What was your favorite non-fiction book ?
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Comments (15)without a doubt---LOUISE ESTES. Everything I want in a HT. Good looking bush from top to bottom. Beautiful foliage, long cutting stems, one of the most beautiful blooms I have ever seen and it smells great. I have never seen a picture of this rose that does it any justice. You have to see it in person to understand what I mean. Now it gets tough. #2 would be MOONSTONE---Some good shots on HMF. #3 is BRINESSA---Beautiful smoky pink blooms on a good bush. Foliage like leather. Getting a little tough to find now aday....See MoreYour Favorite Can't Wait To See What Happens Next Books
Comments (8)Karen I haven't heard of her. I tend to read more 'thrillers' and I admit I get most of my recommendations from another forum that I participate in that is just for Mysteries & Thrillers. Authors such as Brian Haig and Steven Hartov and Thomas Cook...I would have to refer back to my Book Log but I have enjoyed all those recommendations. I use The Fantasic Fiction web site or "Stop Your Killing Me" for the lists of titles by the authors in the order written which I prefer when the author has a recurring main character. Pat...See MoreWhat, in your opinion, is the WORST book? (non-fiction)
Comments (42)ColorMe, the systems have been funky lately. Interestingly enough, the movement of tectonic plates was embraced earliest by some very strange people of the Von Daniken ilk (but a decade earlier.) I read all those books and enjoyed them mainly because they gave me permission to think about things in a new way. Most of what I read I didn't believe or agree with, but for some reason the plate tectonics stuff held. So, by reading some incredibly stupid book probably about the hollow earth, I learned enough about plate tectonics to dazzle a geologist with my learning a decade or so later. Go figure. Of course I've also learned enough stuff that is dead wrong to cure anyone's bedazzlement. My vote for the worst non-ficion would be the biography Sara & Gerald, of her parents Sara and Gerald Murphy by daughter Honoria Donnelly. These two incredibly interesting and exciting characters (according to two biographies Living Well is the Best Revenge by Calvin Tomkins and Everyone Was So Young by Amanda Vail) gave birth to a daughter who made them sound dull as ditch water....See MoreYour Favorite Books of 2006
Comments (25)2006 was an unusually rich book year for me. Most years I am lucky to find one or two outstanding reading experiences, and perhaps half a dozen more that come close. It is amazing how many books I read to get those few peak experiences. Must be an addict, I suppose. Here were the highlights of 2006, the books I could not put down, and hated to have end. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Suceed by Jared M. Diamond The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gournet Nation by David Kamp The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan Peace Like a River by Leif Enger The Stolen Child by Keith Donahue Fingersmith by Sarah Waters The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Inversions by Iain Banks Bear Daughter by Judith Berman King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner Here's hoping that 2007 will be equally abundant! Rosefolly...See Moreskibby (zone 4 Vermont)
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