Book Description
The three spunky ladies who so charmed readers in The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love and The Gardens of Covington welcome us back to the small Southern town of Covington, to their quaint white farmhouse with yellow shutters on Cove Road....From the Heart of CovingtonLife lessons abound as housemates Hannah, Grace, Amelia continue to surround themselves with love and hope, meeting each new challenge with equanimity and heart and placing their trust in one another as their friendship strengthens and grows. In helping a dear friend and neighbor cope with illness, the ladies develop a deeper mutual compassion and a true appreciation for the softness of heart and toughness of spirit that join them as women. Amelia, feeling strong and adventurous, takes a momentous trip to New York City to further her burgeoning photography career. Grace, kindhearted as ever, becomes involved with a little girl at the local elementary school who may be having terrible problems at home. Meanwhile, Hannah's daughter, Laura, is involved in a tragic accident that has serious consequences for all concerned.With the same compassion and heart readers have already come to know and love, Joan Medlicott once again reveals how life's journeys and challenges only strengthen our loving commitments to family, friends, and loved ones. It's another inspiring message of courage, self-acceptance, and hope.
Customer Reviews:
Life stays very busy for the ladies with many more events!.......2007-09-29
In this third installment for the Ladies of Covington, the ladies continue their very busy lives when Hannah's daughter Laura has a tragic accident on the boat with her longtime lover Marvin. When a hurricane comes while traveling on the boat, Marvin is killed, and Laura is injured badly especially with a shattered leg. Her only option is to go live with her mother and Grace and Hannah for several weeks while she heals. This is not pleasant at all, as Laura and her mother never really connected on any level at all, and have always fought terribly. Yet at this time Hannah is all Laura has to help her out. And not only is it their broken relationship, but to make matters much worse, Laura is in a deep depression and spiraling downward. All she wants to do is hibernate in her bedroom unless the ladies can find a way to bring her out of her shell, which happens in time.
Hannah has her new business in the gardens, The Preserve, thanks to Maxwell who seems to be falling in love with Hannah as well as having solved the problem of the land being sold there as well. Hannah finds great excitement in her new venture here, and is blooming, (no pun intended), with many different ideas for gardens. Part of Hannah's job is to educate children about nature, and growing things which she does so successfully.
Amelia is deeply involved in her photography, and in fact was asked to go to New York when her gay friend Mike submits several photos of her work to the gallery there.
Mike falls in love with Roger, Grace's son who already has a partner. This obvious interest upsets Roger's lover Charles terribly, and the boat is rocked seriously between them when Roger seemingly goes off with Mike on a trip, but then stands Mike up at the end there.
Grace is having some tough luck in this book when the doctor informs her of her type 2 diabetes. Grace is in denial and pays no attention at all to her doctor until she has an accident one day and is knocked clear off her feet. It is only then she begins to take her diabetes seriously.
Russell and Emily are happily married and are having their first child, a baby girl. Tyler is excited about having a baby sister, but yet apprehensive at the same time that the baby will require all of his parents attention. He and Emily his stepmom have a great close relationship.
Brenda Tate,best friend and Grace's boss as principal of the school is having some very tragic times when her husband Harold falls very ill with lung cancer which has metastized. Harold is suddenly very terminal and the ladies all gather together to round up the help that Brenda will need in the upcoming difficult time.
This was a very very good book, and I look forward to the next installment
Life continues in Covington for Grace, Hannah and Amelia..........2007-09-27
In this third installment for the Ladies of Covington, the ladies continue their very busy lives when Hannah's daughter Laura has a tragic accident on the boat with her longtime lover Marvin. When a hurricane comes while traveling on the boat, Marvin is killed, and Laura is injured badly especially with a shattered leg. Her only option is to go live with her mother and Grace and Hannah for several weeks while she heals. This is not pleasant at all, as Laura and her mother never really connected on any level at all, and have always fought terribly. Yet at this time Hannah is all Laura has to help her out. And not only is it their broken relationship, but to make matters much worse, Laura is in a deep depression and spiraling downward. All she wants to do is hibernate in her bedroom unless the ladies can find a way to bring her out of her shell, which happens in time.
