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“Set in 1920s India, this magical debut novel tells the story of beautiful Anuradha, whose songs are spellbinding, but whose fate is troubled.”
–Elle
When the astonishingly lovely Anuradha moves to Bombay to marry Vardhmaan, a charming young doctor, their life together has all the makings of a fairy tale. But when their firstborn son dies in a terrible accident, tragedy transforms their marriage into a bleak landscape. As the pair starts fresh in a heartbroken old villa by the sea, they are joined by Nandini, a dazzling and devious artist with a trace of leopard blood in her veins. While Nandini flamboyantly takes on Bombay’s art scene, the couple attempts to mend their marriage, eventually discovering that real love, mercurial and many-hued, is given and received in silence. Sensuous and electric, achingly moving and wickedly funny, The Last Song of Dusk is a tale of fate that will haunt your heart like an old and beloved song.
“A cornucopia of life at full tilt and high color . . . Shanghvi–who’s been compared to Arundhati Roy, Zadie Smith, and Vikram Seth–combines ribald humor with prose poetry.”
–Sunday Oregonian
“Few first novelists achieve such perfection, such control, in their performance.”
–India Today
“A gorgeous novel . . . written with a youthful twinkling eye.”
–Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Lush, witty . . . sassy prose . . . moves like a carnival ride.”
–San Francisco Chronicle
Customer Reviews:
Promising, Yet Ultimately Falls Short.......2007-07-14
I have mixed feelings about this book. It kind of reminds me of those kids in school who you knew were absolutely brilliant and capable of straight A's, yet managed only a B average. Shanghvi's prose is lush, his analogies satisfying, yet he almost drowns himself in his own script as the book moves on. The characters are certainly interesting, yet lose their momentum towards the end of the novel. The plot loses it's zest, becoming bogged down in his own philosophical reveries that can exhaust the reader with it's ambiguity (which you could argue, is the point, however, there is only so much ambiguity a reader can take). I look forward to what this writer will produce in the future, and, considering this was his first novel, I'd say he did a good job overall.
Profound, haunting, inspiring.......2007-07-09
Music sings its way through evil, tragedy, and immense passions. I copied the last page and reread it frequently. All the events, all the characters, all the emotions, and all the magic hit a magnificent chord that transports me again and again to a place where I feel life most deeply.
violently violet prose.......2006-10-17
This book is odd to me, because it's lushly written-- I can smell the frangipani that Anuradha braids into her hair, hear the peacocks screeching, taste the dust that rises as the rickshaws trundle down the street-- but at the same time the lushness convolutes and confuses. The author, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, has a true talent for description, but sometimes he loses control of himself and indulges in prose that becomes positively violet (especially in the sex scenes with all the phallic worship):
"...the restless, hungry baton in his trousers..."
"...the adamantine sumptuousness of his manhood: a proud, thick, succulent thing had found its home..."
"...a member between his legs that was lonely and strong willed and utterly gorgeous inside its own confusion..."
What in the world does that last one even mean? The "[...] yay!" enthusiasm gets a bit old after a while, and the attitude toward it becomes, "Yes, yes, we know [...] is king. Can we get back to the story now?"
...on the other hand, we have little witticisms that amuse me enough to redeem the above indiscretions about 20%, such as the following:
"Are you a star?" he asked.
"No," she replied, "I'm an entire constellation."
The pacing is languid, as befits a story set in turn-of-the-century India. It unravels at its own pace, with flashbacks that are handled with subtlety and without feeling intrusive or clumsy. Shanghvi doesn't rush through anything, is in no hurry to chivvy the plot along, but somehow it's all so interesting we don't care and are content to go along with him, trusting him to get us where we need to go.
I'm not crazy about the foreshadowing, however, which occurs with all the finesse of a mallet to the skull. And the dialogue is too contemporary far too often-- doesn't sound in the least like something people in post-colonial India would say in the 1920's. There's a clear feminist theme, here, as well as pro-gay overtones, both of which feel forced, like there's an agenda behind them. I've always felt that if you're going for social commentary in your fiction, it shouldn't hit you like an arrow through the neck.
