❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...'s bookshelf: get-from-the-library en-US Sat, 23 Apr 2022 10:02:11 -0700 60 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...'s bookshelf: get-from-the-library 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg How to Stop Time 45152372 "She smiled a soft, troubled smile and I felt the whole world slipping away, and I wanted to slip with it, to go wherever she was going... I had existed whole years without her, but that was all it had been. An existence. A book with no words."

Tom Hazard has just moved back to London, his old home, to settle down and become a high school history teacher. And on his first day at school, he meets a captivating French teacher at his school who seems fascinated by him. But Tom has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life.

Unfortunately for Tom, the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society's watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance, the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present.

How to Stop Time tells a love story across the ages--and for the ages--about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. It is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch.]]> 339 Matt Haig 0525522891 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 3.78 2018 How to Stop Time
author: Matt Haig
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/04/23
shelves: currently-reading, get-from-the-library, character-development, cathartic, immortals, re-examine-life
review:

]]> Beastly Bones (Jackaby, #2) 24001095 I've found very little about private detective R. F. Jackaby to be standard in the time I've known him. Working as his assistant tends to call for a somewhat flexible relationship with reality . . .

In 1892, New Fiddleham, New England, things are never quite what they seem, especially when Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer, R. F. Jackaby, are called upon to investigate the supernatural. First, members of a particularly vicious species of shape-shifters disguise themselves as a litter of kittens. A day later, their owner is found murdered, with a single mysterious puncture wound to her neck. Then, in nearby Gad's Valley, dinosaur bones from a recent dig go missing, and an unidentifiable beast attacks animals and people, leaving their mangled bodies behind. Policeman Charlie Cane, exiled from New Fiddleham to the valley, calls on Abigail for help, and soon Abigail and Jackaby are on the hunt for a thief, a monster, and a murderer.]]> 296 William Ritter 1616203544 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 3
We saw Abigail becoming more of her own person and learning to do what makes her happy. In the next book, I think we need to see Abigail become more outspoken and opinionated. Because everyone in this series is so reserved, it is lacking somewhat. In order to balance Jackaby's unflappability and Charlie's politeness, we need some more fire from Abigail.

I will be watching for the next story since it looks like we'll be following the story of companion ghost Jenny. She truly intrigues me.]]> 3.93 2015 Beastly Bones (Jackaby, #2)
author: William Ritter
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2015
rating: 3
read at: 2015/10/30
date added: 2020/05/01
shelves: can-t-wait-dying-to-read, sherlockian-sherlockesque, get-from-the-library, series, archeology, country-living, ghosts, murder-mystery, mystery, racing-the-clock, small-town, werewolves, currently-reading
review:
This installment was still fun, but not as great as the first one. The author continues to have great imagination for mystical creatures. I enjoyed the ones introduced this time.

We saw Abigail becoming more of her own person and learning to do what makes her happy. In the next book, I think we need to see Abigail become more outspoken and opinionated. Because everyone in this series is so reserved, it is lacking somewhat. In order to balance Jackaby's unflappability and Charlie's politeness, we need some more fire from Abigail.

I will be watching for the next story since it looks like we'll be following the story of companion ghost Jenny. She truly intrigues me.
]]> Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet 27015411
Kitty Hayward and her mother arrive by steamer from South Africa. When Kitty’s mother takes ill, the hotel doctor sends Kitty to Manhattan to fetch some special medicine. But when she returns, Kitty’s mother has vanished. The desk clerk tells Kitty she is at the wrong hotel. The doctor says he’s never seen her although, she notices, he is unable to look her in the eye.

Alone in a strange country, Kitty meets the denizens of Magruder’s Curiosity Cabinet. A relic of a darker, dirtier era, Magruder's is home to a forlorn flea circus, a handful of disgruntled Unusuals, and a mad Uzbek scientist. Magruder’s Unusuals take Kitty under their wing and resolve to find out what happened to her mother.

But as a plague spreads, Coney Island is placed under quarantine. The gang at Magruder’s finds that a missing mother is the least of their problems, as the once-glamorous resort town is abandoned to the freaks, anarchists, and madmen.

** Not a Children's or YA book **]]> 368 H.P. Wood 1492631485 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 get-from-the-library, to-read 3.71 2016 Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet
author: H.P. Wood
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2019/01/03
shelves: get-from-the-library, to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History]]> 18941808 tundra, of a super-virus; to the building of the rocket that made possible space travel). Here Is Where is thoroughly entertaining, but it’s also a profound reminder that the places we pass by often harbor amazing secrets and that there are countless other astonishing stories still out there, waiting to be found.Look for Andrew's new book,My Fellow Soldiers.ձ> 514 Andrew Carroll ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 4.11 2010 Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History
author: Andrew Carroll
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2010
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2019/01/03
shelves: history, nonfiction, get-from-the-library, learn-something-new-every-day, to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank: History's Unknown Chapters]]> 27840849
In When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank , the second installment in his outrageously entertaining series, History’s Unknown Chapters, Giles Milton shows his customary historical flair as he delves into the little-known stories from history, like when Stalin was actually assassinated with poison by one of his inner circle; the Russian scientist, dubbed the “Red Frankenstein,� who attempted to produce a human-ape hybrid through ethically dubious means; the family who survived thirty-eight days at sea with almost no water or supplies after their ship was destroyed by a killer whale; or the plot that served as a template for 9/11 in which four Algerian terrorists attempted to hijack a plane and fly it into the Eiffel Tower.]]> 272 Giles Milton 125007875X ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 3.86 2016 When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank: History's Unknown Chapters
author: Giles Milton
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/12/18
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library, history, learn-something-new-every-day
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Fascinating Footnotes from History]]> 26586824 'Giles Milton is a man who can take an event from history and make it come alive . . . an inspiration for those of us who believe that history can be exciting and entertaining' Matthew Redhead, The Times

Did you know that Hitler took cocaine? That Stalin robbed a bank? That Charlie Chaplin's corpse was filched and held to ransom?

Giles Milton is a master of historical in his characteristically engaging prose, Fascinating Footnotes From History details one hundred of the quirkiest historical nuggets; eye-stretching stories that read like fiction but are one hundred per cent fact.

There is Hiroo Onoda, the lone Japanese soldier still fighting the Second World War in 1974; Agatha Christie, who mysteriously disappeared for eleven days in 1926; and Werner Franz, a cabin boy on the Hindenburg who lived to tell the tale when it was engulfed in flames in 1937. Fascinating Footnotes From History also answers who ate the last dodo, who really killed Rasputin and why Sergeant Stubby had four legs.

Peopled with a gallery of spies, rogues, cannibals, adventurers and slaves, and spanning twenty centuries and six continents, Giles Milton's impeccably researched footnotes shed light on some of the most infamous stories and most flamboyant and colourful characters (and animals) from history.

(Previoulsy published in four individual When Hitler Took Cocaine, When Stalin Robbed a Bank, When Lenin Lost His Brain and When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep.)

]]> 400 Giles Milton 1473609062 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 3.77 2015 Fascinating Footnotes from History
author: Giles Milton
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/12/18
shelves: get-from-the-library, history, learn-something-new-every-day
review:

]]> <![CDATA[When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History's Unknown Chapters]]> 25663540 Obscure and addictive true tales from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles Milton

The first installment in Giles Milton's outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters: colorful and accessible, intelligent and illuminating, Milton shows his customary historical flair as he delves into the little-known stories from the past.

There's the cook aboard the Titanic, who pickled himself with whiskey and survived in the icy seas where most everyone else died. There's the man who survived the atomic bomb in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And there's many, many more.

Covering everything from adventure, war, murder and slavery to espionage, including the stories of the female Robinson Crusoe, Hitler's final hours, Japan's deadly balloon bomb and the emperor of the United States, these tales deserve to be told.]]> 261 Giles Milton 1250078776 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 3.67 2016 When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History's Unknown Chapters
author: Giles Milton
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/12/18
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library, history, learn-something-new-every-day
review:

]]> The Lincoln Funeral 24998668 The Civil War burdened the United States economically, politically, morally, and spiritually, as nothing has before or since. The overwhelming cataclysm, which would have wrecked a lesser nation, ended with Robert E. Lee’s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. Just as the weary citizens on both sides let themselves contemplate peacetime pursuits came one final blow. On April 14, a Marylander and outlandish white supremacist assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Horrified northerners had vengeful thoughts. But vengeance would have to wait. The martyred president, contrary to the wishes of his devastated wife and family, would need an appropriate send-off, a funeral to rival that of an emperor. It would be the first American national funeral and possibly the most spectacular of all.
In The Lincoln Funeral: An Illustrated History, artist and historian Michael Leavy presents this solemn, regal, and romantic event in contemporary photographs and drawings, some rarely reproduced. What emerges is a marvel of rapidly formed committees, highly polished trains, and clicking telegraph keys. Cities and towns went into a frenzy to out-do each other in honoring the fallen president. Trains and telegraphs drove the event, producing a near national hysteria that resulted in police having to restrain enormous crowds across the Northeast and Midwest. But this collection of illustrations demonstrates that the Lincoln funeral was not wholly about pageantry. The slow railroad procession and attending ceremonies to Illinois were a collective expression of intractable grief. People wanted somehow to keep “Old Abe� alive—the man who only a month earlier had been despised by as many as revered him. With his death the entire country understood how much he meant to the nation.]]> 176 Michael Leavy 1594162271 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 4.00 2015 The Lincoln Funeral
author: Michael Leavy
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/09/17
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History]]> 25622837 Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly" of aspect came to mean so much to us.


