula. The author gives detailed information about the entire peninsula on sightseeing, places to stay and eat and shop. (Sadly, some have closed since publication date, due to the economy.) Burlingame also includes sidebars, histories and little-known facts that add more interest to the experience. I was thoroughly impressed with the depth and scope of the guidebook. He reminded me why I love to call the Peninsula home by pointing out some treasured favorite spots and luring me to venture out to try some other places. I’d recommend this guidebook to anyone interested in the vast space I call home and to anyone who lives here who needs another push to explore our great wilderness.
If you are interested in hiking on the Olympic Peninsula, I’d recommend 3 other books for you: Seabury Blair’s Day Hike! Olympic Peninsula, the best trails you can hike in a day and Erik Molvar’s Best Easy Day Hikes Olympic National Park or by the same author, Hiking Olympic National Park: a guide to the Park’s greatest hiking adventures.

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Just My Type: A Book about Fonts by Simon Garfield

twicelovedbooks, January 8, 2013

You've just finished Robin Sloan's brilliant "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore" and your curiousity is piqued by Gerritszoon, that singular typeface. Where to turn for research? Why, look no further than Simon Garfield's last word about Fonts and Typefaces, "Just My Type". Garfield's book will appeal to booklovers, word geeks, and designers in equal measure. It could be considered the nerds' answer to all things in print. But Simon Garfield's sense of humor wins the day and all those wonderful typefaces make their appearance. Is Gerritszoon present and accounted for? Better check.

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