Hannah has her new business in the gardens, The Preserve, thanks to Maxwell who seems to be falling in love with Hannah as well as having solved the problem of the land being sold there as well. Hannah finds great excitement in her new venture here, and is blooming, (no pun intended), with many different ideas for gardens. Part of Hannah's job is to educate children about nature, and growing things which she does so successfully.
Amelia is deeply involved in her photography, and in fact was asked to go to New York when her gay friend Mike submits several photos of her work to the gallery there.
Mike falls in love with Roger, Grace's son who already has a partner. This obvious interest upsets Roger's lover Charles terribly, and the boat is rocked seriously between them when Roger seemingly goes off with Mike on a trip, but then stands Mike up at the end there.
Grace is having some tough luck in this book when the doctor informs her of her type 2 diabetes. Grace is in denial and pays no attention at all to her doctor until she has an accident one day and is knocked clear off her feet. It is only then she begins to take her diabetes seriously.
Russell and Emily are happily married and are having their first child, a baby girl. Tyler is excited about having a baby sister, but yet apprehensive at the same time that the baby will require all of his parents attention. He and Emily his stepmom have a great close relationship.
Brenda Tate,best friend and Grace's boss as principal of the school is having some very tragic times when her husband Harold falls very ill with lung cancer which has metastized. Harold is suddenly very terminal and the ladies all gather together to round up the help that Brenda will need in the upcoming difficult time.
This was a very very good book, and I look forward to the next installment.
The ladies face serious issues.......2007-08-10
The author fills the first part of the book with a breathtaking array of problems including, death, near-death, estrangement of family members, and serious illness. Things definitely improve from there as Hannah begins working on the Gardens of Covington, Amelia pursues her photography and takes on a new volunteer job, and Grace entertains family and friends with her home-cooked meals. There are some loose ends in this book, such as when the family and friends take a trip to a nearby lake which includes their friend Emily, but inexplicably not her husband Russell or her step-son, Tyler. There is a subplot about a little girl that Grace works with in her volunteer job which kind of fizzles and goes nowhere. Although in my opinion this is not the best book of the series, it would probably behoove Covington fans to read this installment in order to understand what is happening to the characters.
A delightfully absorbing read .......2006-03-23
This is one of a series of books by Joan A Medlicott and each and every one of them are delightful. I found this book inspiring; it is about three ladies of a certain age who came together rather by luck than by design. They find new careers, loves and enter into their community with courage, dignity and fortitude.
The story is set in a small North Carolina mountain town and the ladies are, to me, quite unforgettable.
This is a must read for all women and especially for women "over a certain age" I hope Joan A medlicott writes for ever.
A wonderful addition.......2005-08-04
This book in the Covington series is just as great and heartwarming as the others.
Book Description
Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available.
Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accurate mysteries have entertained a devoted following for decades. Set during the T'ang dynasty, they feature Judge Dee, a brilliant and cultured Confucian magistrate disdainful of personal luxury and corruption, who cleverly selects allies to help him navigate the royal courts, politics, and ethnic tensions in imperial China. Robert van Gulik modeled Judge Dee on a magistrate of that name who lived in the seventh century, and he drew on stories and literary conventions of Chinese mystery writing dating back to the Sung dynasty to construct his ingenious plots.
Murder in Canton takes place in the year 680, as Judge Dee, recently promoted to lord chief justice, is sent incognito to Canton to investigate the disappearance of a court censor. With the help of his trusted lieutenants Chiao Tai and Tao Gan, and that of a clever blind girl who collects crickets, Dee solves a complex puzzle of political intrigue and murder through the three separate subplots "the vanished censor," "the Smaragdine dancer," and "the Golden Bell."
An expert on the art and erotica as well as the literature, religion, and politics of China, van Gulik also provides charming illustrations to accompany his engaging and entertaining mysteries.