It's irritating when the vicious old bat of the story (you knew there was going to be one, right?) has entire conversations with her equally malicious parrot, and the anthropomorphization of the house in which they live seems a bit batty. There's a weird quasi-magical subtheme that's more puzzling than intriguing-- a red herring that adds questionable merit to the overall story, is never explained or justified-- we're supposed to accept it without questioning.
Well, to hell with that. I question, baby, and I want answers: why do the women of Anuradha's family have the ability to work magic with their songs? Is Mohan a prodigy or some sort of divine creature? Is the house really alive and cranky? How is Nandini able to walk on water? Can it be possible for her to be the descendent of a human/leopard union?
The characterization is over-the-top, much of the time: there are three main characters, and they're all bewitchingly attractive, and their faults are never true faults (i.e. things that risk making the reader dislike them). They are, instead, faults that are supposed to make us like the characters all the more: Vardhmaan can't get over the grief of losing his son, but wouldn't we think him a less-than-devoted sire if he sprang back so quickly and easily? Nandini's wild, fey ways are meant to fascinate more than repel (such as when she tells Gandhi his loincloth is hopelessly sexy-- we're supposed to be delighted by that rampant iconoclasty, and it shows).
And the nasty crone, Devi-bai, is a caricature of the evil stepmother... until they move out of the house, and then her wicked influence over their lives abruptly ends. What sort of antagonist is that? No bad guy worth their salt would just let themselves be written out of the book halfway through and let a possessed house take over the role.Unless she's not the antagonist of the story, in which case it should be made clearer because it's confusing.
The book does succeed in submerging the reader into the world of 1920's India, and the characters and plot are compelling enough to keep one reading instead of putting it aside, but overly lurid phrasing, anachronisms of speech, and whacked-out mystic occurances jolt one's suspension of disbelief and call attention to the ultimate weakness of the prose.
As a first novel, The Last Song of Dusk is excellent, achieving a dreamlike surreality that other, more experienced writers strive (and fail) to accomplish, but in comparison to other authors (masters) of this genre (Isabel Allende, Arundhati Roy) it's clear where he's being imitative, rather than intuitive.
Beautiful language but the rest not so much.......2006-06-12
From the moment I started reading this novel I was captivated by the beauty of Shanghvi's words. But as the story moved on it got more and more unrealistic. The characters and what they stood for was all far too ambitious and I lost interest, I just stuck through it to find out what happened. It is beautifully written but thats about it. Shanghvi tried to take the story into a million different directions but it did not work out. I wish it were a lot more simpler and honest
The Last Song of Dusk Fails in Many Ways Yet Still Manages to Captivate.......2006-03-03
I am almost complete reading this novel. I was captivated by The Last Song of Dusk especially in the first half of the book. Especially the first few chapters that dealt with Anuradha and Vardhaman's marriage. However I didn't particularly enjoy the idea of unbelievable characters. It just didn't fit in with the context of the story.
Shanghvi fails miserably to capture the authentic dialogue of Indian people in India in the 1920's. At some parts, I was convinced that the characters were modern day characters.
I must contradict myself here but even though all of the above irked me to an extent, I just wanted to continue to find out what the fate of Anuradha and Nandini were. I hope I am not disappointed.
Whilst Shanghvi does not compare with Arundhati Roy in any way, his novel does stand out and will definitely be one that I wont forget. I think perhaps this has to do with the actual ideas and plots in the story.
Worth reading if you have time to spare. I usually finish a novel within a day or two but this one is taking me a lot more time.
Customer Reviews:
One of her best "pure" romance books ............2006-12-17
Other ppl have already said what this book is about and I dont want to give out further details or it'll just ruin it for other ppl who havnt read it yet. But I will say this, this book reads like a movie.. written so well and vividly that you wont even notice the words... you'll "see" the drama played out in your mind. Its one of those books. Beautiful, taestful, a classic romance by Sandra Brown. Enjoy!
