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- Brings Much Needed Levity to An Otherwise Heavy Subject
- Flip Side of the Coin
- The baby trail isn't always paved in gold...
- If you are going throught it . . . it is a safe read
- Thinking about hitting the baby trail?
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The Baby Trail: A Novel
Sinead Moriarty
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Book Description
Meet Emma Hamilton. She's thirty-three, has a great husband, and loves her life. It's the perfect time to start a family!
Emma has it all mapped out: Go off the pill in December, have sex, get pregnant by January, have the baby in September. And with the help of a personal trainer, Emma figures she'll be back in shape by Christmas. Happy New Year!
But when three months of candle-scented sex fails to produce the desired result, Emma's life becomes a rollercoaster of post-coital handstands, hormone inducing (a.k.a. sanity reducing) drugs, and a veritable army of fertility specialists. Emma and James try everything, from ovulation kits to in-vitro, but all their carefully laid plans seem to go south -- in direct proportion to Emma's plummeting self-esteem. And just when Emma feels she's alienated everyone in her life -- her twice-pregnant confidante, her singleton friend, even her own husband -- events
take a ninety-degree turn that will have unforeseen consequences for everyone.
With The Baby Trail Sinead Moriarty brings a wicked sense of humor to a subject of fevered concern for women today. Sizzlingly funny yet deeply moving, this novel is sure to ring true for women who can hear the tick-tock of their own biological clocks.
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Brings Much Needed Levity to An Otherwise Heavy Subject.......2007-08-20
I stumbled upon this book by accident, and once I started reading it, I couldn't put the it down! The Baby Trail conveys a very realistic and compelling account of the challenges faced by those seeking fertility treatment. The writing style was superb and Sinead's sense of humor was brilliant. For such a hard-core subject, Sinead enlightens and educates her audience. She effectively illuminates the character's vulnerability, fear, helplessness, and humanity. Clearly, the author did her research!! The conclusion was liberating because she transcended society's expectations. A very worthwhile read. Highly recommended for men whose female partner's are seeking fertility treatment. Bravo! Clap, clap, clap!
Flip Side of the Coin.......2007-05-17
Lately I have become obsessed with baby books and mother novels :) not because I want to be a mommy anytime soon but just because lately this has been my focus.
At any rate this book showed the other side of fertility. When I first picked up the book I thought it was gonna be about the character "Emma" trying to become pregnant and then becoming pregnant and sharing the horror of pregnancy and the joys of motherhood.
Well it turns out that the lovely "Emma" is quite healthy along with her husband James but cannot become pregnant. She does the ovulation kits and after a year of trying visits a fertility specialist who proceeds to give her fertility drugs and perform and IVF. To no avail the lovely "Emma and James" are not able to procreate.
It's a really good "fictional" novel on the ups and downs of trying to start a family...
Enjoy!
The baby trail isn't always paved in gold..........2007-04-17
'THE BABY TRAIL'is about a woman who drives herself, husband, friends and family crazy when her plan to conceive isn't as easy as she'd originally imagined. In an impressive debut Sinead Moriarty deilvers a serious subject matter that many women today face and handels it with dignity, wit and compassion.
I was lucky enough to have been lent this book by a friend who also raved about it and I cannot recommend it enough whether you are in the same boat as Emma or not. I certianly have never had any problems with fertility, however, I could completely relate to what Emma was going through and I am sure that in her shoes I would feel exactly the same way. Granted a some of her behavior may have been over the top (but this is supposed to be a bit funny) however, I thought most was pretty spot on and for those who found Emma annoying have probably never been a hormonal wreck before! 5 Stars for 'THE BABY TRAIL' and Sinead Moriarty and I cannot wait for my copy of the sequel to arive in the mail!
If you are going throught it . . . it is a safe read.......2006-10-02
It was a pleasure to read a story that is so true that people NOT going thru it will review it as she is crazy. Yes, she may seem that way - but you would be too.
I found it a wonderful and honest surprise that like life, she does NOT end up with a perfect pink line on a stick - something we all long for.
If this is something you are currently dealing with it felt safe reading it, I hoped along with her and laughed when it felt good. She isn't perfect and it is ok.
