Canal House Cooking Volume No. 7: La Dolce Vita, by Christopher Hirscheimer
The Canal House Cooking series is a seasonal collection of favorite recipes--home cooking by home cooks for home cooks. All the recipes are easy to prepare, all completely doable for the novice and experienced cook alike. The everyday practice of simple cooking and the enjoyment of eating are two of the greatest pleasures in life. This volume celebrates the bounty of fall and the festive holiday season with delicious Italian dishes, some classic, some reinterpreted Canal House style.
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Chabon's extraordinary story of one turbulent weekend in the life of a struggling writer, a satire of the permanent adolescence of the creative class.
A wildly successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and seven years later he still hasn't grown up. He's now a writing professor in Pittsburgh, plummeting through middle age, stuck with an unfinishable manuscript, an estranged wife, a pregnant girlfriend, and a talented but deeply disturbed student named James Leer. During one lost weekend at a writing festival with Leer and debauched editor Terry Crabtree, Tripp must finally confront the wreckage made of his past decisions.
AlterKnits Felt by Leigh Radford
In AlterKnits Felt, Radford pushes the boundaries of traditional felting, as she did with traditional knitting in her earlier book, AlterKnits. Through 30 colorful, vibrant projects, she shows readers how to knit and then felt their own handiwork, as well as how to create gorgeous felted objects from recycled knits and unspun fiber. An introductory chapter on felting basics explains everything you need to know to make the fabulous clothes, accessories, and home decor that follow.
Sugar Baby by Gesine Bullock-Prado
Cookbooks with recipes for baking with sugar (in the oven) continue to top the bestseller lists. And yet, no one has set out to do a cookbook with recipes on cooking with sugar (on the stovetop)--until now. In Sugar Baby, Gesine Bullock-Prado offers totally unintimidating step-by-step advice; the simplest instructions; recipes for candy, confections, and treats that integrate stovetop work into finished desserts; and a hilarious voice. Organized by temperature and chemical stages, here are more than 100 recipes for lollipops, caramel, rock candy, chocolate mousse, macarons, marshmallows, pudding pops, cakes, and much more. Sugar Baby will satisfy even the most demanding sweet tooth.
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Good Earth is Buck's classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple's fortunes improve over the years: They are blessed with sons, and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property in the House of Wang--the very house in which O-lan used to work. But success brings with it a new set of problems. Wang soon finds himself the target of jealousy, and as good harvests come and go, so does the social order. Will Wang's family cherish the estate after he's gone? And can his material success, the bedrock of his life, guarantee anything about his soul? Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells Award, The Good Earth was an Oprah's Book Club choice in 2004. A readers' favorite for generations, this powerful and beautifully written fable resonates with universal themes of hope and family unity.
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Wonder Boys. Love it!
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I've been getting the classics as ebooks, then taking my originals up to the family cabin. The cabin is not wired at all (sort of the point of going there), so I find it to be the right environment for reading real books in their classic paper form. I also think it will come in handy if the whole zombie apocalypse thing happens.
I know. I really do know. But still. Reading a book electronically feels a bit like connecting with friends electronically. It's good. It's better than nothing. But it can't beat face to face. I want to feel the pages the way I feel a friend's hand, hear the pages whisper as I turn them.
I like real books, and I still prefer cookbooks to be paper books but I've gone almost entirely to ebooks otherwise. It's really irritating to carry around a big book on the train, and nearly impossible to turn pages when you're trying to hold on when the train is lurching.
As far as cost, it doesn't really affect me as I get 99% of my ebooks from the public library.