The very roughness of Lincoln's appearance made him seem all the more common, one of us—as did his sense of humor about his own awkward physical nature. Nineteenth-century African Americans felt deep affection for their "liberator" as a "homely" man who did not hold himself apart. During Reconstruction, Southerners felt a nostalgia for the humility of Lincoln, whom they envisioned as a "conciliator." Later, teachers glorified Lincoln as a symbol of nationhood that would appeal to poor immigrants. Monument makers focused not only on the man’s gigantic body but also on his nationalist efforts to save the Union, downplaying his emancipation of the slaves.


Among both black and white liberals in the 1960s and 1970s, Lincoln was derided or fell out of fashion. More recently, Lincoln has once again been embodied (as both idealist and pragmatist, unafraid of conflict and transcending it) by outstanding historians, by self-identified Lincolnian president Barack Obama, and by actor Daniel Day-Lewis—all keeping Lincoln alive in a body of memory that speaks volumes about our nation.]]> 432 Richard Wightman Fox 0393352633 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 3.93 2015 Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
author: Richard Wightman Fox
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/09/17
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Midcentury Personality Study]]> 26150646 248 Pierluigi Serraino 1580934250 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 4.24 2016 The Creative Architect: Inside the Great Midcentury Personality Study
author: Pierluigi Serraino
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/09/15
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library, history, human-behavior, learn-something-new-every-day, nonfiction, psychology-sociology, science
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Integration Issues]]> 881046 399 Lindsey Biel 014303488X ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 3 4.17 2005 Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Integration Issues
author: Lindsey Biel
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2016/06/13
shelves: get-from-the-library, skimmed-it, instructional, parenting, psychology-sociology, how-to, human-behavior
review:

]]> The Day the Crayons Came Home 23310161 Duncan's Crayons are back with yet another wild range of colorful demands!

Boy, Duncan's crayons sure are a colorful bunch of characters. Having soothed the hurt feelings of one group who threatened to quit, Duncan now faces a whole new group of crayons asking to be rescued!

From Maroon Crayon, who was lost beneath the sofa cushions and then broken in two after dad sat on him; to Turquoise, whose head is now stuck to one of Duncan's stinky socks after they ended up in the dryer together—each crayon has a woeful tale to tell and a plea to be brought home to the crayon box.

Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers have combined once more to create a companion book every bit as funny and as kid-friendly as their #1 bestselling 'The Day the Crayons Quit' (2013). It's sure to delight children and inspire refrigerator door paintings for generations to come!

Age Rating: 3-8+ / Lexile Rating AD550L
Edition MSRP: $18⁹⁹ USA / $21⁹⁹ CAN (ISBN 978-0-399-17275-5)
Manufactured in China]]> 48 Drew Daywalt 0399172750 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 4 4.40 2015 The Day the Crayons Came Home
author: Drew Daywalt
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2016/06/13
shelves: get-from-the-library, children-s-picture-book
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Murder & Mayhem in Portland, Oregon]]> 17300468 128 J.D. Chandler 1609499255 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 3.41 2013 Murder & Mayhem in Portland, Oregon
author: J.D. Chandler
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.41
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/04/07
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library, history, portland-or-oregon-setting, crime
review:

]]> Vivian Maier, Photographer 11254902 61 Jeffrey A. Goldstein ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 4.65 2011 Vivian Maier, Photographer
author: Jeffrey A. Goldstein
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.65
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/02/10
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits 17316572 Celebrated by The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair,The New York Times,American Photo,Town and Country,and countless other publications, the life's work of recently discovered street photographer Vivian Maier has captivated the world and spawned comparisons to photography's masters including Diane Arbus, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Walker Evans, and Weegee among others.

Now, for the first time,Vivian Maier: Self-Portrait presents the fullest and most intimate portrait of theartist herself with approximately 60 never-before-seen black-and-white and color self-portraits culled fromthe extensive Maloof archive, the preeminent collector of the work of Vivian Maier and editor of the highly acclaimedVivian Maier: Street Photographer—bringing us closer to the reclusive artist than ever before.

]]> 120 Vivian Maier 1576876624 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 get-from-the-library, to-read 4.51 2013 Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits
author: Vivian Maier
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.51
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/02/10
shelves: get-from-the-library, to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found]]> 22535554 288 Vivian Maier 0062378686 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 4.51 2014 Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found
author: Vivian Maier
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.51
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/02/10
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows]]> 15815110 288 Vivian Maier 0978545095 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 4.47 2012 Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows
author: Vivian Maier
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2016/02/10
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities]]> 6106482
Menacing botanical illustrations and splendidly ghastly drawings create a fascinating portrait of the evildoers that may be lurking in your own backyard. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, alarm, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.]]> 236 Amy Stewart 1565126831 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 3
Some interesting things I learned:

The Castor Bean plant with its infamous ingredient ricin is what was used in the famous KGB umbrella poisoning.


The seeds are poisonous and indigenous to Asia and Africa. Victims get fever, trouble speaking, and vomit blood. Castor oil has the ricin removed and is often used for its laxative effect.

Coyotillo shrub berries are quite sinister.

This plant is found in Texas and causes paralysis and death, but symptoms don't start until days or weeks later.

The houseplant, Jerusalem cherry is beautiful.

However, all parts of the plant cause weakness, drowsiness, nausea and vomiting, and harm the heart.

Deadly nightshade, also known as atropa belladonna ("beautiful woman").


All parts of the plant are poisonous. Even rubbing against it can blister skin. However, we also use it for several medicines � atropine, scopolamine, donnatol, and hyoscyamine. The plant can cause rapid heart rate, confusion, hallucinations, seizures. Italian women made mild tinctures of it to dilate pupils because they thought it made them more attractive.

Some foods that humans consume have parts that are poisonous or poisonous if not prepared correctly.

CORN of all things.

If eaten as a primary staple, can cause severe niacin deficiency. If eaten with lime it becomes safe. Typically, if you're eating a well rounded diet with plenty of other foods, you won't have a problem. Symptoms include dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea, and even death.

Cashews –if the nut or a person touches the shell, it will cause a bad rash. Traditionally it is steamed open and makes them partially cooked, which makes them safe.


Green potato skin � basically if it’s green and eaten raw in large enough quantities, it can cause burning and GI symptoms, coma, and death.

Potato is a part of the nightshade family. The green happens when exposed to light and creates high solanine levels. However, this isn't typically an issue, since most people cook their potatoes and don’t eat a ton of the green flesh all at once.

The Habanero Chile:
“Strangely, the active ingredient in hot peppers, capsaicin, does not actually burn. It stimulates nerve endings to send a signal to the brain that mimics a burning sensation. Capsaicin does not dissolve in water, so grabbing for the water jug to put out the fire in your mouth is useless. However, it will bind to a fat like butter, milk, or cheese. A good stiff drink is also in order, as the alcohol works as a solvent.�

“But nothing could protect you against the power of Blair’s 16 Million Reserve, a so-called pharmaceutical grade hot sauce made of pure capsaicin extract. A tiny one-milliliter bottle of the clear potion sells for $199 and comes with a warning that it must be used “for experimental/display purposes only� and never as a flavoring for food.�



Jimson Weed was found on Jamestown Island in 1607. Looking for food, settlers tried to add Jimson Weed to their diet.

Death came by delusions, convulsions, and respiratory failure. 70 years later, British soldiers arrived and settlers secretly added it to their food. While they didn’t die, they went crazy for 11 days which gave settlers the upper hand. People started calling it the Jamestown weed and over time, became Jimson weed.

Giant Hogweed causes severe blisters that worsen when exposed to sunlight. It's scary because I’d never heard of it, and it’s in the Washington/Oregon area of the United States, and in Canada. It sort of looks like a huge Queen Anne's Lace.


