Posted in Books, Memes on 23 November, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Jennifer posted a few days ago on the Book Cover Meme, and I thought I’d play along. The idea is to go to Amazon.com’s advanced search, search on your first name in a book title, and pick the most interesting book cover that’s in the search results.
Since I have a common, biblical, first name, [...]
Posted in Books, Cooking, Food on 29 August, 2007 | No Comments »
This tale of Buford, an avid home cook, working his way around the various stages at celebrity chef Mario Batali’s Babbo kitchen, as well as a few stops in between in Italy, is both engaging and engrossing.
It all started when Batali met Buford at a party the latter was hosting. One thing led to another, [...]
Posted in Birding, Books, Nature on 29 August, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This lengthy tome (nearly 700 large-sized paperback pages), subtitled “Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction,” was recommended by Joe Morlan, who taught an Introduction to Field Ornithology class I took earlier this year, as the best science/nature book he’s ever read, and, although I am not extremely well-read in that genre, I must agree!
Quammen [...]
Posted in Books on 30 June, 2007 | No Comments »
This aptly-titled novel is primarily a dual story, one about Jemubhai, a retired judge and his granddaughter Sai, orphaned, convent-schooled, and now living with her grandfather in a decrepit old mansion, the other about the judge’s cook (who remains nameless until the very last page) and his son Biju, an illegal immigrant working in New [...]
Posted in Books, Yoga on 26 June, 2007 | No Comments »
This book provides a gentle introduction to yogic philosophy, and the non-pose aspects of yoga (the series of poses known commonly as “yoga” are but one of the eight limbs of yoga). Lasater, a yoga instructor in San Francisco, divides the book into three parts.
Part one deals with the internal (spritual seeking, discipline, letting go, [...]
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