Passionate, bittersweet melodrama.......2006-10-18
Keeley was married just three weeks before her husband Mark's helicopter was shot down in Vietnam and he was classified as an MIA 12 years earlier. She has remained faithful over the years. As she prepares to meet with Congress to fight for the right to maintain his MIA status to continue receiving his military salary which pays for the care of his elderly parents, she meets and falls for a sexy congressman. As she struggles with the guilt to love on without Mark and forge a new relationship with Dax, she finds herself in a catch 22 when there is a possibility that Mark is among the group of POW's that have emerged out of the jungle.
Because it was written early in Brown's career, character development takes a backseat to the romance itself. But this, emotional drama plays out like a well-scripted movie of the week, and has readers wondering who they will root for.
Read It Only When There Is Nothing Else To Do.......2006-09-08
It wasn't the worst that I've read, but it was also far from the best.
In this lame attempt to play off the tales of MIA/POWs, readers are introduced to Keeley Preston whose husband, Mark, has been missing for many years. Keeley has remained faithful for all those years in hopes that Mark is still alive and to fight to maintain his military pay that, in turn, pays for his elderly parents medical costs. She is the leader of a small but determined group of women who are scheduled to argue against declaring their husbands dead by the government in front of a special committee.
And it is in flight to this committee meeting that Keeley meets a handsome stranger and falls in love. Yet she is torn between her hopes and intense guilt and the strong feelings she has for this man who just "happened" into her life. Just when she is at the apex of her emotional struggle, she gets "the" call...a group of soldiers have wondered out of the jungle. Is Mark among them?
If you read romance frequently, you can probably guess the end. If you can't, then pick it up and read it; but do so when there isn't much else to do or anything else to read.
Hot and Steamy.......2005-09-13
I loved it and was totally engrossed from the start. I love Sandra Brown books!!
More Like a Rough Draft!.......2005-05-13
Sandra Brown attempts to tap the MIA / POW debate that has been continuing for years. TOMORROW'S PROMISE is a story of a woman whose husband has been missing in action for years and just when she starts coping with the fact that he's not coming back, fate plays a nasty trick. The government announces that 26 men have been found, alive. She's torn between hope that her husband is one of those men, and longing for a new love that she's just found.
This is a pleasant enough way to spend some free time in which you don't want to think and "veg out". There's nothing in TOMORROW'S PROMISE that will get your mind moving, or your blood pressure up for that matter. This is an ok story line, but it leaves you feeling like it's Brown's rough draft and not the final book. There's room for many subplots, stronger character definition, etc., but she falls short of this being a spectacular book. Because of the cookie-cutter plot line, the story is very predictable, and leaves little to the imagination. TOMORROW'S PROMISE is another one you don't want to buy new, just borrow someone else's copy!
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The best. These are the way stories should be........2000-06-25
Le Guin's talent is diverse, but Science Fiction stories seem to be her best. And oh she is agile. This collection has everything. There's a small humorous story, a workshop story, an idea story, but finally there are the most important: the churten stories. Le Guin's Hainish universe has appeared in most of her other scifi novels, but these stories are probably the best. "The Shobies Story," "Dancing to Ganam" and "Another Story" (I think that's all) are all separate, but they all deal with 'churten,' Le Guin's brand of instantaneous travel. As usual, though, she doesn't focus on technology. She's a people writer, and the science is only there to bring out all of the psychological, emotional and spiritual questions with the characters. The title story, or "Another Story" is about a man who is caught in two places at once as a result of the churten. A delight to read. Each word is perfectly placed. Exquisite.
Book Description
The winner of the Pushcart Prize, the Kafka Award, and the National Book Award, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a profound and transformational literature. The award-winning stories in
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea range from the everyday to the outer limits of experience, where the quantum uncertainties of space and time are resolved only in the depths of the human heart. Astonishing in their diversity and power, they exhibit both the artistry of a major writer at the height of her powers and the humanity of a mature artist confronting the world with her gift of wonder still intact.