If you're really into poisonous plants, you can visit the Alnwick poison gardens in Northumberland, England. If you go, let me know.

]]> 3.83 2009 Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
author: Amy Stewart
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at: 2015/07/04
date added: 2015/11/28
shelves: get-from-the-library, nonfiction, learn-something-new-every-day, reference
review:
Interesting read, but I really would have preferred color photos in lieu of the illustrations.

Some interesting things I learned:

The Castor Bean plant with its infamous ingredient ricin is what was used in the famous KGB umbrella poisoning.


The seeds are poisonous and indigenous to Asia and Africa. Victims get fever, trouble speaking, and vomit blood. Castor oil has the ricin removed and is often used for its laxative effect.

Coyotillo shrub berries are quite sinister.

This plant is found in Texas and causes paralysis and death, but symptoms don't start until days or weeks later.

The houseplant, Jerusalem cherry is beautiful.

However, all parts of the plant cause weakness, drowsiness, nausea and vomiting, and harm the heart.

Deadly nightshade, also known as atropa belladonna ("beautiful woman").


All parts of the plant are poisonous. Even rubbing against it can blister skin. However, we also use it for several medicines � atropine, scopolamine, donnatol, and hyoscyamine. The plant can cause rapid heart rate, confusion, hallucinations, seizures. Italian women made mild tinctures of it to dilate pupils because they thought it made them more attractive.

Some foods that humans consume have parts that are poisonous or poisonous if not prepared correctly.

CORN of all things.

If eaten as a primary staple, can cause severe niacin deficiency. If eaten with lime it becomes safe. Typically, if you're eating a well rounded diet with plenty of other foods, you won't have a problem. Symptoms include dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea, and even death.

Cashews –if the nut or a person touches the shell, it will cause a bad rash. Traditionally it is steamed open and makes them partially cooked, which makes them safe.


Green potato skin � basically if it’s green and eaten raw in large enough quantities, it can cause burning and GI symptoms, coma, and death.

Potato is a part of the nightshade family. The green happens when exposed to light and creates high solanine levels. However, this isn't typically an issue, since most people cook their potatoes and don’t eat a ton of the green flesh all at once.

The Habanero Chile:
“Strangely, the active ingredient in hot peppers, capsaicin, does not actually burn. It stimulates nerve endings to send a signal to the brain that mimics a burning sensation. Capsaicin does not dissolve in water, so grabbing for the water jug to put out the fire in your mouth is useless. However, it will bind to a fat like butter, milk, or cheese. A good stiff drink is also in order, as the alcohol works as a solvent.�

“But nothing could protect you against the power of Blair’s 16 Million Reserve, a so-called pharmaceutical grade hot sauce made of pure capsaicin extract. A tiny one-milliliter bottle of the clear potion sells for $199 and comes with a warning that it must be used “for experimental/display purposes only� and never as a flavoring for food.�



Jimson Weed was found on Jamestown Island in 1607. Looking for food, settlers tried to add Jimson Weed to their diet.

Death came by delusions, convulsions, and respiratory failure. 70 years later, British soldiers arrived and settlers secretly added it to their food. While they didn’t die, they went crazy for 11 days which gave settlers the upper hand. People started calling it the Jamestown weed and over time, became Jimson weed.

Giant Hogweed causes severe blisters that worsen when exposed to sunlight. It's scary because I’d never heard of it, and it’s in the Washington/Oregon area of the United States, and in Canada. It sort of looks like a huge Queen Anne's Lace.


If you're really into poisonous plants, you can visit the Alnwick poison gardens in Northumberland, England. If you go, let me know.


]]> iZombie, Vol. 2: uVampire 10726086
In uVAMPIRE, Gwen dines on the grey matter of a person who knew her as a child � and things quickly get complicated. Meanwhile, ghost-girl Ellie learns a few tricks from Amon the mummy; Spot the were-terrier goes to the comics shop and meets someone from Gwen’s past, the mad scientist Galatea engages in a bit of grave-robbing; and the monster-hunters tackle the town’s vampire problem once and for all.]]> 168 Chris Roberson 1401232965 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 3 Another fun installment! 3.69 2011 iZombie, Vol. 2: uVampire
author: Chris Roberson
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at: 2015/10/26
date added: 2015/11/02
shelves: get-from-the-library, series, comic-graphic-novel, ghosts, girls-kicking-ass, great-illustrations, graphic-novel, immortals, mythological-creatures, running-from-the-bad-guys, special-abilities-powers, small-town, vampires, villains, werewolves, zombies
review:
Another fun installment!
]]> An Einstein Encyclopedia 26331547 376 Alice Calaprice 1400873363 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 3.60 2015 An Einstein Encyclopedia
author: Alice Calaprice
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/10/31
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World]]> 8493612
Gwendolyn “Gwen� Dylan is a 20-something gravedigger in an eco-friendly cemetery. Once a month she must eat a human brain to keep from losing her memories, but in the process she becomes consumed with the thoughts and personality of the dead person � until she eats her next brain. She sets out to fulfill the dead person’s last request, solve a crime or right a wrong.

Our zombie girl detective is joined by a radical supporting cast: her best friend Eleanor, who happens to be a swinging �60s ghost, a posse of paintball blasting vampires, a smitten were-dog and a hot but demented mummy.

Collects issues #1-5]]> 144 Chris Roberson 1401229654 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 3
When I found out it was very loosely based on a graphic novel series with the same name I put a hold on them at my library.

I enjoyed this one and plan to read the rest. It doesn't really compare in plot to the TV series, but it's still a fun read.

Since I'm dreading writing reviews this week, I shall give a few images of the novel and then recommend Anne's fan-f'ing-tastic review here. Because really, I should pay her to do my reviews. :)





That last image reminds me of Homer.
]]> 3.65 2010 iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World
author: Chris Roberson
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2015/10/15
date added: 2015/10/17
shelves: zombies, graphic-novel, get-from-the-library, after-death, fresh-idea, monster-hunting, portland-or-oregon-setting
review:
I recently stumbled across the iZombie TV series and it's hella fun.

When I found out it was very loosely based on a graphic novel series with the same name I put a hold on them at my library.

I enjoyed this one and plan to read the rest. It doesn't really compare in plot to the TV series, but it's still a fun read.

Since I'm dreading writing reviews this week, I shall give a few images of the novel and then recommend Anne's fan-f'ing-tastic review here. Because really, I should pay her to do my reviews. :)





That last image reminds me of Homer.

]]> <![CDATA[Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir]]> 12868761 318 Jenny Lawson 0399159010 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 3.89 2012 Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
author: Jenny Lawson
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/10/10
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> Extraordinary Chickens 1006590 112 Stephen Green-Armytage 0810933438 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 4.22 2000 Extraordinary Chickens
author: Stephen Green-Armytage
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2000
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/10/04
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Andy & Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show]]> 25111090
Andy Griffith and Don Knotts met on Broadway in the 1950s. When Andy went to Hollywood to film a TV pilot about a small-town sheriff, Don called to ask if the sheriff could use a deputy. The comedic synergy between Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife ignited The Andy Griffith Show, elevating a folksy sitcom into a timeless study of human friendship, as potent off the screen as on. Andy and Don -- fellow Southerners born into poverty and raised among scofflaws, bullies, and drunks -- captured the hearts of Americans across the country as they rocked lazily on the front porch, meditating about the simple pleasure of a bottle of pop.

But behind this sleepy, small-town charm, de Vise's exclusive reporting reveals explosions of violent temper, bouts of crippling neurosis, and all-too-human struggles with the temptations of fame. Andy and Don chronicles unspoken rivalries, passionate affairs, unrequited loves, and friendships lost and regained. Although Andy and Don ended their Mayberry partnership in 1965, they remained best friends for the next half-century, with Andy visiting Don at his death bed.

Written by Don Knotts's brother-in-law and featuring extensive unpublished interviews with those closest to both men, Andy and Don is the definitive literary work on the legacy of The Andy Griffith Show and a provocative and an entertaining read about two of America's most enduring stars.]]> 320 Daniel de Visé 1476747733 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 4.08 2015 Andy & Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show
author: Daniel de Visé
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/09/20
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> Monkey Portraits 9093 112 Jill Greenberg 0821257552 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 4.44 2006 Monkey Portraits
author: Jill Greenberg
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2006
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/09/13
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[This Is What You Just Put in Your Mouth?: From Eggnog to Beef Jerky, the Surprising Secrets]]> 22238370 is it?