Customer Reviews:
Disappointing End to an Enjoyable Series.......2005-04-05
Everyone who has read the entire Judge Dee series knows that while the writing is only fair, the settings and characters make all of these books a pleasant read. Unfortunately Murder in Canton, the last book in the Judge Dee series, is a poor way to end the adventures of this Chinese version of Sherlock Holmes.
The mystery itself is somewhat muddled and so uninteresting that I found myself nodding off during parts of the book. I ended up skimming through several parts of the novel and by the end I couldn't even remember who some of the suspects were! I have to say that even though the author basically uses the same plots over and over during this series, this particular book just didn't hold my interest.
Another disappointment was the fact that Ma Joong, one of Judge Dee's assistants, was completely absent from this book. He was always the funniest character in the series and he was sorely missed in this novel.
If you're like me and you enjoy reading a series in its entirety (I've actually read all of the Judge Dee books twice), then you should give Murder in Canton a try; just don't expect to be overwhelemed, because this is by far one of the weakest books in an otherwise good series.
good concept, but not very well written.......2005-01-11
I was intrigued by the concept of a detective mystery set in Tang Dynasty China. Unfortunately the author hasn't mastered the essentials of writing a really good novel. The characters didn't feel believable, the dialogue is stiff and unnatural, and the plot is slow-moving and contrived.
A great read!.......2000-11-05
Judge Dee is an imperial magistrate who travels the country solving mysteries and murders. Not content merely to judge cases as they come to court, Judge Dee investigates crimes himself.
Now Chief Lord Justice, Judge Dee is sent undercover to the city of Canton. His job: to find out what happened to the Court Censor. Was he murdered or has he disappeared for other reasons? Dealing with practised and conniving Imperial Court intriguers, Dee finds the case complicated as a host of foreigners are involved including a mysterious Arab with a curved sword and an exotic belly dancer. Undaunted, and with the help of his officers, the loyal Tao Gan and Chiao Tai, Dee sets out to unravel the case.
Judge Dee was practising in the 7th century but the writer, Robert Van Gulik, was a Dutch diplomat living in China in the early 20th Century. Interested in Chinese history, he decided to write a series of detective novel based old Chinese stories. Beautifully written, each Judge Dee story is a pearl of literature. The English is beautiful yet modern, easy to read yet evocative of the China that existed over 13 centuries ago.
Another chapter in a unique series.......2000-10-06
This book is part of Van Gulik's unique series of Judge Dee novels which chronicle the cases investigated by the famous magistrate of classical Chinese detective stories. A staple of the Judge Dee stories are the multi-layered plot and accurate historical details of ancient Chinese culture and practices and this book does not disappoint in both areas.
In this chapter of the series, Judge Dee is assigned to the city of Canton to investigate the disappearance and subsequent murder of a Chinese noble. Numerous side plots are thrown into the mix, involving a blind cricket-catcher and mysterious Arabian assassins. All of which the Judge slowly unravels using ingenuity and plain, old-fashioned deductive prowess which is the highlight of all the books in the series.
Average customer rating:
- Intriguingly Different Fantasy Novel
- Great Read
- A different kind of fantasy read
- interesting book and kept me laughing
- Not impressed
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Nameless Magery (Del Rey Discovery)
Delia Marshall Turner
Manufacturer: Del Rey
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
 Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
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| Literature
| Children's Books
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| Science Fiction & Fantasy
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ASIN: 0345424301
Release Date: 1998-05-27 |
Amazon.com
Delia Marshall Turner is a revolutionary in this era of big fantasy. Her Nameless Magery is a compelling, funny approach to the archetypal sword and sorcery tale of the young misfit who triumphs over enormous obstacles, completing a quest and saving the world from evil. Amazingly, she accomplishes this satisfactorily in a bit over 200 pages.
