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GourmetReader

GourmetReader

  • Kalamazoo, MI, USA
  • member since February 25 2007

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  • Hank Rosso's Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising (Jossey Bass Nonprofit & Public Management Series)
    • Rated 3 stars

    Hank Rosso is the founder of The Fund Raising School at Indiana University and there is quite a lot of information in this book that makes it worthwhile. It's not something you'll read cover to cover, but look through for information as you need it, or read different parts of it at different times. Even if you're an experienced fundraiser, I think you'll find some useful bits.

    GourmetReader wrote this review Thursday, November 8 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader
    • Rated 5 stars

    I think everyone needs to know their history and there was a great historical perspective in the beginning of TPD. It's definitely worth reading and buying. It's worth tracking down since I think it's out of print. If you are a butch or a femme, there is something here for you.

    GourmetReader wrote this review Thursday, November 8 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Femme Mystique
    • Rated 5 stars

    Let me begin with, I love Leslea Newman. I enjoyed this book and I bought copies for others as well. It's out of print now and I wish I still had one - I'll have to try to get one on a used bookstore site, I guess. It's all the different ways of being femme and what that means to people.

    GourmetReader wrote this review Thursday, November 8 2007. ( reply | permalink )
    • Rated 4 stars

    This was my very first cookbook. It wasn't so much that I hated to cook as I had no idea how to cook. I got this, I tried a few things and before I knew it, I was a "good cook who liked to."

    GourmetReader wrote this review Thursday, November 8 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Home Comforts : The Art and Science of Keeping House
    • Rated 5 stars

    I got this book when it first came out and it has been very useful over the years. I collect antique books of this nature, so it was cool to find a modern one that was actually interesting to read and had things that I might use.

    GourmetReader wrote this review Thursday, November 8 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Middlesex: A Novel
    • Rated 5 stars

    This is one of those books that I had to try twice before I could read it. Once I did, I loved it. Good character development.

    GourmetReader wrote this review Thursday, November 8 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Me Talk Pretty One Day
    • Rated 3 stars

    I thought this was just okay. I didn't think it nearly as funny as my sister did.

    GourmetReader wrote this review Thursday, November 8 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
    • Rated 4 stars

    It took me a while to get into this book but once I did, I really enjoyed it. I thought that it was interesting in that I know little about Japanese culture, so this was a small insight.

    GourmetReader wrote this review Thursday, November 8 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • She's Come Undone
    • Rated 2 stars

    The first time I read this, I remembered liking it, so I read it again. This time, I didn't like it so much. I remember thinking that this character didn't like women that much. She certainly didn't like how they *smelled.* She talked about that a fair amount. She didn't like men all that much either. Overall, I thought it wasn't well done. I get that she was sad and depressed but the book seemed to wallow in it.

    GourmetReader wrote this review Thursday, November 8 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Bastard Out of Carolina
    • Rated 4 stars

    I think this isn't a book about Southerners so much as about poverty and class issues. It just so happens that Allison is in South Carolina. This book touched me so deeply that when I went to a book signing of hers, I couldn't think of one single intelligent thing to say. I cried instead. Cried at the reading, too. There were a couple of scenes that I could have written. I only read it once, though, as much as I appreciated it. I just couldn't read it again.

    GourmetReader wrote this review Thursday, November 8 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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