All of these pressing questions and more are answered in This Is What You Just Put In Your Mouth? Based on his popular Wired magazine column "What's Inside," Patrick Di Justo takes a cold, hard, and incredibly funny look at the shocking, disgusting, and often dumbfounding ingredients found in everyday products, from Cool Whip and Tide Pods to Spam and Play-Doh. He also shares the madcap stories of his extensive research, including tracking down a reclusive condiment heir, partnering with a cop to get his hands on heroin, and getting tight-lipped snack-food execs to talk. Along the way, he schools us on product histories, label decoding, and the highfalutin chemistry concepts behind everything from Midol to Hostess fruit pies.

Packed with facts you're going to want to share immediately, this is info-tainment at its best—and most fun!—which will have you giving your shampoo the side-eye and Doritos a double take, and make you the know-it-all in line at the grocery store.ձ> 251 Patrick DiJusto 0804139881 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 4
Di Justo also clarifies his intent in the introduction:
"If you're looking for shocking stories do the gigantic corporate conspiracy to poison America through it's processed foods, you're reading the wrong book. This book's purpose isn't to scare you, or to enrage you, or to get you to e-mail your congressman...I always approached each product with nothing but curiosity and a desire to have that curiosity satisfied."

Kind of refreshing not to get a book with scare tactics, skewed or partial information, and bias.

Part 1: This is what you put in your mouth
Here's a few:

Cigarettes
� Castoreum - "Commonly found in the secretions of a beaver's castor glands (located near the animal's genitals), this substance when processed gives your cigarette a sweet odor and smokey flavor. In 1991, Phillip Morris used just eight pounds of the pungent stuff to make four hundred million cigarettes-proving that a little genital secretion goes a long way."
breakfast club
� Isovaleric Acid - "Imparts a cheesy or sweaty foot smell to cigarettes, which makes absolutely no sense from a marketing standpoint. This stuff is also a pheromone found in the vaginal secretions of rhesus monkeys and is responsible for stimulating sexual response in males."
monkey grin

Coffee
� 2-Ethylphenol - "This substance creates a tarlike, medicinal odor in your morning wake-up. Too much (in the range of one gram for every kg of body weight, far more than you'll get from a cup of coffee) makes rats stagger around heir cages like the town drunk on New Year's Eve. It's also a component of cockroach alarm pheromones, chemical signals that warn the colony of danger."
drunk rat

� Putrescine - "Ever wonder what makes spoiled meat so poisonous? Here you go. Ptomaines like putrescine are produced when E.coli bacteria in the meat break down amino acids. Naturally present in coffee beans, it smells, as you might guess from the name, like Satan's outhouse."
spray

Listerine
� On this one, I wanted to share a portion of his backstory..."Telling people they're not supposed to drink mouthwash is a failure right from the star...So the federal government decided to poison the stuff. Never mind how alcohol itself is a potion; we're talking about adding extra poison in addition to the alcohol that's already in Listerine." (44 proof by the way..) "The point of these chemicals is to "denature" the alcohol, make you sick to your stomach and throw up. The idea is that you'll never be able to drink enough Listerine to get drunk on without throwing it all up first. Of course, I had to try this...I poured myself one capful, about the size of a large shot glass. The first thing I felt was a burning sensation in my chest, exactly the way the American Heart Association describes the early symptoms of a heart attack..." So after an incredibly long night of his body rebelling against him, he didn't throw up.
listerine

Southern Comfort Egg Nog
� In this back story, he tells how he found that although illegal to color the nog so as too look like more egg product is in it, virtually ALL egg nog companies do. He went so far as to contact someone in the FDA about it. After the FDA man did some digging, the author listened in on the line. Finally the man came back on the phone and said, "Young fella, you there?..You said you're a reporter? Well, I'll tell you, if you write the up and get it out there, it's going to have a big impact...You said that the story's coming out around Thanksgiving?...you could conceivably be responsible for getting the FDA to remove all eggnog from store shelves just before Christmas."

Author's response in the book to readers? "Ho-leee shiiiiiiiiiiiit." Luckily he found out more to the story soon after. 30 years ago when this was made law, there was such an outcry from the nog folks, that the FDA said they would put a hold on enforcing this law until a public hearing could be made...that public hearing never happened. Thus it is still in limbo today, with no conclusion on the horizon.

Other items in this section included: A-1 Steak Sauce, Purina Alpo dog food, Beano, Chocolate Cherry Cordials, Doritos, Easy Cheese Aerosol Spread, Enfamil Baby Formula, Enzyte (male enhancement med), Hostess Lemon Fruit Pie, Hot Pockets, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Midol, Orbit White Gum, PowerBar ProteinPlus, Red Bull, Red Wine, Spam with Bacon, Tap Water, Vita Coco Coconut Water.

Part2: This is what you don't put in your mouth
One of my favorite sections was
K-Y Yours+Mine Couples Lubricants for obvious reasons.
� So Propylene Gycol is in both. "Yes, yes, yes, you're spreading brake fluid on your special region. But it's the good kind of brake fluid: practically nontoxic..."
HERS has
� Methyl Salicylate "Wintergreen oil, which produces a warm, almost burning sensation,...by combining these two ingredients, you're essentially coating the Feminine Mystery with a layer of Icy Hot. Hot and tingly might be just how you want to be on V-Day, but be careful; this stuff can cause temporary numbness and swelling of the tongue.
tongue

What does HIS have? All manner of sweet things: Honey, glycerin, sucralose...I guess we know who this application is really for...

Preparation H - cause you you can never have enough butt jokes.
� Shark Liver Oil - oily substance with huge amounts of vitamins A and D3. "Of course, this doesn't begin to touch on the whole moral question of whether or not you should have a deepwater shark killed just to put out the fire in your ass. In the tube, shark liver oil serves as an emulsifier to keep things mixed. In the anal canal, it serves as a barrier against contamination and as a lubricant to cut down on friction and keep things, well, moving along smoothly."

� Methylparaben this is an antifungal, but it "degrades easily in UV light, forming oxides that can damage skin, sort like skin...Good thing we use this stuff where the sun doesn't shine."

Other items in this section: Axe deodorant, colored-flame artificial logs, contact lens cleaner, mascara, matches, fabric softener, Febreze, Fix-a-flat (his personal story is HILARIOUS and involves the crotch of his pants getting it's flat fixed), flu shot, gasoline, shampoo, heroin, hair color, Neutrogena lotion, Noxzema, Play-Doh, Lemon Scent Raid, Rain-X, Planting mix, Tide Pods, golf balls, and diaper cream.

What a great Saturday read!]]> 3.40 2015 This Is What You Just Put in Your Mouth?: From Eggnog to Beef Jerky, the Surprising Secrets
author: Patrick DiJusto
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.40
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2015/08/29
date added: 2015/09/06
shelves: get-from-the-library, learn-something-new-every-day, fresh-idea, nonfiction, people-ought-to-know, science
review:
This was a great combination of humor, history, science, and information. Essentially, the author investigates an item for interesting ingredients. He explains what it is used for, how it was derived, and other various hilarious tidbits. Each "thing" has about 10 ingredients he delves into with a small paragraph for each one. This is sometimes followed with a page or so "backstory" about why, how, or who he talked to for information.

Di Justo also clarifies his intent in the introduction:
"If you're looking for shocking stories do the gigantic corporate conspiracy to poison America through it's processed foods, you're reading the wrong book. This book's purpose isn't to scare you, or to enrage you, or to get you to e-mail your congressman...I always approached each product with nothing but curiosity and a desire to have that curiosity satisfied."

Kind of refreshing not to get a book with scare tactics, skewed or partial information, and bias.