Thinking about hitting the baby trail?.......2006-09-19
So many days I see girls pushing prams looking way too young to be mums, breeding the world with kids who will probably never know their fathers cos the mothers were too out of it to catch his name.
On the other hand there are so many would-be mothers out there desperately trying to get pregnant, and find out it isn't so easy as coming off the pill. This book addresses all those issues.
Like many following in the very successful footsteps of Marian Keyes, every other new romance author is now Irish. Marian Keyes is the success story here - some of the others will fall by the wayside, cos they're simply following a tried and tested route. Too many authors struggle to get recognised cos their work is "different", while these style of books are everywhere. Bookshops these days are saturated by them.
The Baby Trail does deal with a complicated issue, which is quite often in the news, but fails, due to a demanding, immature woman trying to get pregnant. Readers will get easily get irritated with Emma's character, as she demands stuff from her husband that he can't provide in the middle of an important meeting; kicks children; cries at the drop of a hat, and pushes away her friends who can get pregnant. By the end of the book, I was well and truly annoyed with her, and worst of all, the book ended on a weird note - could Sinead Moriarty be perhaps planning a sequel?
I would recommend this book, but only for the less easily annoyed of the readers out there. Pick it up cheap if you can, or don't buy it all. Stick to Marian Keyes, or something DIFFERENT.
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Not Bad.......2004-09-13
The much-balyhooed Wildcats revamp by Scott Lodbell and Travis Charest was quickly forgotten when Charest's deadline woes made the book notoriously late. However, once fans look beyond that particluar issue, they will find a very entertaining story with excellent art (and not only by Charest). Although this isn't as good as the title would later become under Joe Casey, it's a more than adequate introduction to the updated Wildcats world and a perfect jumping on point for non-WildC.A.T.s fans.
Rip Off.......2000-11-03
Normally, I wouldn't have considered buying a WildCATS book, but since this particular one advertised that it had art by Travis Charest, I couldn't resist. The guy it talented!
Of course, it turns out only two and a half out of five (or is it six?) of the stories in the book are drawn by 'ol Travis, the rest being done by fill in artists who have no where nears the same level of talent.
That, and if you actually bother to read the stories you'll find that the compilation seems pointless as nothing is resolved.
Charest Compilation.......2000-08-18
Travis Charest's Run on WildCats. Awesome art.
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- lots of action in this one !
- Classic indeed!
- Han Chewy and bollux adventures continue.
- Han Chewy and bollux adventures continue.
- Enjoyable Star Wars fiction
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Han Solo's Revenge
BRIAN DALEY
Manufacturer: Del Rey
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0345284755
Release Date: 1979-10-12 |
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RISKY BUSINESS
Lured by a profitable venture, freighter captain Han Solo took the job--no questions asked. It was after he and Chewbacca made planetfall and picked up their living cargo that they discovered they were committing a capital crime. And the punishment for slave trading was mandatory execution.
Thanks to quick thinking by Blue Max, the computer-partner to Han's 'droid Bollux, Solo and Chewbacca rapidly turned the tables on their notorious employers. But that left them out of work--and figuring someone still owed them ten thousand credits.
So Han decided to keep his scheduled meeting with the trader's shadowy leader. But the person he met didn't fit his idea of a slave trader.
With good reason. And the truth meant real trouble . . .
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lots of action in this one !.......2007-07-03
if anything, I'd say this book wasn't quite long enough..the ending seemed to get wrapped up rather hastily in the last several pages of the book...but there'se a couple twists and turns in there that make it worthit..
but there's plenty of action to be had in this book. Han playing the reluctant hero yet AGAIN, under the guise of just getting paid..but man, does he hate those slavers ;)
some great action sequences that any star wars fan should be sure to enjoy.
Classic indeed!.......2005-05-06
First released in the 1970s, Daley gave hungry "Star Wars" fans a much-needed fix between the release of Lucas' flicks, and with the notable exceptions of AC Crispin and Tim Zahn, has been the only writer to really do justice to the original trilogy. Daley gives us a look into Han and Chewbacca's early smuggling career and takes them from caper to caper and thrill to thrill in the Corporate Sector Authority (nice change from the Empire, by the way).
