Simple French Food, Richard Olney
Alice Waters keeps mentioning throughout her books that she always turns to Olney, and specifically to this book, for inspiration. Sit down with a bottle of wine, some bread, and cheese and enjoy. Opnionated, but lots of good info.
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Time, Love, Memory Jonathan Weiner
Incredibly well-written; would appeal to anyone who's spent time in labs or with scientists. Bonus trivia if you really dig Drosophilia or early genetics.
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The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
Read these! Now! All comments from the earlier two still stand. I continue to be impressed by the standard of writing and language that Pullman upholds in these books -- and he makes them fascinating, to boot!
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Expendable, James Alan Gardner
Fairly predictable but engagingly written scifi about a future society where misfits are given proper education and made the explorers.
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Promised Land, Connie Willis & Cynthia Felice
Cute sci-fi with a huge scarab-beetle-like pet. A little sappy, but if you can get past it, candy.
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Off the Eaten Path, Bob Blumer
There's some fun stuff in here, but someone's gone overboard with the photoshop games on the design. Probably not as useful a cookbook as the first two (The Surreal Gourmet and The Surreal Gourmet Entertains), but certainly fun.
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Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Sweet and sad love story, written impeccably.
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A Hunger in the Soul, Mike Resnick
Terrible. Stick with Kirinyaga. Everything about this book disappointed me, from the characters to the storyline.
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Excession, Iain M. Banks
I didn't really read this in October; i bought another copy of the book and realized that i had read it this summer. I'm having difficulty finding more Banks material; it all seems to be imports that don't make it back to used-bookstores.
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