Turner's heroine, Lisane, was prepared to be the living representative of the Goddess for her whole planet before the invasion and the destruction of her family by the Enforcers, who destroy magic wherever they find it. Now she's on a world where all mages are male, stuck in a combination boarding school and juvenile detention center. "The pimply noodlebrains who grudgingly shared the senior student hall with me had come to the school as young children," Lisane comments, "and had spent the intervening years mastering magic. I didn't think it had done them much good, but I tried to keep my opinion to myself." The only mage who believes her story is Kaihan, the handsome Wizard-King. But Lisane's unique approach to magic will prove indispensable.
There's frank talk about sex and some imaginative cursing here, but Nameless Magery is a marvelous coming-of-age story that you won't want to put down. --Nona Vero
Book Description
Thrust into a strange land, Lisane possessed extraordinary magic. But could she carve out a place for herself in the beautiful barbaric realm that was her new home--a place where dark secrets held the promise of life--and death . . . ?
In her homeland, mages conversed with the magical forces of ller, reverently seeking permission for the spells they cast. Then came a terrible scourge, draining the world of ller, killing the mages, and enslaving the survivors. But this clever young girl fled the onslaught.
Raised to be Queen of her people, to wield the magic born from ller, Lisane found precarious refuge in a distant land where only men wielded power. Still able to call up the mystic currents of ller, she was saved from summary execution by the maddeningly handsome Kaihan, King and Wizard. Thus Lisane was placed with the other young adepts--the only female among them--and the only true mage that could save them.
If they didn't kill her first . . .
Customer Reviews:
Intriguingly Different Fantasy Novel.......2003-06-26
Lisane crashlands her spaceship on an unfamiliar planet when she is forced to flee for her life from the Enforcers on her home planet. She was the princess of her old world and destined to rule her people for the rest of her natural life, but all that is gone now. Lisane is not sure what to make of the new world and is slowly starving to death when Simon finds her. Simon is a wizard and a teacher at a school where other wizards are trained. He is unaware that Lisane is a girl and takes her to the school, where all the other students are boys. Lisane doesn't exactly fit in on this new planet, but she refuses to let the others get her down, especially the sadistic Detter, who looks like an angel, but must surely be a demon in disguise. When her education is complete, she leaves the school with Simon and Detter to journey across the land to face the Beast and win her magebands. The lands through which they pass are varied and some like wizards and others hate them. Along the way, Lisane has the opportunity to grow up and realize that this world is no less complex than her old world. As she struggles to find a place for herself and to figure out her feelings for Kaihan, the acknowledged head of the wizarding world, she discovers that her unique way of looking at magic, or ller, may be all that can save her newly adopted planet from the Enforcers, who are heading down to destroy them all...
I enjoyed the story and thought that Delia Marshall Turner was very creative in her treatment of magic and the different planets. This book is a unique blend of science fiction and fantasy that actually worked really well. I felt that the beginning of the book was a bit slow and then it was a huge rush at the end, but the storyline itself was good. This book is well written and Turner's descriptions are quite clear, although sometimes a little dry. However, the reason why I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 is that I really hated Lisane. I know that it is good to have a strong female character in a book, but I just couldn't relate with Lisane and found myself really disliking her at times. I hated Detter, of course, but Turner portrays him in a way that you have to hate him. I was also disappointed at the lack of interaction between Kaihan and Lisane. It was like Turner was building up to the moment when the romantic tension between them would come to a head and then it is over in one page! What is up with that? I would definitely have liked to read more about Kaihan and how he fits into the world there, but he was left a shadow figure in the background. Very disappointing. I think that the book is appropriate for mature teens and adults, but I would be careful about recommending it to all young adults (even though it is considered a young adult book) because the book deals with quite a bit of sex, including homosexuality, S & M, etc. and is not for all readers. Also, bear in mind that this book is rather hard to get into at first, it took me weeks to get through it, and that is very unusual for me. A good book, but not necessarily likeable, if you know what I mean.