"Revenge" the second book in the trilogy, sends Han and Chewie battling slavers with his droid friends Bollux and Blue Max (who are waaayyyy more interesting and likeable than Threepio ever was!). Perhaps the best thing about these novels is that there's none of the whining that pervades so much of the later saga, and Han's wisecracking one-liners are priceless. Daley definitely had a feel for Our Hero, and gives readers a breathless adventure that's more than worthy of the Lucas originals. A pity these never made it to film. Highly recommend!
Han Chewy and bollux adventures continue........2003-07-23
This is the second story of the Brian Daley trilogy. This is a book I found at a second hand store in the mid-90's. I had already started reading the Expanded Universe books that began with the Zahn trilogy. Brian also did the radio dramas but sadly died before seeing the expanded universe explode into what it has become. He is the first EU novelists.
My favorite of the Daley trilogy is Han solo's Revenge. Second is HS at Stars End (which is also available is a Dark horse comic). Lost legacy is my least favorite of the three stories, but it is still a good read.
My wife found the entire trilogy in a garage at a garage sale in about 1995. In 1997 came the AC Crispen Han Solo trilogy. I was wary how two trilogies could span the same time frame. To my surprise and delight, crispen did a great job wrting around the Solo trip to the corporate sector, thus incorporating Daleys work into official EUdoom.
One vacation I read in order the first 2 AC Crispen novels of the Han solo trilogy. Then I read the daley trilogy and concluded with the last of the Crispen trilogy, Rebel Dawn.
Han Chewy and bollux adventures continue........2003-07-23
This is the second story of the Brian Daley trilogy. This is a book I found at a second hand store in the mid-90's. I had already started reading the Expanded Universe books that began with the Zahn trilogy. Brian also did the radio dramas but sadly died before seeing the expanded universe explode into what it has become. He is the first EU novelists.
My favorite of the Daley trilogy is Han solo's Revenge. Second is HS at Stars End (which is also available is a Dark horse comic). Lost legacy is my least favorite of the three stories, but it is still a good read.
My wife found the entire trilogy in a garage at a garage sale in about 1995. In 1997 came the AC Crispen Han Solo trilogy. I was wary how two trilogies could span the same time frame. To my surprise and delight, crispen did a great job wrting around the Solo trip to the corporate sector, thus incorporating Daleys work into official EUdoom.
One vacation I read in order the first 2 AC Crispen novels of the Han solo trilogy. Then I read the daley trilogy and concluded with the last of the Crispen trilogy, Rebel Dawn.
Enjoyable Star Wars fiction.......2003-06-02
This looks into how Han Solo operates and provides some explanation as to why he is how he is in the films. Set between the other two Daley HS books.
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HAN SOLOS REVENGE
DALEY
Manufacturer: SPHERE
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ASIN: B000S60FCE |
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Han Solos Revenge
Brian Daley
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ASIN: B000UE5U6A |
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Han Solos Revenge
Brian Daley
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ASIN: B000SHNJDA |
Book Description
"An indispensable cookbook."
- Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue
When Paula Wolfert's The Cooking of Southwest France was first published in 1983, it became an instant classic. This award-winning book was praised by critics, chefs, and home cooks alike as the ultimate source of recipes and information about a legendary style of cooking. Wolfert's recipes for cassoulet and confit literally changed the American culinary scene. Confit, now ubiquitous on restaurant menus, was rarely served in the United States before Wolfert presented it.
Now, twenty-plus years later, Wolfert has completely revised her groundbreaking book. In this new edition, you'll find sixty additional recipes - thirty totally new recipes, along with thirty updated recipes from Wolfert's other books. Recipes from the original edition have been revised to account for current tastes and newly available ingredients; some have been dropped.
You will find superb classic recipes for cassoulet, sauce perigueux, salmon rillettes, and beef daube; new and revised recipes for ragouts, soups, desserts, and more; and, of course, numerous recipes for the most exemplary of all southwest French ingredients - duck - including the traditional method for duck confit plus two new, easier variations.