Customer Reviews:
the last story just stays with me.......2006-01-05
i like this whole anthology despite not generally being a fan of short stories. however, it is the last one (the title story) i find most haunting. i come back to it again and again.
Story, meaning, and community.......2005-04-17
This little book is what LeGuin calls a "story suite", a set of interconnected short stories with overlapping themes and characters. The connecting theme of Four Ways to Forgiveness is, no surprises here, forgiveness--specifically, forgiveness between men and women trapped in the evils of gender domination. The connecting theme of Fisherman is narrative--story as a way to organize reality, story as revelation, story as truth.
All of the stories in Four Ways are set in LeGuin's Hainish universe, or the Ekumen. This is not the case with Fisherman; the three longest stories are set in the Ekumenical universe, but there are other, shorter pieces, including several humorous ones. "The Ascent of the North Face" describes climbing a gigantic skyscraper as if it were Everest. "The First Contact with the Gorgonids" makes an unexpected heroine of a browbeaten wife. "The Kerastion" demonstrates what an inspired writer can do with a list of items generated at a workshop; it's a story about a musical instrument that makes no sound.
The three Ekumenical stories, include the title story, revolve around the invention of a new technology, churten theory. Hitherto LeGuin has obeyed Einstein in this universe; her spaceships travel Nearly As Fast As Light, but never faster. People who wish to travel between worlds must accept that a trip which seems to them to take four days may amount to four hundred years on their home planet. Now, however, the Cetian and Hainish physicists have come up with churten, which is instantaneous travel, transilience: from here to there in no interval, no time. LeGuin, as always, is interested in how people deal with the implications of such technology, rather than in how it works.
In "The Shobies' Story", the first group of people to travel by churten *as* a group deals with a chaotic experience of their trip by weaving a single coherent story. "Dancing to Ganam" is a classic story example of the unreliable narrator: What do you do when the hero you admire seems to be telling a story that makes no sense? Finally, my favorite story, "Another Story, or, A Fisherman of the Inland Sea", explores the problem of churten and the marriage arrangements of the people of the planet O, who marry by sedoretu, a bond between two men and two women.
"Another Story" is, I think, LeGuin's only time-travel story to date, and it is unlike any other time-travel story I've ever read. Hideo leaves the farmhold where he grew up, son of a Japanese woman who married into this ancient culture, to study churten theory on Hain and its neighboring planet of Ve. His one visit home makes him realize how much he has given up in order to do so; he is deeply shaken by seeing his germane Isidri, child of the other parents in the marriage, married but without children. After many years of study, he uses churten to travel from Hain to O and discovers he has gone back in time eighteen years; he has the opportunity to reclaim the life he gave up.
The title of the story is based on a traditional Japanese folktale which Hideo's mother used to tell, about a handsome young fisherman who spends a night with the Queen of the Sea and returns to his village four hundred years later. I read the same story as a child in one of my many fairy tale books, where it was called "Urashima and the Turtle". Urashima's magical experience of time dilation is the same as Hideo's mother's experience of it--the loss of all she held dear in her decision to work for the Ekumen. Churten is the overcoming of that loss, which requires the creation of a new story, another story, in order to understand the universe.
Once again, Le Guin offers new stories by which we can come to new understandings of our own universe.
Le Guin's imagination is always a pleasure.......2004-05-24
These eight stories run the gamut from whimsical to cautionary, most including elements of both.
The three last and longest deal with "churten" travel, which allows instantaneous space travel or "transilience." Le Guin makes no attempt to explain this in technological terms and all three stories explore the early, experimental phases of the churten.
The most interesting, "The Shobies' Story," concerns the pioneering churtenists. Initially, the experiment seems a success, if somewhat disorienting. But soon gaps in perception appear - events change according to who narrates them and in the face of this perceptual chaos the human psyche begins a panicky unraveling.
