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Emmaeus

Cookbooks. I love 'em, but I'm picky. I like a little history/background/lore along with a recipe, so I'm fond of Bert Greene, Maida Heatter, Sheila Lukins. In food essay, my favorite is the wonderful John Thorne, followed by the hoot-a-licious Jane and Michael Stern.

I rarely buy anything new (which is shameful, considering that I'm a...more »
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  • fotata

    fotata says

    by d way i like the pic. :)

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • fotata

    fotata says

    hi :)
    nice shelf :)
    just passin' by :)
    nice 2 know u :)

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • zenbooks

    zenbooks says

    Hi. Nice to meet you. Yes, I added myself in the depression group because I am a Mental Health Counselor and am always looking for good material.. And yes, my baby is a mini, 12 pounds, how about yours?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Tembi

    Tembi says

    I haven't wandered through Shelfariland in quite awhile, but wanted to drop a note and say hi. Have you looked at the new groups feature? I recall that you are a writer and I do believe they just started a discussion group for writers. You should check it out!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • JrSonnen

    JrSonnen says

    You are absolutely right about the Zasu Pitts cookbook. I would love it. I’ve decided to look for it at my favorite used bookstore. Have you seen this Santa Cruz Public Library Page on her and her various return visits to town?
    http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/films/zaphoto.shtml

    I am about 150 pages into the Katherine Graham book, and thank you for reminding me that I’ve been meaning to read it for 6 years! It has been a very slow read for me as I’ve been looking up details on her parents and their friends as I’ve plodded along. Graham is a wonderful story teller. She reminds me of my grandmother the way she can make the most mundane story come alive with detail and importance in the way she conveys meaning behind every exchange. The book provides a window into an entire subset of the population that seemed born into certainty that their influence on the world would be political. I can’t imagine my everyday existence being filled so thoroughly with such issues and related debates. In

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • JrSonnen

    JrSonnen says

    I just added a bunch of books from my library tonight and it took me all night to tag them! My goodness I hope they come up with a tool to manage tags. That was tedious. I have to admit I haven't actually read the Katherine Graham book. It hadn't quite made it over to the reading list when you saw it. I'm sure I will love it though. It has all the criteria for a great book, (imho), memoir of an intelligent woman, retelling of major historical/cultural events and business anecdotes. I will definitely let you know. I realized tonight that I have a lot of reading to do!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • LeeLee

    LeeLee says

    Oh, about my tags, I am trying to set up a virtual library for my homeschooling friends, so I try to think of my books in the subjects which might be studied. What if I had misspelled Greece! What kind of a cook would you have thought me to be :)

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • LeeLee

    LeeLee says

    Thanks for the recommendation, I will look it up on your shelves. I used to enjoy reading the Stern's articles in Gourmet ( I think that's where I read them!).

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • LeeLee

    LeeLee says

    I love Lambchop.
    My favorite cookbooks tell a story about the author, a place, or are from one of my favorite fiction series (Narnia, Nero Wolfe, Lord Peter). Otherwise I like lots of pictures and good solid recipes. I read every cookbook that comes into my house cover to cover.
    Our book shopping habits are the same. I do buy new books of an author I know I love, but I want to read much more than they write and I can't afford to experiment on unknown authors. I love non-fiction as well, but can get lost in a fiction which is written excellently. Hope you will be my friend, because I want to browse your shelves, but don't have time for that right now.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • JrSonnen

    JrSonnen says

    Hedda Hopper! I didn't think anyone else would have her. Nice to "meet" you.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Amanda

    Amanda says

    Welcome fellow Seattleite! I have stacks of books from the last Friends of the Library sale just waiting to find a home on my shelves (literally & virtually). It's quite a guilty pleasure to get 25 books (many leatherbound & over 100 years old) for $25 *gleeful grin* What good nonfiction have you read recently?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Tembi

    Tembi says

    Oh goodness, Mandie books were all the rage when I was in elementary school! I got my first Mandie book when I was 7 and collected them through Jr. High. Just a month or two ago, I bought the last dozen or so (after a 15 year hiatus) to finish off the series. I doubt I'll ever have time to read my recent acquisitions, but that's why God invented nieces!

    What are you writing now? Are you published?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Tembi

    Tembi says

    I'm guessing htat NaNoWriMo is not a children's sing-along? :0)

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • theoretical k

    theoretical k says

    This will be my second as well, I did finish last year. Actually rushing to finish editing a second draft before November one.

    I'm absolutely obsessed with poker, I'll admit. I play a couple times a week, two big house games.

    Well, last year's book turned out to be of the literary genre, this year I have a literary/suspense/fantasy (a lil' of that.) This one should be interesting. Fun to write, I hope.

    What are you planning for this time?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • theoretical k

    theoretical k says

    I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year, as well!

    Is this your first?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )


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