Posted in History, Non-Fiction, Women, tagged Elizabeth Bentley on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I found Lauren Kessler’s Clever Girl when I was trolling the stacks at the library. It sounded interesting. And I do like spy stories.
Elizabeth Bentley was the Red Spy Queen as the newspapers called her. She came from an old Connecticut family, was well educated (Vassar), travelled to Europe (apparently she had quite the [...]
Posted in Canadian, History, Non-Fiction, tagged 9/11 books, Newfoundland, The Day the World Came to Town on July 10, 2008 | No Comments »
I don’t normally read books about September 11th. In fact I usually try avoid them at all costs. But Jim DeFede’s The Day the World Came to Town pull at me. I had known that a heck of a lot of planes got grounded in Canada that day. And I knew that a lot [...]
Posted in History, Non-Fiction, Women, tagged food-lit, Laura Shapiro, Something from the Oven on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I finally finished Laura Shapiro’s Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America. It feels like it took me forever. I was reading it at night before bed but then I went on vacation and didn’t take it with me and I’ve been tired as all heck since we got back and was falling [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction, tagged Best of Food Writing, food-lit, Holly Hughes on July 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I mentioned the Best of Food Writing series a few weeks ago in one of my library posts. Edited by Holly Hughes it’s been around since 2000 and until I picked it up off the library shelf I had never heard of it. But I’m happy I’ve stumbled upon it.
Each year a collection is published [...]
Posted in Authors, Non-Fiction, Women, tagged food-lit, Backstage with Julia, Julia Child, Nancy Verde Barr on July 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve made no secret that I love food-lit. Perhaps someday when I’m feeling ambitious (read “bored” or “procrastinating” 
I’ll add a food-lit category here. I’ve certainly read enough.
I don’t know many people who don’t like Julia Child. I have, unfortunately, only vague memories of watching her television show on weekday mornings when I was a [...]
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, tagged farmer's markets, farming, flower farm on June 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
You know those stories you hear of where someone just picks up and does a complete lifestyle change on a wing and a prayer? This is one of those stories.
Kimberley Schaye and Christopher Losee where living in Brooklyn when one day someone planted an idea in Chris’s ear and a wildflower bouquet on their kitchen [...]
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, Recommend, must read, tagged Animal Vegetable Mineral, gardening, local food, locavores, slow food on June 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral has been sitting on my shelf for about a year. I remember I bought at the Annex Book City in Toronto on my way to meet some friend’s a Pauper’s Pub for pints. I was running early (TTC either had me places 20 minutes early or 10 minutes late - I never [...]
Posted in History, Non-Fiction, Women on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was over at a friend’s place a few months ago and raided her study. I came out with a handful of non-fiction titles but alas this is the only one I’ve read (I may try to squeeze in one more over the next two weeks). I read nonfiction much slower than I read fiction [...]
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction, tagged France, French By Heart, travel on April 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have a bit of a thing for books about people who go live in other countries. I’m not sure why except that it seems like such a brave thing to do. Especially if it’s a country where you don’t speak the language. I’d be inclined to say that this might have something to do [...]
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Bookstores, History, Non-Fiction, tagged Lewis Buzbee, Yellow-Lighted Bookshop on April 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been wanting to read Lewis Buzbee’s The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop since before it was published. But my old library didn’t seem to have it. And somehow I never got around to buying it. I just read all the posts written by bloggers who had read it jealously. And then when I was going through my [...]
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