The most humorous story is "The First Contact With the Gorgonids" in which the ugly American meets the aliens and the grimmest is "The Kerastion," in which an artist's desire for permanence leads to tragedy. These are also the shortest.
Le Guin often deals with hubris. In "Newton's Sleep" a smugly rational man, driven to isolate his family from the pollution of Earth, is himself isolated by his inability to incorporate the irrational. In one of the churten stories, "Dancing to Ganam," a man's oversized vision of himself leads to a not entirely unexpected fate.
Le Guin's writing is, as always, fluid and evocative. While some stories are more predictable than others, each is a pleasure.
Read it if only for the last story.......2002-09-19
The final story in this book, "Another Story," is almost certainly my favorite short story ever, and I've read a lot of them. Her writing is wonderful, and a lot of the best elements of both her writing and usual themes come together wonderfully in the final story. The other ones are worth reading, too, but the final story stands on its own and is alone worth finding this book now that it is, sadly, out of print. (I found two copies in a bookstore's bargain stack 6 year ago, luckily for me!)
Find the book, and at least read the last story. It's truly wonderful.
Again and again.......2001-07-31
I finally bought this book after I checked it out from the library about once a month just to read the last story again. It is my favorite story of all time. The one story is worth the money. The others are OK and a few are fun. I would like to have just the last story in a smaller version.
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Richard Lovelace gives a history of spiritual renewals in light of biblical models. Isolating the elements of live orthodoxy, he proposes a comprehensive approach to renewal. Lovelace looks at such practical issues as renewal of the local congregation, the ways revivals go wrong, the evangelical thrust toward church unity, and Christian approaches to the arts and to social concern. A book for all concerned to revitalize the church.
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A spiritually rejuvenating book.......2006-07-26
This book has a riveting spell on me since I first read it a decade ago and has continued to shape the fundamental landscape of my understanding of theology and spirituality ever since. He traces his conversion from atheism to his reading of Thomas Merton's Seven Storey Mountain, that led him to a journey of spiritual inquiry, where he met Christians of different shades and backgrounds. It was however the Reformed tradition/Puritans that had the most profound impact on him and opened him up to the transforming power of the gospel.
He sees a missing link between justification and sanctification among many believers which he dubs the 'sanctification gap'. He sees how it is possible to have confessed Christ, continue a life of religiosity and remain spiritually dead. In fact, either an encounter with the grace of God without an ensuing commitment to sanctification or an exposure to the righteous demands of God's law without a concomitant experience of his grace can lead to abberant forms of the Christian life. He offers a way forward by explicating how justification and sanctification are brought together conceptually and in practice.
Presenting his understanding from the Reformed perspective, he outlines the fundamental core of the gospel message that can truly set us on a vibrant course of growth and renewal. This includes depth conception of sin, and encounter with the life-transforming grace of God, justification as well as sanctification by faith, an experience of God's complete acceptance of us through the righteous achievements of Christ, claiming our authority through Christ's defeat over the diabolic, prayer and complete reliance on the Spirit, disenculturation (freedom from cultural binds)of our faith and theological integration.
He includes some additional musings on music, eschatology, live orthodoxy and Christian social concern, each of which is inspiring and thought provoking. I have found the book to be beautiful and succint in its expression and spiritually and theologically challenging. He has written a simpler version of this book with discussion questions more recently for the benefit of some who found this original work less accessible but I have found that it is nothing like reading and drinking in again and again Lovelace's very fine book 'Dynamics of Spiritual Renewal' in all its depth and beauty.
One of Chip's Top Ten (wordsntone.com).......2005-09-11
This book was one of the first to reveal that my sanctification is part of a larger, grander scheme than my private, personal spirituality. Dynamics reaches back into Church history and outlines the spirit's work through men and events, culminating in a premise for renewal that is bigger than "I." This book is both history and spiritual journey, with a framework of theological reflection similar to the book of Acts mixed in. A book like this needs to be re-read in this generation of church-growth gurus and mega-church ideology.