Great Read.......2002-07-29
This is a wonderful book. It kept me interested and snickering the whole way through. When I finished I felt energized and yearning to read something else by this author. The only reason I didn't give the book five stars is that the end felt rushed and Kaihan wasn't developed enough. If for no other reason, you should read this book for Detter. Absolutely fascinating character - I'd love to read an entire book about him! Or this book from his point of view.
A different kind of fantasy read.......2002-05-28
A had my doubts when i picked this up, its a different kind of fantasy then those that i usually read. But dont let a strange cover fool you. Delia Marshall Turner gives you a different perspective on many different things, Lisane has the ability to see magic. And when Lisane, the virgin queen of her people, finally forsakes her virginity and does it with her magician guide Simon, the author doesnt describe it as a blissful event like most writers do, she takes it more in a factual way, only telling how inexperienced her partner and self were, sure she explains a few of the sensations, but i found it lacking. And when Simon deserts Lisane and Detter i couldnt help but want Lisane to stay with him and become his wife, i mean its posible right? She was the future queen of her people. In Lisane's true dreams hey didnt always come true, she never hooked up with Detter like it simulated. Also, Delia Marshall Turner has a wide vocabulary, i just thought that ought to be known, so when you read this i would keep a dictionary at hand. And in the end of this book i wondered why in Lisane finally ended up with Kaihan. He's a bald man whos lived a century or two. They just didnt seem to fit, the two of them. Overall i found it a gripping book full of twists, but at the end i felt oddly unsatisfied, and wished the story would continue to a more complete resolution.
interesting book and kept me laughing.......2002-05-26
Lisane has spent her whole life training for her eventual role as the living goddess of her planet, and all that comes to an end when the Enforcers destroy her world and take her people. She escapes and ends up on a world where the only mages are male and no one seems to have the proper reverence for magic. Young mages are dangerous (every student at the school is there because he killed someone when his powers came into being), and the school Lisane stays at also functions as a kind of prison. Many students don't survive the methods used to teach them, but Lisane is determined to get through it all and find a place for herself on this backward planet.
Although this isn't a ha-ha sort of book, like, say, the Discworld series, the author has a sense of humor and it shows. Lisane's observations about this new culture she's found herself in are highly amusing. The author did a great job writing characters that, although not always likeable, were fascinating the read about. The book drops in quality at the end, when the author condenses a planet-wide event/conflict into about 15 pages. The author didn't spend nearly enough time fleshing out the character Kaihan, considering how much larger his role in the book gets near the end. In spite of all that, I love this book and plan on reading it again any time I need a good snicker along with an interesting fantasy environment and plot.
Not impressed.......2002-01-12
Ok I read the back of this book and was interested cause it sounded good. Well I read it and I must say that I was very unimpressed. I thought that Lisane was kind of a flaky character, and I thought that her background wasn't as throughly explained as is could have been. It also seemed that the author, I don't know, got tired of writng at the end of the book. It was like she just wanted to end the book and so she just lumped everything together in the last chapter and ended it. Everything happend at once and then it was over. And ever that was left kinda vauge in some points. All in all I found it unentertaining and I wouldn't recommend it.
Product Description
Magic made them special. The law would make them dead. Nameless Magery: On her idyllic home world Mennenkaltenei, mages convrsed with the spirit forces of Iler, reverently seeking permission for the spells they cast. Then the Enforcers came--cruel witch hunters who drained the world of Iler, slaughtered the mages and enslaved the survivors. But clever Lisane, raised to be the Queen of her people and to wield the magic she was born with, fled their grasp and found refuge in a strange land where magic was mistrusted and controlled by men. Still able to call up her powers, she was placed with other young adepts--the sole female among them. But surviving the tricks of malicious students was just the beginning. The true test of her abilities was yet to come. Of Swords and Spells: Malka had been on the run longer than she could remember, fleeing her sadistic Master and honing her sword-fighting skills. But when her teacher betrayed to the Enforcers, only her natural magical abilities could save her. She found refuge on a magic-driven ship run by Roder Massim--a Monitor authorized to watch-dog Forcer actions. He was outraged by their "wipe" of Mennenkaltenei, but all his attempts to stop them failed, and Roder found that the Forcers were suddenly after him. Now Malka, Roder and his motley crew of witches must make a desperate dash for freedom, to a world, hopefully, outside the long reach of the law.
