the stay at home bookworm

"I mean, if I thought the world would want to know about old Jiko, I'd post her stories in a blog, but actually, I stopped ...

"There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns - small intuitive flashes, when you know ...

  "I don't want to be a tourist in my own country."

Paradise Under Glass: The Education of a Indoor Gardener Ruth Kassinger's book centers around the project of building a conserva...

I've never eaten oysters and only tried lobster once (and don't remember it very well to tell the thruth, so this might seem like...

I was a latecomer to the web sensation site - Design*Sponge . However, to my credit, I loved it at first glance. Grace Bonney's book ...

Clare Turlay Newberry(1903-1970) is a wonderful artist I recently discovered. She became famous for her cat illustrations and TIME Magazine ...

Just recently I found out about two great artists. One is Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) a visual chronicler of British countryside whose ...

Not much going on as far as reading is concerned... Read "O Comboio Nocturno para Lisboa"(Night Train to Lisbon) as the year ended...

Although I waited anxiously to read Sy Montgomery ’s book “Birdology: Adventures With Hip Hop Parrots, Cantankerous Cassowaries, Crabby Crow...

I had been meaning to read “Kraken: The Curious, Exciting and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid” ever since I first saw it. But it after ...

I guess "Feel Better Little Buddy: Animals with casts" is primarily aimed at children who have broken a leg or arm and need reassu...

What’s it like being an old woman? Well, in the benefit of full disclosure the answer to that question is not the primary reason why I got “...

Another beautiful book of illustrations by Sara Midda.

A quaint little book, “Bird-keeping and Birdcages: A History” was published in 1972, and is probably more interesting for its black and whit...

I own a small, modern imitation of an antique clock which in I bought in my early teens because I loved the illustration it features: a ride...

January His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman Once Upon a Time in the North - Philip Pullman Into the beautiful North – Luis Alberto Urrea Th...

The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice Tell you what: I don’t know when I’ll be eating sushi again. No, I didn’t learn an...

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food For non-American readers the revelations in “The Fortune Cookie Chron...

“Leviathan” is a whale of a book. Ah. Obvious I know, but it is four hundred something pages long. Impossible not to think Philip Hoare was ...

Why do we think of hedgehogs as “cute”? I mean, they are not soft or cuddly and they rather tend to smell (since I have never met one face t...

Timothy; or; Notes of an Abject Reptile: a novel – Verlyn Klinkenborg Lonesome George: The Life and Times of a Conservation Icon – Henry Nic...

Hounding the Pavement (A Dog Walker Mystery) – Judi McCoy The Missing Ink (A Tattoo Shop Mystery) – Karen E. Olson One Bad Apple (An Orchard...

Gardening tips, recipes and lore, beautifully illustrated.