Thank you, Richard Lovelace.......2002-02-09
In Dynamics of Spiritual Life, Lovelace gives a scholarly, yet non-technical, analysis of the elements of revival (which Lovelace correctly dubs normal "spiritual life"). The book looks at scriptural principles, examines past revivals, and establishes a theologically sound model for implementing the lessons learned from the scriptures & the wisdom of the past. Drawing much upon Jonathan Edwards, Lovelace proposes that the elements of revival are: conviction of sin, deep understanding of justification, movement of the Spirit, prayer, community, missions, & social compassion.
Richard Lovelace is an under-recognized great Christian thinker. This volume is scholarly, insightful, and surprisingly devotional. The principles are applied and oft quoted by Tim Keller of Redeemer Presbyterian in New York. Redeemer has grown and planted about a dozen churches over the last decade. I consider this a must read for anyone who wants to understand how God works radically in normal "spiritual life."
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This book contains more than 100 simple and delicious recipes to bring profound healing benefits to you and your family. There are also many powerful, first-person accounts about people who have healed themselves of various conditions and illnesses and feel better than ever. The author includes her own personal story of dramatic weight loss and renewed health, as she dropped 100 pounds from her once 315 pound frame.
This book is designed to help you master the fine art of preparing raw foods in creative, tasteful ways. The meals have been created to help you achieve the quality of life you want and deserve. This book is not about dieting or recipes, it's about helping you build a stronger, healthier, happier life.
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I do NOT own this book..yet.......2007-07-05
For the record, I do not own this book..yet. I own probably a dozen Raw Foods (un)cookbooks and had not even heard of this one when I came upon it in a Health Practitioner's office today. While I waited for my appointment, I skimmed through it and found it to be very interesting and enjoyable reading. Although it really cannot be considered 'truly' raw by Raw Food(ist) standards, it is a great transitional book for those wanting to incorporate raw foods more often and more easily into their diets. I found the recipes to be simplistic and very yummy sounding and I would feel very comfortable giving this to someone who never even heard of being 'raw' because it seems to make that transition that simplistic.
When I do order myself a copy, I will be sure to order some for other family members as well.
I read the testimonials and they were all quite positive and inspirational. I added this book to my Wish List and think it would be a good one for anyone.
Too sweet........2006-10-16
This book has good stories about how raw food can help your health, but the recipes concentrate way too much on sweets.
An inspiring tale!.......2005-01-31
This is an inspiring tale of one woman's desire to get healthy. It is uplifting, witty, and real. It is a wonderful book for helping people not only transition from the Standard American Diet of meat and dairy to veganism, but also learning to integrate raw foods into their new lifestyle. If you are looking for a 100 percent raw food book, this is not for you. This book is not about dieting and recipes, it's about helping you build a stronger and happier life. Filled with Julie's inspirational stories, over 100 transitional recipes, and her tips for getting your life back on track. Everyone's journey is different, but we all have one thing in common, we each have to take the steps to reach our goals. Her realism is what got me to keep turning the pages. She has a great sense of humor about often embarrassing moments. We've all been there! I love reading stories of great courage and this is one of those. Julie Wandling weighed 315 pounds, had high blood pressure, back pain and could barely walk up a flight of stairs. Through the help of her mother, she found the vegan diet and raw foods and that was the start of her new life. Now at age 40, she is able to run, jump, hike, dance, swim, twirl a baton, and play with her children. In her book, she asks her readers questions like, Are you sick of being sick and tired? Overweight? Fatigued? In Pain? Then happily says, "I was all of these 15 months ago!"