Customer Reviews:
Good starting point.......2007-01-11
This is a good book for the treatment of GAD. You just have to be flexible and realize not every patient is going to fit this mold.
Book Description
A comprenhensive directory of vegetables, fruit and herbs with advice on how to grow them in a healthy and chemical free environment.
Customer Reviews:
although the rest are very fine, this is still the best.......2000-07-20
It is a real shame that this book is presently out-of-print, I borrowed it from the local library some 5 years ago, and to this date have yet to see anything better in this genre. The technical data about precious stones - such as dispersion, types of refraction, specific gravity, types of cutting, and so on - are well covered, with specific commentaries on individual stones presented in encyclopaedic format. It's very useful not only for specific reference but just for general browsing. What sets this book apart, on the other hand, is the quality and quantity of the gem photography. There are pictures of every major and minor gem in the world, and where a particular type of stone has more than one color - or colors - the entire suite of colors is presented. So the garnets, sapphires, diamonds, tourmalines, topazes, beryls (just to name a few) look positively kaleidoscopic. The opal section alone has some magnificent stones, including top-quality Lightning Ridge black, one of which is photographed from different directions to demonstrate the superb color play. The zircon and spinel photography is quite impressive too.
This book is emphatically not for the investor or speculator who is looking for advice, and no attempts at valuation are made. On the other hand, for readers interested in specific gemmological research or (esoteric) appreciation, this book will be ideal. The level of scholarship is impeccable, and the book is not overwhelmingly technical or difficult. It is not cheap but is worth every penny. Most strongly recommended.
A superb reference book of colored gemstones!.......1997-11-12
Outstanding color photographs to review, that are matched to technical data regarding the various gemstone "families". There is a very fine topic governing "colors" of gemstones as well. Joel Arem has done a very fine job!
Book Description
Combine traditional blocks with fun, colorful prints to create quick quilts for baby! Bestselling author Ursula Reikes is back with an all-new collection of bright, cheerful quilt patterns that are so simple, even beginners can stitch up a quilt top in a weekend or less--no previous quilting experience required! Includes:
• Step-by-step directions for 20 cuddly baby quilts, each ideal for quilters with little time to spare
• Two colorways featured for each pattern, including soft pastels and bold, bright fabrics, so you can be confident about color before making the first cut
• Rotary cutting guidelines, speedy piecing techniques, and complete finishing instructions for each project
Book Description
Want to make something special, but don't have a lot of time to invest in the process? Now you can stitch super-quick gifts for babies, kids, and even adults with these colorful, quick, and easy projects! Even beginners can stitch up a quilt top in just a few hours.
• Choose from 21 adorable quilts, such as "Bzzz," "I Love Cats," "Spinning Balloons," and "Frosty and Friends"
• Follow complete, illustrated directions, rotary-cutting guidelines, and speedy piecing tips to stitch up a quilt in a snap
• Many projects are based on familiar traditional quilt blocks, such as Four Patch, Snowball, Kitty Corner, and Monkey Wrench
Customer Reviews:
Great for beginners.......2006-07-15
I have made a few beautiful quilts and it didn't take me a long time to finish any of them. I have received many compliments and have been asked if I have been quilting for a long time...Nope, it's only been a few months! The instructions in the book are easy to follow, and the results are fufilling and wonderful! Have fun!
Soo Easy.......2004-12-05
I have had this book for a few years. The quilts are easy and adaptable. It is now falling a part. I need to buy another one.
The colors are great as well.