Part 1: This is what you put in your mouth
Here's a few:

Cigarettes
� Castoreum - "Commonly found in the secretions of a beaver's castor glands (located near the animal's genitals), this substance when processed gives your cigarette a sweet odor and smokey flavor. In 1991, Phillip Morris used just eight pounds of the pungent stuff to make four hundred million cigarettes-proving that a little genital secretion goes a long way."
breakfast club
� Isovaleric Acid - "Imparts a cheesy or sweaty foot smell to cigarettes, which makes absolutely no sense from a marketing standpoint. This stuff is also a pheromone found in the vaginal secretions of rhesus monkeys and is responsible for stimulating sexual response in males."
monkey grin

Coffee
� 2-Ethylphenol - "This substance creates a tarlike, medicinal odor in your morning wake-up. Too much (in the range of one gram for every kg of body weight, far more than you'll get from a cup of coffee) makes rats stagger around heir cages like the town drunk on New Year's Eve. It's also a component of cockroach alarm pheromones, chemical signals that warn the colony of danger."
drunk rat

� Putrescine - "Ever wonder what makes spoiled meat so poisonous? Here you go. Ptomaines like putrescine are produced when E.coli bacteria in the meat break down amino acids. Naturally present in coffee beans, it smells, as you might guess from the name, like Satan's outhouse."
spray

Listerine
� On this one, I wanted to share a portion of his backstory..."Telling people they're not supposed to drink mouthwash is a failure right from the star...So the federal government decided to poison the stuff. Never mind how alcohol itself is a potion; we're talking about adding extra poison in addition to the alcohol that's already in Listerine." (44 proof by the way..) "The point of these chemicals is to "denature" the alcohol, make you sick to your stomach and throw up. The idea is that you'll never be able to drink enough Listerine to get drunk on without throwing it all up first. Of course, I had to try this...I poured myself one capful, about the size of a large shot glass. The first thing I felt was a burning sensation in my chest, exactly the way the American Heart Association describes the early symptoms of a heart attack..." So after an incredibly long night of his body rebelling against him, he didn't throw up.
listerine

Southern Comfort Egg Nog
� In this back story, he tells how he found that although illegal to color the nog so as too look like more egg product is in it, virtually ALL egg nog companies do. He went so far as to contact someone in the FDA about it. After the FDA man did some digging, the author listened in on the line. Finally the man came back on the phone and said, "Young fella, you there?..You said you're a reporter? Well, I'll tell you, if you write the up and get it out there, it's going to have a big impact...You said that the story's coming out around Thanksgiving?...you could conceivably be responsible for getting the FDA to remove all eggnog from store shelves just before Christmas."

Author's response in the book to readers? "Ho-leee shiiiiiiiiiiiit." Luckily he found out more to the story soon after. 30 years ago when this was made law, there was such an outcry from the nog folks, that the FDA said they would put a hold on enforcing this law until a public hearing could be made...that public hearing never happened. Thus it is still in limbo today, with no conclusion on the horizon.

Other items in this section included: A-1 Steak Sauce, Purina Alpo dog food, Beano, Chocolate Cherry Cordials, Doritos, Easy Cheese Aerosol Spread, Enfamil Baby Formula, Enzyte (male enhancement med), Hostess Lemon Fruit Pie, Hot Pockets, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Midol, Orbit White Gum, PowerBar ProteinPlus, Red Bull, Red Wine, Spam with Bacon, Tap Water, Vita Coco Coconut Water.

Part2: This is what you don't put in your mouth
One of my favorite sections was
K-Y Yours+Mine Couples Lubricants for obvious reasons.
� So Propylene Gycol is in both. "Yes, yes, yes, you're spreading brake fluid on your special region. But it's the good kind of brake fluid: practically nontoxic..."
HERS has
� Methyl Salicylate "Wintergreen oil, which produces a warm, almost burning sensation,...by combining these two ingredients, you're essentially coating the Feminine Mystery with a layer of Icy Hot. Hot and tingly might be just how you want to be on V-Day, but be careful; this stuff can cause temporary numbness and swelling of the tongue.
tongue

What does HIS have? All manner of sweet things: Honey, glycerin, sucralose...I guess we know who this application is really for...

Preparation H - cause you you can never have enough butt jokes.
� Shark Liver Oil - oily substance with huge amounts of vitamins A and D3. "Of course, this doesn't begin to touch on the whole moral question of whether or not you should have a deepwater shark killed just to put out the fire in your ass. In the tube, shark liver oil serves as an emulsifier to keep things mixed. In the anal canal, it serves as a barrier against contamination and as a lubricant to cut down on friction and keep things, well, moving along smoothly."

� Methylparaben this is an antifungal, but it "degrades easily in UV light, forming oxides that can damage skin, sort like skin...Good thing we use this stuff where the sun doesn't shine."

Other items in this section: Axe deodorant, colored-flame artificial logs, contact lens cleaner, mascara, matches, fabric softener, Febreze, Fix-a-flat (his personal story is HILARIOUS and involves the crotch of his pants getting it's flat fixed), flu shot, gasoline, shampoo, heroin, hair color, Neutrogena lotion, Noxzema, Play-Doh, Lemon Scent Raid, Rain-X, Planting mix, Tide Pods, golf balls, and diaper cream.

What a great Saturday read!
]]> <![CDATA[Why Does the Other Line Always Move Faster?: The Myths and Misery, Secrets and Psychology of Waiting in Line]]> 24693020 why is it that the other line always moves faster?!?). This smart, quirky, wide-ranging book (the perfect conversation starter) considers the surprising science and psychology—and the sheer misery—of the well-ordered line. On the way, it takes us from boot camp (where the first lesson is to teach recruits how to stand rigidly in line) to the underground bunker beneath Disneyland’s Cinderella Castle (home of the world’s most advanced, state-of-the-art queue management technologies); from the 2011 riots in London (where rioters were observed patiently taking their turns when looting shops), to the National Voluntary Wait-in-Line days in the People’s Republic of China (to help train their non-queuing populace to wait in line like Westerners in advance of the 2008 Olympics).

Citing sources ranging from Harvard Business School professors to Seinfeld, the book comes back to one underlying truth: it’s not about the time you spend waiting, but how the circumstances of the wait affect your perception of time. In other words, the other line always moves faster because you’re not in it.
ձ> 208 David Andrews 0761181229 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 3.34 2015 Why Does the Other Line Always Move Faster?: The Myths and Misery, Secrets and Psychology of Waiting in Line
author: David Andrews
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.34
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/08/12
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Carrot Purple and Other Curious Stories of the Food We Eat]]> 26014409
The story of the carrot is just one of the hidden tales this book recounts. Through portraits of a wide range of foods we eat and love, from artichokes to strawberries, The Carrot Purple traces the path of foods from obscurity to familiarity. Joel Denker explores how these edible plants were, in diverse settings, invested with new meaning. They acquired not only culinary significance but also ceremonial, medicinal, and economic importance. Foods were variously savored, revered, and reviled.

This entertaining history will enhance the reader’s appreciation of a wide array of foods we take for granted. From the carrot to the cabbage, from cinnamon to coffee, from the peanut to the pistachio, the plants, beans, nuts, and spices we eat have little-known stories that are unearthed and served here with relish.]]> 264 Joel S. Denker 1442248858 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 3.36 2015 The Carrot Purple and Other Curious Stories of the Food We Eat
author: Joel S. Denker
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.36
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/08/01
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[14,000 Things to Be Happy About]]> 25238507

Something to be happy about: This mesmerizing bestseller is revised and updated. Originally published 25 years ago (happy anniversary!) from a list that Barbara Ann Kipfer started making as a child, it’s the book that marries obsession with happiness. And it now has 4,000 fresh and more current reasons to be happy:

Rabbit tracks in the snow.
Kiteboarding and kitesurfing.
Caramel gelato.
Scoring super-high on a Scrabble turn.
Babies burping.
Summer storms.
White cupcakes with multicolored sprinkles.
Big red barns.
20 minutes all to yourself.

No opinions, no explanations, no asides, no footnotes, editorializing, or proselytizing. Just the simple premise of a list of things that make us smile. With its chunky shape, striking black-and-white cover, and 100 whimsical illustrations by Pierre Le-Tan, the new 14,000 Things is an irresistible catalog of good thoughts completely updated to reflect today’s world—and an uplifting gift for people of all moods and all ages.

]]> 557 Barbara Ann Kipfer ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 3.53 1990 14,000 Things to Be Happy About
author: Barbara Ann Kipfer
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.53
book published: 1990
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/07/28
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> I Hate Everything 8841773 I hate that I still make fun of bald people.
I hate karma.

Amateur haters, step aside. Time to learn what it "really" means to be miserable. Because this guy hates "every"thing. From hating the little irks that happen now and then (like the water that squirts out of the mustard bottle) to hating the unfortunate realities of today's world (like that superheroes don't exist . . . but villains do), Matthew DiBenedetti tells readers how he "really" feels.

With such a variety of miserable musings, you'll find something to laugh at--and someone to loathe with--in this book.

]]> 400 Matthew DiBenedetti 1440506388 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 4 get-from-the-library, humor Hate

Each page has one to a few sentences of things he hates. I love that they are loosely connected sometimes as if a stream of consciousness hate rant. Fun pen drawing accompany each page to accentuate each hate.
I hate that I have to keep changing my password. I hate that I have to keep my password written down next to my computer.

I hate that I breathe the same air as everyone else.

I hate that Willy Wonka still freaks me out.

I hate water that tastes like metal. I hate when water only dribbles out of public drinking fountains. I hate using the lower kiddie drinking fountain. I hate coming in contact with anything that is for public use.

I hate that I have fat clothes. I hate that I'm wearing my fat clothes.