Great "cook" book for healthy eating.......2004-12-12
It's more than just a recipe book, it goes over helpful ideas on exercise and easy tips on implementing this lifestyle into your daily life. The author has several testimonials in the intro of this book the I found encouraging. The recipes are eacy to follow and mostly found in your kitchen and local market. She intergrated recipes her children came up with, so you know that kids will enjoy eating healthy foods. I tried several of the recipes and found them to be wonderfully delicious and easy to make. It is a great book to have and would make a nice gift for anyone who is interested in healthy eating.
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Head vases, developed for the florist industry in the twentieth century, and now an increasingly popular collectible, were made in a variety of sizes and styles. The Encyclopedia of Head Vases provides a broad perspective on vases available, placing special emphasis on those heads which had not previously been pictured in a book. Almost 1,000 color photographs and captions identifying size and marks of 1309 heads make identification easy. Special chapters on the popular Betty Lou Nichols heads, Christmas heads, wall pockets, and related collectibles, along with a current price guide will make this book and important reference for collectors and dealers.
Customer Reviews:
This is an exact duplicate of the book published in 1996.......2003-10-29
This book is page for page a copy of the 1996 publication. There are no new heads, only updated prices. Has was the first book, it is not comprehensive. I am sorry that I spent $30.00, plus shipping and handling for the same book I already have.
Right to the "Nitty-Gritty"!.......2000-03-29
If you are expecting a "Collector's Course " on head vases to wade through , forget it. This is right to the point! Page after page of clear color photos ( with marks and values ) and a chapter on"Related Collectibles" that "hooked" this new collector for good!
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This colorful book of crafts is loosely organized around a seasonal theme, and consists mostly of instructions for making the items that go inside: sachets, cornstalk dolls, herb oil, dried flowers, Eastern European-inspired Easter eggs, and numerous other folk-art items. The Noah's Ark dough basket with its tiny dough menagerie is tremendously appealing--there's a real sense of fun here.
Customer Reviews:
2 stars if you want to learn how to make true gift baskets.......1998-11-04
This book would get more stars from a craft-oriented person looking to make holiday gifts or centerpieces for family occasions. The title is misleading, in that it does not teach you anything about how to make, wrap and market true gift baskets in the sense that phrase is used by the "gift basket industry."
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Bonnie Rosser Krims wrote The Perfect Palette for those brave souls ready to try something that has daunted many an interior designer: painting the walls something besides white. Even though paint is one of the least expensive ways to change the look of a room, most people find those little cards of color chips too intimidating. Krims's 50 color plans are foolproof combinations based on the aesthetics of certain places and familiar objects, with very specific details to help you plan which palette to use with your furnishings. Each page describes a palette of three Benjamin Moore paint colors, though Krims provides a cross-reference to two other brands and urges readers not to feel limited to a particular brand. Accent and trim colors are suggested, and three adjectives are used to describe the mood of the palette. "Meet Me in Miami," a soft orange/blue/green palette, is "fun, easygoing, peaceful" and "works well in ranch houses, deck houses, and 1950s contemporary houses;" Krims suggests it specifically for brightening a basement or family room. "The Emerald Isle," a green/yellow/violet combination with accents of dark orange and white trim, is "sassy, lush, luminous," and will make darker wood furniture "look lovely." Color Palettes is both intensely practical and utterly lovely, and will almost certainly inspire some brave experimentation. No more boring white rooms!
Customer Reviews:
not useful.......2007-09-21
Although the subtitle is "fifty inspired color plans for painting every room in your home", there are only 16 photos. The rest of the palettes have very simple inked and colored illustrations, for example, a cameo, a couple of flamingos, two pears, a bicyclist and other uninspiring subjects. This book is arranged by color combinations. Sounds good, but it isn't. For example, the "Iceland Poppy" palette has a poorly executed water color painting of light pink poppies surrounded by lime green against a white fence. It also shows three color swatches but the colors don't match the colors in the painting! This is how most of the palettes are illustrated.
The Perfect Palette.......2007-05-21
I have used this book with out current house and plan on using it in our next house. After years of renting we knew nothing in our house would be white or beige. The Perfect Palette gave us a start. It took the fear of color away. More over friends and family visiting us are commenting on how great the colors work together. I have several color books but this book has been the most practical and useful book. The key is to just use it.