Other recipes include such gems as Chestnut and Cepe Soup With Walnuts, magnificent lusty Oxtail Daube, mouthwatering Steamed Mussels With Ham, Shallots, and Garlic, as well as Poached Chicken Breast, Auvergne-Style, and the simple yet sublime Potatoes Baked in Sea Salt. You'll also find delicious desserts such as Batter Cake With Fresh Pears From the Correze, and Prune and Armagnac Ice Cream.
Each recipe incorporates what the French call a truc, a unique touch that makes the finished dish truly extraordinary. Evocative new food photographs, including sixteen pages in full color, now accompany the text.
Connecting the 200 great recipes is Wolfert's unique vision of Southwest France. In sharply etched scenes peopled by local characters ranging from canny peasant women to world-famous master chefs, she captures the region's living traditions and passion for good food.
Gascony, the Perigord, Bordeaux, and the Basque country all come alive in these pages. This revised edition of The Cooking of Southwest France is truly another Wolfert classic in its own right.
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It's Just Like Being in the South of France!.......2007-01-12
After visiting the southwest of France 3 months ago, I fell in love with their rustic cuisine. This book, the recipes & writtings, is just like reliving our fabulous 10 day vacation. This is a true gem, I can't wait to use my first recipe from it!
Great.......2006-11-05
Since we just returned fro southwest France I wanted to find some receipes to make our favorite foods. The Cooking of Southwest France did just that. Great receipes and simple to make.
The Best of the Sud-ouest in English.......2006-02-20
A few additional remarks besides the excellent review by Mr. Marold:
Even if you are not up to cooking these great dishes, this book is one of the most useful books if you plan on going there. Wolfert covers many specific places you may want to visit. She locates some important restaurants and chefs (even in San Francisco). She tells you what to eat in many cities. She tells you about things you may want to bring home, including some of the specialized pots which are very hard to obtain here; one exception is the U.S. maker of the pot on the cover. You can order the "Diable Charentais" by Googling and selecting the translation of the potter's page. Wolfert shows you how much diversity there is within short distances across this region.
For the cook as well as the traveler, no book in English is so perceptive, comprehensive and accurate. With attention, you can reproduce "the truth". She is also helpful to those of us who cannot assemble the authentic equipment and ingredients.
The importance of this new edition is the current information on people and places, and especially on the sources now accessible from home.
Newer, but not always better.......2006-01-02
I would join with the other reviewers here in recognizing this work as a tour de force in the field of authentic, regional French cooking. I have owned the earlier edition for a number of years and have used it to produce successful, one-of-a-kind results. I would also echo the comments of others in warning prospective purchasers not to expect any simple, quick, or uninvolved recipes in this book. Many main courses require several steps of preparation spread over more than one day. It is also true that many of the recipes still call for ingredients that are hardly on the shelves of the average (or even above average) pantry (e.g., ventreche, piment d'Espelette, rendered duck or goose fat, etc.). Having said all that, there are some wonderful recipes here. However, the changes worked into this new edition sometimes leave me baffled. To take one example, both the old and new editions include a recipe for duck "ham," an air-cured preparation that, when it works, produces a prosciutto-like result. The substantive difference between the old and new versions of this recipe call for the cook to "shave off the duck skin [from the duck breast that is used to make the ham] leaving the fat underneath intact." This really calls for an illustration or at least some additional explanation, in my opinion, because the skin and subcutaneous fat on the duck breast I examined after reading this instrucion are, as I expected would be the case, as one. Note that in the earlier version of this recipe, the skin was left intact. I've found a few more such amendments to recipes that didn't seem to make things any clearer (not to mention easier), and while I cannot say that there aren't any recipes that have been improved by revision, they haven't jumped out at me yet. A few of the new recipes look interesting, but they rise to the same level of challenge as all of the other recipes in this collection always have. Still, for those willing to invest a great deal of time and attention in the preparation of authentic Southwestern French cuisine, this is THE text in English.
A great rework.......2005-12-10
A revised edition of the 1983 book, this is a very authentic tome of sw french cuisine. Paula is one of our greatest cookbook authors, and you cannot go wrong with a single one of her books. The only draw back to this book is that not every recipe is 'doable' to the average home cook, as some ingredients (mainly animal fats) are very hard to find.
