Frank McGeough
Just a great book of wonderful vegetable and pasta recipes. Well organized (by main vegetable ingredient) and well-indexed. The recipes are delicious, clear and easy to follow. There are definitely things in there that I'm not going to try (potato and pasta? no thanks) but everything that i have tried has been very good.
worthwhile. Some of the examples are somewhat dated and need to be reworked in order to run. Most of the concepts reviewed are still relevant.
OK. But probably just as good is the online documentation. Some people just prefer having a book in their hand and for those folks its worthwhile getting for an intro to Vagrant.
winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Really good short stories by a Georgia author (born in Brunswick and attended Georgia State).
Not bad. A general introduction to the various techniques used to backup and restore a Postgres database.
I found the information on the importance of chronic low mood interesting and worth thinking about. The evolutionary importance of mood was also an interesting perspective. The author's own experience with very severe depression formed the basis of his research. Worth reading if you have suffered from depression or have a loved one who does.
Amazingly uninteresting story of two guy's self-promotion and how successful they've been getting people to listen to them.
Easy to read and good introduction to Minitest with a roadmap for understanding more advanced features.
Very entertaining and droll western about two brothers who are hired killers in the old West.
First novel. An Amazon recommendation for June 2011. Total amnesia combined with inability to form new memories are the plot devices. The main character wakes up every day wondering where she is and what is going on. By the end of the day she realizes that everything that she's experienced that day will be forgotten in the morning. Who should she trust and why? Been covered multiple times but that doesn't mean this one isn't good. Very well done. Very enjoyable.
Its not a genre I've read much of. Its a well-written bloody book about three days of war. I would think it'd be an excellent one in this genre. Don't think its for me though.
Only for the most die-hard Henry Miller fans. Even they may stare at the ceiling wondering why they ever bothered picking this book up. Spoiler: He really really likes Blaise Cendrars. Sheesh.
A definite page turner and good start to a series. A computer running a simulation for military training has come unglued from its mooring. The simulation is the Demi-Monde - a world within which dupes (duplicates of real people from history) battle against each other for supremacy. The president's daughter is trapped inside the simulation and if she dies in the simulation then she dies in real life. An unlikely heroine is found to go into the simulation to save her. Its all ridiculous and over the top but its fun and decently told.
The story line is a bit tangled and the plot isn't necessarily sorted out by the end but the writing is wonderful.
funny. Dead detective (and magician) attempts to track down who killed him in Chicago. Is it silly? Don't ask that. Just read it.
I forget where I got the recommendation for this book but I'm glad I read it. A Southern murder mystery that seemed to really capture the feel of rural Mississippi. Well written, well paced, and the two main characters are interesting.
I thought this book started a bit slow but it was definitely fun to read. Time traveling historians are struggling to correct an incongruity because someone has done something and its disturbed the timeline of history. The historians interact with characters from Victorian England and struggle to maintain proper manners while also struggling to ensure the world doesn't get horribly screwed up because of someone's inadvertent actions. Its humorous and well-written.
Decent science-based thriller that imagines a world with local control over production driven by a pop up display to an alternate internet run like a massive online role playing game.
Jo Nesbo's latest novel available for Kindle. Featuring the alcoholic and nearly ruined (from the previous book) Harry Hole. There's a few earlier works that aren't available yet in English but with the success of “The Snowman” I suspect that won't be true for long. Good writer. Fast paced interesting detective fiction with a flawed but dogged detective at the center of the action. Reminiscent of Raymond Chandler and other early American detective novelists.