A real confidence builder!.......2004-01-03
The quilt that sold me on this book is the Attic Windows pattern. It is fabulous and easy. The great thing about the patterns in Quilts for Baby Easy as ABC, is that you don't have to make a quilt for a baby-make a quilt for anyone. Make a quilt as big or small as want. It is the most fun book on quilting and Ursula Reikes makes it effortless.
Easy enough for kids to do.......2003-08-15
I have purchased tons of books for teaching kids how to quilt but none have been as easy as this. The publisher missed out on part of the market. The blocks are so simple the book should be available for children learning how to quilt.
I made one of the quilts based on the X-quisite block. I can honestly say that it took longer to pick the fabric than it took to make the quilt. I finished it in half a day (shhh - don't tell), machine tied and bound.
Perfect for beginners or people who want to make something special without a lot of time and fuss. The blocks rely on really great "conversational prints" to make the quilts work.
Change the print and have a lap quilt for an older person or pet quilt. It is also very easy to figure out how much fabric you need to make the quilt bigger so you can't go wrong.
It isn't just for babies - and it's so easy you will wonder what you were waiting for. If you have made a quilt before, get started today and don't be surprised if you finish it today. If you are a beginner, this is a great place to start.
More Quilts for Baby.......2000-05-03
Great book! I have never quilted before, in fact I just bought a sewing machine for fun 2 weeks ago. Since then, I have made 3 quilts from this book. It is so easy, I am looking for the first 2 in her series.
Amazon.com
The traditional living room has increasingly given way to the idea of a "great room"--a space adaptable enough to entertain guests, encourage playful children, provide a comfortable place to view videos, and, yes, even accommodate the solitary reader. Pottery Barn Living Rooms leads such a reader through the basic issues and specific choices available to anyone wanting to re-do an existing space or design a new living room. Each of its ten chapters is devoted a specific subject (color, texture, lighting); all chapters begin with an overview of the topic, followed by virtual tours of rooms--both large and smaller, formal and casual—complete with gorgeous photos. The accompanying text goes on to explain how the real-life owners of these rooms created a sense of intimacy, a dramatic effect with lighting, or a convivial place in which people are likely to congregate. Whether you have high ceilings or low, a large budget or a limited one, this book is valuable for anyone looking for sensible ideas in creating a room perfect for all kinds of living. --David Bombeck
Book Description
Whether decorating, refining or updating the most lived-in room in the house, Pottery Barn Living Rooms is the essential guide. Drawing on the expertise of the country's leading home funinshings retailer, Pottery Barn Living Rooms offers tips and techniques on style, space, color, lighting and more. Over xxx phtos and detailed diagrams translate personal style to effortless dcor.
Customer Reviews:
Beautiful, Interesting and Helpful........2006-03-08
I am rather insecure when it comes to interior design, yet I have the desire to have a beautiful home on a budget. This book helped me not only identify a color palate for my living room, but gave me ideas to easily change the look for the change of seasons. It helped my husband and I create our own casual, yet polished look that we are proud to call home!
A Good book for living room design Ideas.......2006-02-24
I really have enjoyed this book. Though I have not found every page useful, there are enough ideas to make it worth the purchase. The chapters cover many important design aspects in a living room: your style, space, color, texture, furnishings, lighting, windows, storage, accessories and display. Be aware that it is naturally focused to the Pottery Barn style of decorating - which can be somewhat generic. But there are enough inspirational ideas that you can interpret and make them work for you whether you shop at Pottery Barn or not.
Pottery Barn Living Rooms (Pottery Barn Design Library).......2005-10-07
GREAT book and great series (all the Pottery Barn Design Library books)! I have an interior design background, and this series is the best I've ever read --- great design and storage ideas that are easy to do and the ideas are multi-faceted, so you could use in another room, etc.
Middle of the road.......2004-08-27
I have read/used three of the Pottery Barn books listed in order of my opinion of them: Baths, Living Rooms, and Bedrooms. Baths was very good, with beautiful photographs, interesting and innovative ideas, and some useful design advice. Most of the book provided a several page showcase for an individual bath with discussion of what made it special.