Book Description
The return of a classic--long-lived and treasured by all who love the good, considered life.
Boldly confessing her prejudices and her passions, M. F. K. Fisher has written a mouth-watering, soul-satisfying book composed of seventeen chapters with over 140 recipes. Whether recalling forbidden fruits from her childhood (like mashed potatoes with catsup), her mother's legendary mustard pickles, or a Caribbean bride singing about peas and rice, each description is flavored with the eloquence, warmth, and wit that has become her hallmark. Here are dishes for every course of every meal, from the simplest to the most esoteric: tidbits, appetizers, breads, pastries, fish, fowl, meats, soups, vegetables, desserts, and casseroles.
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A memoir and cookbook both.......2000-08-17
"With Bold Knife and Fork" was the last book of culinary and writing great M.F.K. Fisher to focus solely on food. This book is a wonderful collection of recipes, with an especially interesting section on vegetables; and also contains humorous and moving anecdotes, written in excellent, finished prose. Only M.F.K. Fisher can make eating mashed potatoes with ketchup sound like a religious ritual; or make you laugh when discussing how a romance came to an end when a snoopy, ill-informed potential partner ruined a sauce for a dinner she was making. This is a terrific book for diehard Fisher fans, but also a very good, intelligent, and amusing cookbook in its own right.
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Terrific Resource for the Scrapbooker!.......2001-01-24
If you are interested in both scrapbooking and rubber stamping, this book will greatly assist in combining the two. The techniques are clearly explained and are illustrated in full color. Just leafing through the book, I saw two techniques I'm going to try right away! Also included are "Story Starters" to help get ideas for journaling and lots of tips. One thing I really liked was the examples of borders with goofs; that really helps put the reader at ease with their own work! This book will be extremely helpful to the beginner and to the more advanced scrapbooker/stamper looking for new ideas. I highly recommend this one!
Book Description
There's never been a better time for scrapbookers to incorporate stamping into their pages. It's fun and easy with the fresh ideas and techniques found here, including:
-Stamping with and on a variety of creative materials--everything from watercolor paint and chalk to clay, metal and wood -Inspiring page ideas that use stamping for borders, corners, frames, titles, backgrounds and embellishments -Creative techniques for using clear embossing inks, heat embossing, various colorants and more -Clear, step-by-step instructions for all types of stamping techniques
Both scrapbookers and stampers will find something in this fundamental guide to use in their very next project!
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Rubber Stamp Album
Joni K. Miller
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing
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ASIN: 0894800450 |
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The Rubber Stamp Album.......2000-05-12
The definitive authority on rubber stamps and stamping - some of the resources are out of date, but the spirit of stamping was born of this book and continues to inspire 22 years later, even out of print.
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The Rubberstampmadness Album of Art
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This oversized soft cover book features over 2 decades of Rubber Stamp art. Beautiful color pictures.
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This book is really fun!.......1998-03-19
This book has what a lot of children's craft books don't have--and that is, it's experience-based. Real kids are making these projects--not adults. The results that are shown are what happens when kids make things--not adults or experienced artists. The photographs show the kids actually doing the steps, so you can see their looks of concentration or delight. This book is also unique because it teaches more than how to make something. Most of the projects are based in specific ethnic groups' crafts so the author has presented information about the origins or the cultural significance of the project--presented in a "gee whiz" sort of way that kids can relate to. Often there's a song included, rounding out the experience. Another thing I like is that the projects are worth doing and worth having when you're done. Real moccasins you can actually wear, for example. Or things you can eat --there are some great recipes. And almost all of them have the all important giggle-factor that makes them so much fun for kids. As a grownup, I intend to use this book for myself--I want to try the cowboy braided belt and the moccasins and the sugar diorama eggs. It also makes a great donation to a school's art program or after-school program because the steps are so easy to follow, and the materials are so readily available (she urges recycling). Seems to fit a lot of age groups (including the baby boomer...)
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Exercise of Arms: Warfare in the Netherlands, 1568-1648 (History of Warfare, V. 1)
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers
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Modos de Dibujar 6 - Secretos de Taller
Hans Daucher
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The Age and Stage of George L. Fox, 1825-1877
Laurence Senelick
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