Definitely a fun read. Just know that if you're in the room with someone, you may as well warn them you are going to basically read the entirety of the book to them. And if they hate that...tough.]]> 3.86 2010 I Hate Everything
author: Matthew DiBenedetti
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2015/04/04
date added: 2015/07/15
shelves: get-from-the-library, humor
review:
Hilarious book. So many times I agreed fully with his hate rants.
Hate

Each page has one to a few sentences of things he hates. I love that they are loosely connected sometimes as if a stream of consciousness hate rant. Fun pen drawing accompany each page to accentuate each hate.
I hate that I have to keep changing my password. I hate that I have to keep my password written down next to my computer.

I hate that I breathe the same air as everyone else.

I hate that Willy Wonka still freaks me out.

I hate water that tastes like metal. I hate when water only dribbles out of public drinking fountains. I hate using the lower kiddie drinking fountain. I hate coming in contact with anything that is for public use.

I hate that I have fat clothes. I hate that I'm wearing my fat clothes.

Definitely a fun read. Just know that if you're in the room with someone, you may as well warn them you are going to basically read the entirety of the book to them. And if they hate that...tough.
]]> Food: A Love Story 20764282 "What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here's why: I'm a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I'd highly recommend that you do not read his book."

Bacon. McDonalds. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale. Stand-up comedian and author Jim Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American diet ("choking on bacon is like getting murdered by your lover") and decrying the worst offenders ("kale is the early morning of foods"). Fans flocked to his New York Times bestselling book Dad is Fat to hear him riff on fatherhood but now, in his second book, he will give them what they really crave--hundreds of pages of his thoughts on all things culinary(ish). Insights such as: why he believes coconut water was invented to get people to stop drinking coconut water, why pretzel bread is #3 on his most important inventions of humankind (behind the wheel and the computer), and the answer to the age-old question "which animal is more delicious: the pig, the cow, or the bacon cheeseburger?"]]> 6 Jim Gaffigan 0804192235 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 4
The first half was the best for me. There were sections in the middle that were just, eh. But then he'd get on a topic that was hilarious and I would be cracking up.

He riffs on every kind of food, and every kind of food related activity out there. Nothing is left unexplored.

I loved the section on the naming of "Cheese Whiz". What about Cheese Squirts or Cheese Runs?

Reflections on the tiny ketchup packet... (Not for individual resale? really?) And the fact that fast food places may give you two packets and treat you like you're stealing from their private stash when you ask for more.
supplements

Kid you not, after making his joke about the doughnut sandwich, it was actually made.
they really made it!
thanksgiving
vinegar
bacon
mcdonalds
kale
southern]]> 3.65 2014 Food: A Love Story
author: Jim Gaffigan
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2015/04/18
date added: 2015/07/15
shelves: humor, get-from-the-library, laugh-out-loud
review:
I have to say that getting this in audio, read by Jim Gaffigan is the way to go. I popped those CD's in while I was in the car and it was a blast. I've loved this comedian for such a long time. His standup is better than his books, but these are great too.

The first half was the best for me. There were sections in the middle that were just, eh. But then he'd get on a topic that was hilarious and I would be cracking up.

He riffs on every kind of food, and every kind of food related activity out there. Nothing is left unexplored.

I loved the section on the naming of "Cheese Whiz". What about Cheese Squirts or Cheese Runs?

Reflections on the tiny ketchup packet... (Not for individual resale? really?) And the fact that fast food places may give you two packets and treat you like you're stealing from their private stash when you ask for more.
supplements

Kid you not, after making his joke about the doughnut sandwich, it was actually made.
they really made it!
thanksgiving
vinegar
bacon
mcdonalds
kale
southern
]]> Creature 1994507 300 Andrew Zuckerman 0811861538 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 5 Stunning animal photography book - great for any age.
It's a fun book to pick up at the library and peruse by yourself or with your kiddos.
giraffe 2 pages

This book is huge! It is large in dimensions as well as being 300 pages! My photos can't capture the detail on each page (crappy cell phone).

Every page has a blank white background so that the photo pops off the page. Sometimes there's only one picture on the spread, and other times there is a couple.
squirrel
chicken
owl

Each creature gets 1-3 pages dedicated to it. Each picture has it's own personality. Sometimes it's silly, sometimes awe-inspiring, sometimes you get lost in the up close details of the creature.
elephant close up
dove

There are some common animals, fish, and insects.
toad
panther
fish

There are some odd ones as well. This one looks like a mix between a gremlin, monkey, lemur, and an Ewok to me...
WTF?

The end of the book has a little epilogue from the photographer. There are pages with thumbnails of each animal along with more information about the name and classification of the animal.

Fun big book sure to keep you inspired by the wild animal kingdom.

]]> 4.50 2007 Creature
author: Andrew Zuckerman
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 2015/06/27
date added: 2015/07/15
shelves: get-from-the-library, animals, photography
review:
Stunning animal photography book - great for any age.
It's a fun book to pick up at the library and peruse by yourself or with your kiddos.
giraffe 2 pages

This book is huge! It is large in dimensions as well as being 300 pages! My photos can't capture the detail on each page (crappy cell phone).

Every page has a blank white background so that the photo pops off the page. Sometimes there's only one picture on the spread, and other times there is a couple.
squirrel
chicken
owl

Each creature gets 1-3 pages dedicated to it. Each picture has it's own personality. Sometimes it's silly, sometimes awe-inspiring, sometimes you get lost in the up close details of the creature.
elephant close up
dove

There are some common animals, fish, and insects.
toad
panther
fish

There are some odd ones as well. This one looks like a mix between a gremlin, monkey, lemur, and an Ewok to me...
WTF?

The end of the book has a little epilogue from the photographer. There are pages with thumbnails of each animal along with more information about the name and classification of the animal.

Fun big book sure to keep you inspired by the wild animal kingdom.


]]> <![CDATA[Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction]]> 25708855
Caleb Kaltenbach was raised by LGBT parents, marched in gay pride parades as a youngster, and experienced firsthand the hatred and bitterness of some Christians toward his family.

But then Caleb surprised everyone, including himself, by becoming a Christian…and a pastor.

Very few issues in Christianity are as divisive as the acceptance of the LGBT community in the church. As a pastor and as a person with beloved family members living a gay lifestyle, Caleb had to face this issue with courage and grace.

Messy Grace shows us that Jesus’s command to “love your neighbor as yourself� doesn’t have an exception clause for a gay “neighbor”—or for that matter, any other “neighbor� we might find it hard to relate to. Jesus was able to love these people and yet still hold on to his beliefs. So can you. Even when it’s messy.


“Messy Grace is an important contribution to the conversation about sexual identity for churches and leaders. Caleb's story is surprising and unique, and he weaves it together compellingly. He states his views clearly, leaves room for disagreement, and champions love no matter where you are in this conversation.�
—Jud Wilhite, Sr. Pastor, Central Christian Church]]> 224 Caleb Kaltenbach 1601427360 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 4.22 2015 Messy Grace: How a Pastor with Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Without Sacrificing Conviction
author: Caleb Kaltenbach
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/06/25
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Talking to Crazy: How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life]]> 25644973 Let’s face it, we all know people who are irrational. No matter how hard you try to reason with them, it never works. So what’s the solution? How do you talk to someone who’s out of control? What can you do with a boss who bullies, a spouse who yells, or a friend who frequently bursts into tears?

In his book, Just Listen, Mark Goulston shared his bestselling formula for getting through to the resistant people in your life. Now, in his breakthrough new book Talking to Crazy, he brings his communication magic to the most difficult group of all—the downright irrational.

As a psychiatrist, Goulston has seen his share of crazy and he knows from experience that you can’t simply argue it away. The key to handling irrational people is to learn to lean into the crazy—to empathize with it. That radically changes the dynamic and transforms you from a threat into an ally. Talking to Crazy explains this counterintuitive Sanity Cycle and reveals:

� Why people act the way they do
� How instinctive responses can exacerbate the situation—and what to do instead
� When to confront a problem and when to walk away
� How to use a range of proven techniques including Time Travel, the Fish-bowl, and the Belly Roll
� And much more

You can’t reason with unreasonable people—but you can reach them. This powerful and practical book shows you how.

]]> 272 Mark Goulston 0814436366 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 3.84 2015 Talking to Crazy: How to Deal with the Irrational and Impossible People in Your Life
author: Mark Goulston
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/06/25
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Andre the Giant: Life and Legend]]> 18465496 The Princess Bride and a heroic pro-wrestling figure. He was a normal guy who'd been dealt an extraordinary hand in life. At his peak, he weighed 500 pounds and stood nearly seven and a half feet tall. But the huge stature that made his fame also signed his death warrant.

