Paul Auster: The Book of Illusions: A Novel
Going to get a copy.. loved his "New York Trilogy"... (***)
J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
Order a copy here.. well, I've pre-ordered a copy.. final book, hard to believe this series and Harry Potter are coming to an end.. (*****)
Neil Gaiman: Fragile Things
Just started this one.. dreams and stories, ah ha...
Dean Koontz: The Husband
New Koontz thriller.. just got a copy from the library to have a "summer read"...
Bill Clinton: My Life
The book of the year, from hype to Presidential lives and politics and yes, scandals.. a must-read... (****)
Beth L. Bailey: From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America
Teenagers now and then.. worth a look... (***)
Shelley E. Taylor: The Tending Instinct: Women, Men, and the Biology of Relationships
Paper version of an intriguing book on nurturing, "Taylor, a psychology professor at UCLA, makes the claim that 'we are fundamentally a nurturant species,' biologically programmed to 'tend and befriend' one another." -Publisher's Weekly (***)
Ron Smith: The Ballpark Book : A journey Through the Fields of Baseball Magic
Recommended summer America's game reading.. see the blog item on this as well for more details... (*****)
David B. Wexler: When Good Men Behave Badly: Change Your Behavior, Change Your Relationship
"A book written especially for men that provides real tools for men who have trouble dealing with the emotional demands of relationships and those affected by them. Men learn how to curb destructive behaviors and build deep, meaningful relationships. Refers to recent research about the male brain." -from the publisher... (****)
John Gray: Mars and Venus on a Date: A Guide for Navigating the 5 Stages of Dating to Create a Loving & Lasting Relationship
Yes, old.. but the title caught my eye.. so, dating to loving and lasting relationship.. maybe something here, maybe.. just starting to read it now, from the library...
Helen Fisher: Why We Love
Good book review in NY Times.. about her research into romantic love, chemistry, and the physical side of emotional responses to love and emotions... (***)
Michael Crichton: Prey
Nanotechnology runs wild, relationship of programmer husband and scientist wife explored, good reading so far.. (****)
Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon
A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson's most accomplished and affecting work to date, CRYPTONOMICON is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow. It is a work of great art, thought, and creative daring... --Amazon description (*****)
Ruth Reichl: Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
Ruth Reichl's first book, the autobiographical Tender at the Bone, disarmed readers with its droll candor. The former restaurant critic of The New York Times and editor in chief of Gourmet magazine told great stories about growing up and loving food. [This book] begins where the first book ended, tracing Reichl's evolution from chef to food writer while detailing the dissolution of her first marriage, the start of a second, and motherhood at the age of 40. The book also limns a sensual journey, Reichl's awakening to the pleasures of sex as well as food, and also to love. --from Amazon.com review (***)
Ruth Reichl: Tender at the Bone : Growing Up at the Table
Recommended by a friend, former NY Times restaurant critic, memoir.. a new appreciation of the pleasures of the table... (****)
Judith Sills: The Comfort Trap (or, What If You're Riding a Dead Horse?)
Recommended by a friend, sounds interesting, and some excerpts online at her Web site, see here...
Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife
The love story of Henry and Claire whose lives are punctuated by Henry's disappearance to different points in time--sometimes even back to visit Claire as a young woman. When Henry meets Claire, he is twenty-eight, and she is twenty. He's a hip, handsome librarian; she is an art student with Botticelli hair. Henry has never met Claire before; Claire has known Henry since she was six...
Tim O'Brien: July, July: A Novel
"At the 30th reunion of Minnesota's Darton Hall College class of 1969, ten old friends join their classmates for a July weekend of dancing, drinking, flirting, reminiscing, regretting. ...[jacket copy] Good so far, from National Book Award winning writer of "Going After Cacciato"... (****)
Ethan Watters: Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment
Interesting take on social groups, "urban tribes," friends who are not married banding together.. see also the post on the blog on this topic... (***)
Susanna Moore: In the Cut: A Novel
Meg Ryan's new movie role.. erotic thriller of NY teacher of writing and murders and some great characters.. her writing is gemlike and a pleasure.. recommended... (*****)
Nancy Pearl: Book Lust
Librarian from Seattle, infamous now for the "action figure" controversy, has a book out. I'll have to take a look....
Jonathan Franzen: How to Be Alone: Essays
From Amazon: " 'Why Bother' is an essay arguing that our current cultural milieu of speed, shallowness, hedonism, and information-without-wisdom doesn't even allow us to see that we are losing our relationship to solitude." Recommended...
Eric Darton: Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York City's World Trade Center
And this was the second book I read, trying to make some small sense of the changes that happened, and what that *place* was, really.. highly recommended... (*****)
Angus Kress Gillespie: Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center
This was the first book I read after the attacks, and still one of the most memorable. It was the only thing in our Library's collection at the time about the World Trade Center.. re-issued after 9/11/01.. (*****)
Richard Schickel: Woody Allen: A Life in Film
Just out, Sept 5, 2003.. more from the interview with Schickel, that wasn't included in the documentary.. see the article in the Film category on the documentary as shown on TCM... (*****)
Cecile Lamalle: Glutton for Punishment
A culinary mystery.. don't ask me why, but I'm reading these as I find them.. fun, and food a part of the mystery tale.. a great opening epigraph: "We think our castles of sand are the ramparts of the universe." --John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (****)
Cathi Hanauer: The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex,
Title of the year award? Not reading it yet, comes out in Nov, 2003.. a sleeper book to watch for!
