Algonquin Books were generous enough to send me a copy of The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elizabeth Tova Bailey, a bedridden observer of nature who is given a snail in a pot of violets and decides to keep it as a pet. The illness that Bailey experiences makes it extremely difficult for [...]
Category Archives: Book Reviews
Book Review and Giveaway: The Vegetable Gardener’s Book of Building Projects
April 18, 2010 – 3:26 pm
It’s the time of year (at least in Minnesota anyway) when the gardeners are all in limbo. The cold crops can go into the ground but nothing else until May 15th! What do we do while we wait? We need something to make the time go by faster- something that has to do with gardening [...]
Book Review: Spoon Fed by Kim Severson
April 7, 2010 – 9:33 pm
In some ways, the title Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life is misleading. When I first came across the book on Amazon, I didn’t know who Kim Severson was (I’m not really a foodie and I don’t regularly read The New York Times) so I pictured the author to be someone who had [...]
Book Review and Giveaway: Don’t Throw it, Grow it!
April 5, 2010 – 9:19 am
I think I’ve mentioned before that I really like finding and supporting smaller publishers. You have to respect what they do. By publishing lesser known writers, they are providing us with a true cross-section of what our world is like. More opinions= a freer society in my opinion. I came across Storey Publishing a few [...]
Book Review: Grow Great Grub
March 30, 2010 – 6:27 pm
I ordered a couple of new gardening books this year as I usually do every year. It seems like I am usually disappointed with the books I’ve received in the past because the books never really say anything new or maybe it’s just that the pictures aren’t as good as they should be. Mostly it’s [...]