Box Brown brings his great talents as a cartoonist and biographer to this phenomenal new graphic novel. Drawing from historical records about Andre's life as well as a wealth of anecdotes from his colleagues in the wrestling world, including Hulk Hogan, and his film co-stars (Billy Crystal, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, etc), Brown has created in Andre the Giant, the first substantive biography of one of the twentieth century's most recognizable figures.]]> 240 Box Brown 1596438517 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 3 As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride .

This graphic novel/biography examines Andre's life from about the age of 12 until his death. Andre, like everyone has many things that made him great as well as plenty of things that he could have done better.

He was usually very endearing and tended to refer to everyone as, "Boss". When filming Princess Bride, he kept Robin Wright warm by gently placing his hand on her head (he generated a LOT of heat).
Robin cold
Since the drawing doesn't really do justice to how this might have looked, remember Andre's hand on Cary Elwes' during the movie?
Andre's hand on Cary's head

His acromegaly and the damage from wrestling put quite the stress on his body. He had surgery on his back at one time, and they had to think outside the box for everything - from the stretcher, to the surgical instruments/hardware, to how much anesthesia he needed (the massive amounts of alcohol he could drink was legendary, so I can only imagine the amount of anesthesia that was needed).
surgery
He spent other times in the hospital for various other joint/bone issues and heart issues related to his condition.
with nurse

He did plenty of flying for all of his wrestling. I don't know how he "held it" on those long flights...
flight

I didn't know that Andre had a daughter named Robin. It seems as though he would have liked more time with her, but between his career and the strained relationship with her mother, and likely other factors, it just didn't happen. I wonder whether working with Robin Wright made him think of his own daughter since they shared the same name.
Andre and Robin

Andre remains in so many people's hearts for the Princess Bride. In a few years, when my boys are old enough, they will watch Princess Bride, and he will be remembered by a whole new generation.


Rest peacefully big guy.
dream of large women ]]> 3.67 2014 Andre the Giant: Life and Legend
author: Box Brown
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2015/06/12
date added: 2015/06/12
shelves: get-from-the-library, biographies, comics, learn-something-new-every-day
review:
This was recommended to me after reading and reviewing As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride .

This graphic novel/biography examines Andre's life from about the age of 12 until his death. Andre, like everyone has many things that made him great as well as plenty of things that he could have done better.

He was usually very endearing and tended to refer to everyone as, "Boss". When filming Princess Bride, he kept Robin Wright warm by gently placing his hand on her head (he generated a LOT of heat).
Robin cold
Since the drawing doesn't really do justice to how this might have looked, remember Andre's hand on Cary Elwes' during the movie?
Andre's hand on Cary's head

His acromegaly and the damage from wrestling put quite the stress on his body. He had surgery on his back at one time, and they had to think outside the box for everything - from the stretcher, to the surgical instruments/hardware, to how much anesthesia he needed (the massive amounts of alcohol he could drink was legendary, so I can only imagine the amount of anesthesia that was needed).
surgery
He spent other times in the hospital for various other joint/bone issues and heart issues related to his condition.
with nurse

He did plenty of flying for all of his wrestling. I don't know how he "held it" on those long flights...
flight

I didn't know that Andre had a daughter named Robin. It seems as though he would have liked more time with her, but between his career and the strained relationship with her mother, and likely other factors, it just didn't happen. I wonder whether working with Robin Wright made him think of his own daughter since they shared the same name.
Andre and Robin

Andre remains in so many people's hearts for the Princess Bride. In a few years, when my boys are old enough, they will watch Princess Bride, and he will be remembered by a whole new generation.


Rest peacefully big guy.
dream of large women
]]> Twain's End 25111073 Mrs. Poe comes a fictionalized imagining of the personal life of America’s most iconic writer: Mark Twain.

In March of 1909, Mark Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding of his private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, and his business manager, Ralph Ashcroft. One month later, he fired both. He proceeded to write a ferocious 429-page rant about the pair, calling Isabel “a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded and salacious slut pining for seduction.� Twain and his daughter, Clara Clemens, then slandered Isabel in the newspapers, erasing her nearly seven years of devoted service to their family. How did Lyon go from being the beloved secretary who ran Twain’s life to a woman he was determined to destroy?

In Twain’s End, Lynn Cullen reimagines the tangled relationships between Twain, Lyon, and Ashcroft, as well as the little-known love triangle between Helen Keller, her teacher Anne Sullivan Macy, and Anne’s husband, John Macy, which comes to light during their visit to Twain’s Connecticut home in 1909. Add to the party a furious Clara Clemens, smarting from her own failed love affair, and carefully kept veneers shatter.

Based on Isabel Lyon’s extant diary, Twain’s writings and letters, and events in Twain’s boyhood that may have altered his ability to love, Twain’s End explores this real-life tale of doomed love.]]> 352 Lynn Cullen 1476758964 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 3.51 2015 Twain's End
author: Lynn Cullen
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/06/11
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures]]> 14868863
Noted science writer Virginia Morell explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising and moving exploration into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals.

Animal Wise takes us on a dazzling odyssey into the inner world of animals, from ants to elephants to wolves, and from sharp-shooting archerfish to pods of dolphins that rumble like rival street gangs. Morell probes the moral and ethical dilemmas of recognizing that even “lesser animals� have cognitive abilities such as memory, feelings, personality, and self-awareness--traits that many in the twentieth century felt were unique to human beings.

By standing behaviorism on its head, Morell brings the world of nature brilliantly alive in a nuanced, deeply felt appreciation of the human-animal bond, and she shares her admiration for the men and women who have simultaneously chipped away at what we think makes us distinctive while offering a glimpse of where our own abilities come from.]]> 291 Virginia Morell 0307461440 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 4.09 2013 Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
author: Virginia Morell
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/05/30
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library, animals, learn-something-new-every-day
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood]]> 22749877
Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna’s hummingbird with a head and throat cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral 130 feet in the air, dive 60 miles per hour in a courtship display, hover, and fly backward. When he arrived in rehab caked in road grime, he was so badly injured that he could barely perch. But Terry Masear, one of the busiest hummingbird rehabbers in the country, was determined to save this damaged bird, who seemed oddly familiar. During the four months that Terry worked with Gabriel, she took in 160 hummingbirds, from a miniature nestling rescued by a bulldog and a fledgling trapped inside a skydiving wind tunnel at Universal CityWalk, to Pepper, a female Anna’s injured on a film set. In their time together, Pepper and Gabriel form a special bond and, together, with Terry’s help, learn to fly again. Woven around Gabriel’s and Pepper’s stories are those of other colorful birds in this personal narrative filled with the science and magic surrounding these fascinating creatures.
ձ> 320 Terry Masear 0544416031 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 4.23 2015 Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood
author: Terry Masear
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/04/30
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Magical World of Moss Gardening]]> 22750524
Moss is an extraordinary plant—it grows without roots, flowers, or stems. Despite being overlooked, in many ways, moss is it provides year-round color, excels in difficult climates, prevents soil erosion, and resists pests and disease. In The Magical World of Moss Gardening , bryophyte expert Annie Martin reveals how moss can be used in stunning, eco-friendly spaces. The beautifully illustrated guide includes basics on designing and planting a moss garden, andan inspiring tour of the most magical public and private moss gardens throughout the country.]]> 240 Annie Martin 1604695609 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 4.08 2015 The Magical World of Moss Gardening
author: Annie Martin
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/04/30
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[1,001 Ways to Live in the Moment]]> 6926432 384 Barbara Ann Kipfer 0811871088 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 4.25 2009 1,001 Ways to Live in the Moment
author: Barbara Ann Kipfer
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2009
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/04/20
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Betty and Friends: My Life at the Zoo]]> 11890803 304 Betty White 0399157549 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 3
Most of the 304 pages are pictures, and the sections of her writing are a paragraph to a page or two. She even had a smattering of humor throughout the book.]]> 4.15 2011 Betty and Friends: My Life at the Zoo
author: Betty White
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at: 2015/04/11
date added: 2015/04/11
shelves: get-from-the-library, biographies, nonfiction, photography, animals
review:
Great book to read on a lazy weekend with the kids. If your kids are really young, there are pictures on almost every page to look at. Betty talks conservation, improving zoos, and shares her love of animals and personal stories with the L.A. zoo.