Love this book!.......2006-08-05
I grew up drawing and painting on canvas, but when it comes to painting a wall...picking the right color for the room is so frustrating to me! This book really helped, and I had a lot of fun going through the different combinations. Bought a beautiful watercolor for my parents while they were on vacation, hung it on their white wall, and it just didn't look right. Went through Bonnie's book, and that weekend painted their living room, entry, and hallway in the "Lilac" palette. Perfect! Everyone just loved it! A friend was having issues redecorating. I looked at her main pieces of furniture, and through Bonnie's descriptions of what furnishings go with each palette, picked "Golden Apples" for her living/dining room, entry, and family room. It looked so good friend's thought she had a designer take over! Love this book! Gave it a 4 instead of 5 because I would like to see a few more neutral and deeper color combinations. But, what a helpful book!
STILL FIVE STARS.......2003-11-10
I'M A BIG FAN OF THIS BOOK. IT HAS HELPED ME A GREAT DEAL IN PAINTING AND DECORATING MY HOME. I AM EQUALLY THRILLED THAT MS. KRIMS CAME OUT WITH ANOTHER PERFECT PALETTE BOOK. I JUST ORDERED A COPY AND CAN'T WAIT TO POUR OVER THE PAGES.
For those with imaginations and lots of time on their hands!.......2003-06-28
There were not very many real-life applications in this book, which was very disappointing. The colors were more in the pastel range, and hardly any of the rooms shown contained a deep or bright color. If you are looking to introduce deep color into your home, skip this book and try Alice Westgate's "The Complete Color Directory". It's full of beautiful colors and even contains color swatches and how to's on using pigment for different effects.
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The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics
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Not a history book, but a compilation of sparkling, hard-hitting graphics on the international women's movement drawn from the fine arts, fashion, and advertising to comics, broadsheets, and cyberart. Liz McQuiston's vivid text and selections center on how design furthered campaigns exalting or denigrating a woman's place in the world. Biting humor and anger crop up throughout. An automaker's billboard boasting "If it were a lady it would get its bottom pinched" draws the memorable spray-painted response: "If this lady was a car, she'd run you down." Voting rights, abuse, girl power, abortion, and parity are a few of the subjects touched on in this wide-ranging, freewheeling book on design and propaganda.
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Not a history book, but a compilation of sparkling, hard-hitting graphics on the international women's movement drawn from the fine arts, fashion, and advertising to comics, broadsheets, and cyberart. Liz McQuiston's vivid text and selections center on how design furthered campaigns exalting or denigrating a woman's place in the world.Biting humor and anger crop up throughout. An automaker's billboard boasting "If it were a lady it would get its bottom pinched" draws the memorable spray-painted response: "If this lady was a car, she'd run you down." Voting rights, abuse, girl power, abortion, and parity are a few of the subjects touched on in this wide-ranging, freewheeling book on design and propaganda.
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Wonderful resources for feminists!.......2006-10-25
This book has been an unending resource for me. As an activist I am always looking for ways to pay homage to the women who came before as well as create new graphics to communicate ideas. This book is an amazing encyclopedia of little know visual history from throughout the women's movement. Not only should any feminist own this book, but any girl or woman who loves the old school suffrage warriors, rosie the riviter, and the explosive energy of riot grrls.
I do not go anywhere without this book.
a visual history of the American women's movement.......2000-04-08
While the introduction by Germaine Greer is a little disappointing precisely because it lacks the edge of the rest of the book, overall I would definitely recommend this book for anyone interested in the history of the women's movement. Suffragettes and She-Devils incorporates a visual history with short commentary, but unlike other texts, we see the biting and often wacky side of feminism. Instead of photos of activists and protests, the focus is instead on politically-themed visual and commercial art of the movement. An edgy, eye-catching coffee table book for any feminist.
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