Hilary Spurling is a wonderful writer.A Brit that writes about people few of us would follow like Matiisse, Paul Scott, Ivy Compton-Burnett and Therese Humbert.People listen, Spurling is very, very good, read her works.That brings us to her latest, PEARL BUCK IN CHINA: Journey to the Good Earth.This is a marvelous marvelous book. Spurling give [...]
2009 will for sure be a THRILLER year with this new OFFICIAL calendar! It offers some amazing remastered Michael Jackson art – as well as hard-to-find photos from the Thriller era printed on high quality paper. Fans of the King of Pop will forget they are looking for a date on this calendar, because the [...]
Meg Murray was one of my best friends growing up.She was imperfect, and loving, and confused, and wickedly smart, and astonishingly dense, and absolutely could not see the beauty of herself (both inside and outside).As a young girl who was also struggling with these things, I found solace and comfort in immersing myself into books [...]
I knew they would never be a sequel to Alan Moore’s classic comic series “The Watchmen” (and I wish Frank Miller had let well enough alone with “The Dark Knight Returns”), but certainly “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” is a kindred spirit in key regards.If the Watchmen were supposed to be superheroes that we recognized, [...]
This is arguably better than the missing manual to Photoshop CS5.The author has a clear writing style and the illustrations are first rate so that you can actually see the modifications he is discussing.This book also includes a DVD with movies showing some of the new features of CS5 including content aware fill and puppet [...]
Ok, I admit it I am on a diet. And yes, it is even The South Beach Diet. I have lost 75 Lbs in the first year and I`ve been on it over 2 years! But even if I was not on South Beach I’d recommend this new cookbook because I am a busy gal. [...]