@coluber2001,
My favorite is Cellini's Autobiography. It's a good read, even after all these years.
Also, pretty interesting, Vasari's Lives of the Artists.
I liked at the time, Canaday's series on artists (Norton, the publisher)
@ossobuco,
started reading this while I was sitting outside (brrrrrrrrrrrrrr) waiting for the trick or treaters
@ehBeth,
Not reading, but I just bought a small collection of School SCience books from the mid to late 1800's an early 20th century. Several of the books hve "FOXING" damage to the illustrations (illus were mostly separate engravings tht were set into blank pages0. I need to treat the foxing an wonder whether theres DIY method.
I know they use Sodium borate in the pro shops but I have no idea in what fashion.
These books are gems bout how e saw the world in the 1800's USA and Canda (one book is printed in Mon REEAL.) and I suppose it is before confederation. (1857)
i'm starting reading Casual Vacancy. i'm not spoiling it, but it's a good book.
Two recent books, I've just bought from Amazon and which I am now reading are:
1. The Meaning of Human Existence by E.O. Wilson(2014)
2 Tennessee Williams Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, A Biography
By John Lahr (2014)
@Lustig Andrei,
Lustig Andrei wrote:
Harty wrote:
i'm starting reading Casual Vacancy. i'm not spoiling it, but it's a good book.
Who's the author?
The Harry Potter series author, J.K. Rowling.
This is a good place to post a list of "food" books that I found. I lost one in translation. Not all come to mind when thinking about food fiction but it is interesting.
the Epicure’s Lament, Kate Christensen
The Dinner, Herman Koch
Pow!, Mo Yan
The Book of Salt, Monique Truong
The Debt to Pleasure, John Lanchester
Ulysses, James Joyce
Cinnamon and Gunpowder, Eli Brown
John Saturnall’s Feast, Lawrence Norfolk
Redwall, Brian Jacques
The Belly of Paris, Emile Zola
Chocolat, Joanne Harris
The Flounder, Günter Grass
Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki
The Devil’s Larder, Jim Crace
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, Fannie Flagg
Farmer Boy, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Heartburn, Nora Ephron
Cooking With Fernet Branca, James Hamilton-Paterson
The Edible Woman, Margaret Atwood
Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto
Edible Stories, Mark Kurlansky
The Hundred-Foot Journey, Richard C. Morais
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
The Food of Love, Anthony Capella
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
Babette’s Feast, Isak Dinesen
White Truffles in Winter, N.M. Kelby
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
Saturday, Ian McEwan
Gourmet Rhapsody, Muriel Barbery
The Last Chinese Chef, Nicole Mones
La Cucina, Lily Prior
The Food Chain, Geoff Nicholson
Bone in the Throat, Anthony Bourdain
The Cookbook Collector, Allegra Goodman
The Lives of Notorious Cooks, Brendan Connell
The School of Essential Ingredients, Erica Bauermeister
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Goodbye, Columbus, Philip Roth
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Pomegranate Soup, Marsha Mehran
Appetite, Philip Kazan
The Chef’s Apprentice, Elle Newmark
Crescent, Diana Abu-Jaber
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
Hunger, Jane Ward
@izzythepush,
I won an uncorrected, prepublification copy of Near Enemy by Adam Sternbergh. A sci-fi tinged crime thriller that takes place in the near distant future of NYC a couple of years after a series of terrorist attacks on the city that pretty much empty out more then half its population. It's on schedule to be published sometime around January 2015.
Since I finished that book, I decided to tackle the author's first book which also is centered around his antiheroic protagonist, Spademan, called Shovel Ready.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. Wonderful characters. Wonderful mood.
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@blueveinedthrobber,
Is there a happy ending Bear?
Zealot by Reza Aslan. He sounded fascinating when he talked to Jon Stewart. When the book came out in paperback, I bought it. Great literary stylist with an interesting view on Jesus of Nazareth.
I goodwill shopped two books this week:
Julia Alvarez, iyo
T.C. Boyle, Friend of the Earth
I've read and liked both of them before. Haven't started reading yet, other things to read and do.
@edgarblythe,
Only one I've read was Tortilla Curtain..
but I've read about him for a million years.
@ossobuco,
That is my favorite by him. I have to admit that I only like some of his writing, after that.
I put it to the give pile fairly recently, which of course now I regret, re myself. But maybe someone else will get it and like it.
