The Lacuna: A Novel is a page-turner worth reading and re-reading. Barbara Kingsolver’s ability to weave the predictive elements into the plot is so subtle, that I’m compelled to find out what happens next. I pick up more details on every read-through. It’s a lot like traveling that perfect cross-country ski hill. After the first [...]
This is a celebration of the human spirit. A discarded physics book turns up in a third-world library enabling a boy too poor to attend school to bring electricity to his home, and eventually his village.
The best foraging book I’ve found yet, all due respects to Brill and Thayer.
I started different book lists and realized I’d have to sort and maintain several documents.
What follows is an ongoing list of my favorites since childhood. Sometimes I will review or comment on a book.
If it’s on this list, I love it every time I read it.
As I think of a book I love and haven’t read in a while, I’ll add the title to this general list. I may sort by genre in time, but for now, it’s everything I read that’s worth sharing.
To be accurate, wild food cookbooks are listed in the introduction to my Wild Food Recipes.
Happy Reading.
The only book I’ve ever seen showing right-handed and left-handed knot-tying orientation.
Giving is not about shopping. Here are some truly valuable ways to gift those you love.
Another way to reduce my carbon footprint by getting paid to buy online what I used to buy in retail stores.
Foraging, as well as mycology, expands this writer’s vocabulary.
Ever since I bought Gary Lincoff’s National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms , I’ve been looking for an opportunity to meet him. I got my chance last night.
I came home from yesterday’s COMA walk loaded down with new mushrooms to sample. I actually learned about milky cap (lactarius) mushrooms. I spent the rest of the day photographing them, looking them up in my reference sources and doing what I could to imprint this new knowledge. I just cooked the lactarius (hygrophoroides, I [...]