Gina Cascone: Life al Dente: Laughter and Love in an Italian-American Family
Earlier book was "Pagan Babies," and this one sounds just as good.. ba-da bing! the reviews are saying good things, and before there was the Sopranos, there was Gina writing about Italian-Americans in New Jersey... (****)
Richard K. Morgan: Altered Carbon
New hot S-F title to check out.. Joel Silver ("The Matrix") has purchased the film rights..
Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair
Meet Thursday Next, hard-boiled detective, in a comic time travel tale c. England 1985.. just getting into it.. first in a series, third one just out in UK.. (****)
Neil Gaiman: American Gods: A Novel
Really fine mythological American tale.. captivating from page 1.. Reading it slow, which is a good sign.. (*****)
David Schickler: Kissing in Manhattan
Stories, intertwined, from a Manhattan apartment building.. "The Smoker" is great, still reading through the collection.. (****)
Chris Sherman: The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See
Re-reading this one, in prep for a forthcoming article to be published in "American Libraries".. Chris Sherman and Gary Price do a fabulous job.. (*****)
Jim Mullen: It Takes a Village Idiot : Complicating the Simple Life
Just starting this one.. saw it noted on jessamyn's site first.. as one writer noted, "Imagine 'A Year in Provence' written by Dennis Miller." So far, funny stuff.. (***)
Terence Gorski: GETTING LOVE RIGHT : LEARNING THE CHOICES OF HEALTHY INTIMACY
This is a winner.. self-help from recovery counselor, on healthy intimacy, building a healthy relationship, and learning to change.. A-plus... (*****)
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I am looking for a Buffet for the floradita Hemingway dining room collection. Any ideas?
Thanks
Posted by: Charles Collins | Wednesday, March 23, 2005 at 08:21 AM
iI'm looking for a baR STOOL DESIGNED AS A FIGHTING CHAIR FOR A BOAT,DESIGNED AS HEMINGWAYS FIGHTING CHAIR.,
Posted by: beckysue prince | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at 07:51 AM
Searching for a limited edition ernest hemingway glass end table. It has a heavy glass top with a marlin on a weather dial in the middle. Base is wood.Please email me if you know of anywhere I can find this.
Thanks
Posted by: A Scott | Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 01:18 PM
I'm looking for the hemingway collection which has the woven looking sleigh type bed. Do you know what the collection is called? I would like to find some extra pieces to go with what I already have.
Posted by: Ellen Patten | Monday, February 26, 2007 at 12:28 PM
I am looking for pictures of Ernest Hemingway Santiago Bedroom Collection. If you have any, please email them to me. Thanks,
Posted by: Venice J. | Thursday, June 07, 2007 at 11:54 AM
Hello,
In response to Beckysue Price.
Interesting question. The Hemingway fighting chair bar stool was originally designed and created by Kirk Heidenreich of Paradox Designs in Charleston, SC (843-813-6138). Dont try to google him because he works all word of mouth and he has done pretty well by it. A number of local clients and restaurants can attest to the quality of his work. He's been doing custom work for close to 10 years now. The original version of the chair was designed in the late 90's and had a nice little brass plaque on the back with the name "Old Rummy" Furniture/ Chair Company or something to that effect.
Through some clever schmoozing, the design idea was licensed to TV (a first ever for the company or so they said). The original design was dumb'ed down a fair amount as the original was too tough to manufacture at a profit. The original design is of higher quality and will be more comfortable than the TV version.
Last time I checked, he still has all the jigs for that chair in the shop and get started just about anytime although you'll have to check with his backlog.
Be sure to tell Kirk that you saw this post and reference my name.
Kind Regards,
Greg Arifian
Posted by: greg | Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 10:48 PM
Hello,
In response to Beckysue Price.
Interesting question. The Hemingway fighting chair bar stool was originally designed and created by Kirk Heidenreich of Paradox Designs in Charleston, SC (843-813-6138). Dont try to google him because he works all word of mouth and he has done pretty well by it. A number of local clients and restaurants can attest to the quality of his work. He's been doing custom work for close to 10 years now. The original version of the chair was designed in the late 90's and had a nice little brass plaque on the back with the name "Old Rummy" Furniture/ Chair Company or something to that effect.
Through some clever schmoozing, the design idea was licensed to TV (a first ever for the company or so they said). The original design was dumb'ed down a fair amount as the original was too tough to manufacture at a profit. The original design is of higher quality and will be more comfortable than the TV version.
Last time I checked, he still has all the jigs for that chair in the shop and get started just about anytime although you'll have to check with his backlog.
Be sure to tell Kirk that you saw this post and reference my name.
Kind Regards,
Greg Arifian
Posted by: greg | Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 10:49 PM
Looking for a glass end table with a heavy glass top and a marlin on a weather dial in the middle, and the base is wood.
Posted by: Joe Morgan | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 03:37 PM
Have some funiture from the collection of Ernest Hemingway,Kilimangaro is the name,if you are still interested.
Posted by: Pat Lanel | Friday, April 25, 2008 at 09:24 AM
I have a Ernest Hemingway Swordfish sculpture pedestal end table, Limited edition -interested?
Posted by: Beverly J. Kay | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 10:02 AM