Living rooms was OK. It's content was more canned, but it still had some inspiration and enough ideas that were useful that although I would not put it amongst the best such books, it was worth an hour or two to browse.
Bedrooms hit the bottom of the list for me. The content seemed especially canned. The ideas were not fully developed and most of them appeared to me more appropriate to someone's first apartment than an established home (so it just needs the right audience?). Lot's of the pictures involved just using eclectic pieces and did not involve actually developing a decorative theme.
Achieving Calm.......2004-01-16
I think Pottery Barn livingrooms gives clear, memorable design ideas that all point to achieving a sense of calm in your nest. Beyond that they show you how to mix textures, periods and shapes to make your space interesting. And maybe best of all they give us rooms that are nicely edited so that every special detail, or object's qualities can be appreciated. It's a very good guide to good taste.
Book Description
This priceless teaching tool features more than 70 proven-effective programs from the country's leading graphic design schools. Spanning from traditional, "bricks and mortar" approaches to the ever-widening digital frontier of graphic design, these syllabi include detailed introductions, weekly breakdowns, project suggestions, and selected readings, as well as offer valued background material on the history, social responsibility, and cultural impact of design. More than an instructor's guide, Teaching Graphic Design is a self-contained chronicle of the past, present, and future of the art and the industry.
Customer Reviews:
If you are seeking for new inspiration, this is an excellente book.......2007-03-25
Teaching Graphic Design offers a comprehensive array of topics and teaching tips for all levels. It includes an overview, course requirements, suggestion for projects and selected readings, enabling teachers to choose inspiring topics and materials to structure your class intelligently.
Just okay.......2006-11-10
I teach 100 & 200 level college classes, so not all of these projects are applicable. The book is just okay, but I think that depends on the level of your students and what sort of projects you are looking for. If I were to only buy one book for helpful suggestions and assignments, this ISN'T the one. I strongly recommend "Graphic Design School" by David Dabner or "The News Graphic Design School" by Alan Swann. At least those have better color pictures, afterall this is a very visual topic by nature!
Not helpful for a new teacher.......2006-05-07
Although many lessons are given, not many examples are shown. It assumes that one knows a lot about teaching the subject and has had similar lessons in the past. Good for experienced teachers, not so good for those new to the subject. I would recommend Resnick's "Design for Communication" instead.
Could be a good resource, but a bit BORING.......2006-01-15
I've read through this book a number of times and picked up some interesting ideas for the classroom, but nothing that blows me away. Many of the exercises are rehashes of ones I read earlier in the book and that was a bit disappointing. I plan on reading through a number of these lesson plans again, but trust me its not very exciting.
Very Helpfull.......2005-10-04
Even on my poor english this book is very helpfull and the author is one of the best designers i ever heard about.
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Lydia Thompson: Queen of Burlesque (Forgotten Stars of Musical Theatre, 1)
Kurt Ganzl
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This inaugural volume in the Forgotten Stars of the Musical Theatre series sets Lydia Thompson, queen of burlesque, under the spotlight. The series will attempt to resurrect theatre performers and writers who were famous in their era, yet who have since inexplicably faded from popular memory. Outlandish tales of Lydia's touring burlesque company, the "British Blondes," and such lurid episodes as her horsewhipping of a Chicago editor, a romance with a Russian Grand Duke and a lesbian attacker have left her with a reputation as a bawdy burlesquer, but Kurt Gänzl argues she was nothing of the kind. Through this biography, the reader will learn the whole and hitherto untold story of this fascinating, multi-dimensional musical-theatre star.
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Expensive, but worth it.......2003-03-15
Despite the ludicrous price the publisher is charging for this book, I would recommend everyone sell some plasma and stagger out to buy it. One of the best show-biz bios I have ever read. Chatty, informative, stunningly well-researched; often funny. The author takes us not only into the life and career of a very successful (but now forgotten) star, but takes us on some fascinating side-trips as well.
A superb job--many pats on the back to Mr. Gänzl.
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