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Jamie’s Italy
I’ve sworn to never buy another cookbook. As with most good intentions, I’m expecting to break it, but there is one thing in my favour: Cookbooks have become coffeetable fare and I am very, very selective when it comes to the high prices of coffeetable books. Jamie’s Italy is a good example of the coffeetable…
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The Guardian Weekly
You can read The Guardian (British newspaper) online, but I seldom do. During the week I’m lucky if I keep up with the blogs I follow via Google Reader, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and, of course, email. But weekends are different. I make sure I have some time away from the computer — and thinking about…
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Australian Architecture
I picked up a copy of “A Pictorial Guide to Identifying Australian Architecture” a couple of years ago. It seems to have gone out of print. I’m pretty ignorant when it comes to things architectural so I appreciate the easy explanations and the glossary (with pictures) at the back. What makes it so useful for…
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The Concise Oxford English Dictionary
I love this book. That’s all.
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Writing Steampunk by Beth Daniels
Since I am writing steampunk, how could I resist a book titled just that? I stumbled across Writing Steampunk by Beth Daniels while browsing Amazon. It’s difficult for me, a newcomer to Steampunk (although I enjoyed plenty of the books Beth has listed without knowing they were steampunk — such as Fire Rose by Mercedes…