Archive for May, 2007
Tilton’s Reading Challenge
LaSalle Bank partners with Tilton Elementary School. We’ve helped them set up a computer lab, done career days, mentor students, a lot of things to try to help the students. One thing LaSalle does is the annual Reading Challenge.
We ask the students to read, and report on, a number of books each year. [...]
May 22nd, 2007 by alephnaught
American Gods
Title: American Gods
Author: Neil Gaiman
Mass Market Paperback: 624 pages
Publisher: HarperTorch (April 30, 2002)
ISBN-10: 0380789035
ISBN-13: 78-0380789030
I saw a used copy of this in a bookstore just before leaving on vacation and figured I’d give it a try. I loved his Sandman series of graphic novels and hoped that he might write a good traditional novel.
He [...]
May 14th, 2007 by alephnaught
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Title: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Author: Anthony Bourdain
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial; Updated edition (January 9, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0060899220
ISBN-13: 978-0060899226
Aviva and I got turned on to Anthony Bourdain from his Travel Channel television show, “No Reservations.” He’s irreverent and willing to try almost anything. This book is very much like that….
It was [...]
May 6th, 2007 by alephnaught
A History of Orgies (Prion Lost Treasures)
Title: A History of Orgies (Prion Lost Treasures)
Author: Burgo Partridge
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Prion; New Ed edition (August2002)
ISBN-10: 1853754919
ISBN-13: 978-1853754913
This book was a fun read. I read it over a couple of months.
A History of Orgies discusses the history of orgies including a number of descriptive examples. Unfortunately, there’s also moralizing and some amount of patronizing, [...]
May 5th, 2007 by alephnaught
An interesting article on bicycles
An article from the Wall Street Journal on how
The Netherlands and Denmark (and others) are using bicycles to reduce
polution.
English
May 26th, 2007 by alephnaught