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Stephen’s 2024 Year in Books
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Stephen E. Moore
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection:
"After working for the American Lung Association as it changed its name from Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association and was closing the TB Sanitorium in Spokane, I found this book very disturbing to learn how many still suffer from TB! This "
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| I bought this book because of my interest in cryptology and not because of any interest in egghead mathematics or how computers work. Turing was a genius who excelled in all three areas so it was reasonable to be required to plough through the furrow ...more | |
"A charming description of the author’s love affair with his cabin in the woods. The book doesn’t really go anywhere, but it’s hard to resist the enthusiasm of the author as he and his friends go about fixing up a decaying cabin in the mountains east "
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"I read this in my twenties (say, 1974) and it was enlightening to read it again at age 72. I was struck once again by how hard it is to become your true self, and how necessary it is.
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"I love reading books about kitchens and foods, and I love reading recovery memoirs. I even have a soft spot for celebrity gossip, so I was excited to read this book by a recovering woman, who cooks and worked for both Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdai"
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What Baseball Means to Me - A Celebration of Our National Pastime
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Because I love you, I've added a photo of the cover of this book to Goodreads.
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| Lee Cart is an interesting character. She and her husband, Jeffrey, live in a post-and-beam house that they designed and built themselves in central Maine. They are off the grid, using solar panels and batteries for electrical power. She cooks and wr ...more | |
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| So what's so hard about making lasagna that it needs an entire cookbook to talk about? You get a box of dried lasagna noodles (with the flouncy edges) and boil them up. You fry some ground beef in a pan and add a couple of jars of prepared spaghetti ...more | |
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
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“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”
― Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
― Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!”
― Three Men in a Boat
― Three Men in a Boat
“And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.”
― Elmer Gantry
― Elmer Gantry
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Aug 31, 2011 09:14PM
Oh, dear. We have 0% coincidence of reading tastes. Well, opposites attract. And that's why Baskin and Robbins makes so many different flavours.
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"Your tastes are 0% similar for the books you both rated." :(
