So I am one year older today and two books richer! Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger and Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett. I am a very happy wee Bookiemonster. The Pratchett first I think. By the way this was my first test post from my Ipod Touch!
Oct 292009
Description: National Book Award winner Tim O’Brien strikes at the emotional nerve center of our lives with this ambitious, compassionate, and terrifically compelling new novel that tells the remarkable story of the generation molded and defined by the 1960s. At the thirtieth anniversary of Minnesota’s Darton Hall College class of 1969, ten old friends reassemble for a July weekend of dancing, drinking, flirting, reminiscing, and regretting. The three decades since their graduation have seen marriage and divorce, children and careers, dreams deferred and disappointed-many memories and many ghosts. Together their individual stories create a portrait of a generation launched into adulthood at the moment when their country, too, lost its innocence. Imbued with his signature themes of passion, memory, and yearning, July, July is Tim O’Brien’s most fully realized work. BookieMonster says: I was lucky enough 13 years ago (I can’t believe it’s been that long) to see Tim O’Brien [...read more...]
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Oct 272009
see more Lolcats and funny pictures Teehee
Oct 222009
Weekends for Trout Fishing in New Zealand by Colin Moore Description: Everyone knows that fishing is the perfect antidote to stress. So what better way to unwind after a full-on week at work than grabbing a copy of Weekends for Trout Fishing in New Zealand, packing up the car with your fishing gear, and heading off for an idyllic day or two of angling? This handy guide divides the coutnry into 13 regions, each of which is described in an overiew along with some recommendations about where – and when – to go in terms of the rivers, streams and lakes within each region. What makes Weekends for Trout Fishing in New Zealand different to other fishing books is that it provides regional listings of great places to stay – from hotels, motels and homely b&b establishments through to a ‘once in a lifetime’ exclusive fishing lodge experience – as [...read more...]
Oct 212009
You know how sometimes you find a small treasure, a very little thing that no one else in the world seems to know about and you think how is it that I’ve never heard of this and any minute now everyone’s going to be telling me how they’ve heard of this and how cool it is and how I’m so behind everyone else, only they never do and it stays seemingly hidden and you keep it all to yourself for years until one day when you decide to write a blog post on it and thereby reveal it to your many (okay 20) followers? You know? Ladies and gentlemans, let me present to you The Boy Who Kicked Pigs by Tom Baker. Description: This is the story of Robert Caligari – a thoroughly evil 13-year-old who gets his kicks from kicking pigs. After a humiliating episode with a bacon butty, [...read more...]
Oct 212009
So in the weekend I spied the MOST gorgeous looking cooking/gardening book of the year – Stephanie Alexander’s Kitchen Garden Companion (Penguin Books, RRP$140 – yes that’s one hundred and forty). Thick with a cloth dustjacket, chock full of photos, recipes and garden information and it’s been designed like a… well, I’m not a swearer so let’s just say like a “someone who likes mothers just a whole lot”. Geddit? Gorgeousness. And I found this morning this wonderful blog post from Caustic Cover Critic extolling the many virtues of this tome. With photos. Read and drool. http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2009/10/food-and-gardening-porn-collide-guest.html P.S. Have I let myself in for a world of pain by using the “P-word” in the title? Spammers – this is still just about books.
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