Most of the 304 pages are pictures, and the sections of her writing are a paragraph to a page or two. She even had a smattering of humor throughout the book.
]]> <![CDATA[Eight Arms of Inspiration: The Octopus Art Project]]> 20520867 336 Jinxi Caddel 0985814608 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 4.57 2013 Eight Arms of Inspiration: The Octopus Art Project
author: Jinxi Caddel
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2013
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/04/10
shelves: to-read, art, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification]]> 372010
In The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America author Julian Montague has created an elaborate classification system of abandoned shopping carts, accompanied by photographic documentation of actual stray cart sightings. These sightings include bucolically littered locations such as the Niagara River Gorge (where many a cart has been pushed to its untimely death) and mundane settings that look suspiciously like a suburb near you.

Working in the naturalist's tradition, the photographs depict the diversity of the phenomenon and carry a surprising emotional charge; readers inevitably begin to see these carts as human, at times poignant in their abandoned, decrepit state, hilariously incapacitated, or ingeniously co-opted. The result is at once rigorous and absurd, enabling the layperson to identify and classify their own cart spottings based on the situation in which they were found.]]> 176 Julian Montague 0810955202 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 2
Instead, the field guide portion was too involved and I didn't care to memorize the "code" for different cart classification subtypes. 33 subtypes. And they weren't all that humorous.

I yearned for something a bit more whimsical. Carts doing funny things or ending up in interesting places. Instead, it was a lot of pages of similar type, sad looking carts with a too long explanation. Carts in between buildings, on property but drifting, sad broken carts, carts partially or fully submerged. In other words....depressing.

I took a chance and just google image searched .

You get such a fun array already online! Let me give you some fun examples that COULD have been in an off the wall shopping cart book!
FIRE Propelled Shopping Cart!

Bicycle/Cart Hybrid!

Giant Motorized Cart!

Re-purposing as a Grill Cart!

Practical Joke Carts!

Basketball Cart!

Lounger Cart!


I feel better now...got my fix of funny shopping carts. ]]> 4.11 2006 The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
author: Julian Montague
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2006
rating: 2
read at: 2015/04/08
date added: 2015/04/08
shelves: get-from-the-library, boooorrrriiinnnngggg, disappointed-wanted-to-love-it, eh-shrug
review:
Not sure exactly what I was expecting. Something a bit funny, a fun "fake" field guide with funny pictures of stray shopping carts.

Instead, the field guide portion was too involved and I didn't care to memorize the "code" for different cart classification subtypes. 33 subtypes. And they weren't all that humorous.

I yearned for something a bit more whimsical. Carts doing funny things or ending up in interesting places. Instead, it was a lot of pages of similar type, sad looking carts with a too long explanation. Carts in between buildings, on property but drifting, sad broken carts, carts partially or fully submerged. In other words....depressing.

I took a chance and just google image searched .

You get such a fun array already online! Let me give you some fun examples that COULD have been in an off the wall shopping cart book!
FIRE Propelled Shopping Cart!

Bicycle/Cart Hybrid!

Giant Motorized Cart!

Re-purposing as a Grill Cart!

Practical Joke Carts!

Basketball Cart!

Lounger Cart!


I feel better now...got my fix of funny shopping carts.
]]> A Perfectly Messed-Up Story 20706273
Little Louie's story keeps getting messed up, and he's not happy about it! What's the point of telling his tale if he can't tell it perfectly? But when he stops and takes a deep breath, he realizes that everything is actually just fine, and his story is a good one--imperfections and all.]]> 40 Patrick McDonnell 0316222585 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 4.14 2014 A Perfectly Messed-Up Story
author: Patrick McDonnell
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/04/06
shelves: to-read, children-s-picture-book, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity]]> 12410640
Time magazine editors and presidential historians Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy offer a new and revealing lens on the American presidency, exploring the club as a hidden instrument of power that has changed the course of history.]]> 641 Nancy Gibbs 1439127700 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 4.14 2012 The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
author: Nancy Gibbs
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/03/19
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War]]> 22571757 It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the complex lives of others. It’s her work, but it’s much more than that: it’s her singular calling.

Lynsey Addario was just finding her way as a young photographer when September 11 changed the world. One of the few photojournalists with experience in Afghanistan, she gets the call to return and cover the American invasion. She makes a decision she would often find herself making—not to stay home, not to lead a quiet or predictable life, but to set out across the world, face the chaos of crisis, and make a name for herself.

Addario finds a way to travel with a purpose. She photographs the Afghan people before and after the Taliban reign, the civilian casualties and misunderstood insurgents of the Iraq War, as well as the burned villages and countless dead in Darfur. She exposes a culture of violence against women in the Congo and tells the riveting story of her headline-making kidnapping by pro-Qaddafi forces in the Libyan civil war.

Addario takes bravery for granted but she is not fearless. She uses her fear and it creates empathy; it is that feeling, that empathy, that is essential to her work. We see this clearly on display as she interviews rape victims in the Congo, or photographs a fallen soldier with whom she had been embedded in Iraq, or documents the tragic lives of starving Somali children. Lynsey takes us there and we begin to understand how getting to the hard truth trumps fear.

As a woman photojournalist determined to be taken as seriously as her male peers, Addario fights her way into a boys� club of a profession. Rather than choose between her personal life and her career, Addario learns to strike a necessary balance. In the man who will become her husband, she finds at last a real love to complement her work, not take away from it, and as a new mother, she gains an all the more intensely personal understanding of the fragility of life.

Watching uprisings unfold and people fight to the death for their freedom, Addario understands she is documenting not only news but also the fate of society. It’s What I Do is more than just a snapshot of life on the front lines; it is witness to the human cost of war.]]> 368 Lynsey Addario 159420537X ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 to-read, get-from-the-library 4.33 2015 It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
author: Lynsey Addario
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/03/15
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[A Tale Dark & Grimm (A Tale Dark & Grimm, #1)]]> 7825557 Fairy tales have never been more irreverent or subversive as Hansel and Gretel learn to take charge of their destinies and become the clever architects of their own happily ever after.

]]> 256 Adam Gidwitz 0525423346 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 4.09 2010 A Tale Dark & Grimm (A Tale Dark & Grimm, #1)
author: Adam Gidwitz
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2010
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/02/26
shelves: to-read, fairy-tales, get-from-the-library, retelling, middle-grade
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World]]> 1918305
Apparently, the happiest places on earth include, somewhat unexpectedly, Iceland, Bhutan, and India. Weiner also visits the country deemed most malcontent, Moldova, and finds real merit in the claim.

But the question remains: What makes people happy? Is it the freedom of the West or the myriad restrictions of Singapore? The simple ashrams of India or the glittering shopping malls of Qatar?
From the youthful drunkenness of Iceland to the despond of Slough, a sad but resilient town in Heathrow's flight path, Weiner offers wry yet profound observations about the way people relate to circumstance and fate.

Both revealing and inspirational, perhaps the best thing about this hilarious trip across four continents is that for the reader, the "geography of bliss" is wherever they happen to find themselves while reading it.]]> 335 Eric Weiner 0446580260 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 3.84 2008 The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
author: Eric Weiner
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2008
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/02/18
shelves: to-read, nonfiction, learn-something-new-every-day, re-examine-life, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> The Bookshop Book 23675287
We’re not talking about rooms that are just full of books. We’re talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I’ve-ever-been-to-bookshops.

Meet Sarah and her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France; meet Sebastien, in Mongolia, who sells books to herders of the Altai mountains; meet the bookshop in Canada that’s invented the world’s first antiquarian book vending machine.

And that’s just the beginning.

From the oldest bookshop in the world, to the smallest you could imagine, The Bookshop Book examines the history of books, talks to authors about their favourite places, and looks at over three hundred weirdly wonderful bookshops across six continents (sadly, we’ve yet to build a bookshop down in the South Pole).

The Bookshop Book is a love letter to bookshops all around the world.]]> 160 Jen Campbell 1472116704 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 3.75 2014 The Bookshop Book
author: Jen Campbell
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/02/17
shelves: to-read, get-from-the-library, learn-something-new-every-day
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases]]> 3584 This unique book uses the legendary adventures of Sherlock Holmes as a jumping-off point to discuss the growth of forensic science during the Victorian era. The book explores the emergence of science from superstition, how forensic autopsies evolved from anatomical dissection, the huge advances in blood chemistry and poison detection, and the early use of fingerprints, photography and trace evidence. It also provides new insights into landmark criminal cases that influenced the forensic world, such as Jack the Ripper and Lizzie Borden, and includes rare period illustrations.]]> 256 E.J. Wagner 0471648795 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 4.22 2006 The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases
author: E.J. Wagner
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2006
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/02/11
shelves: to-read, sherlockian-sherlockesque, nonfiction, get-from-the-library
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book: 448 Great Things to Do in Nature Before You Grow Up]]> 16056184 Nature is a destination, but you don't have to travel anywhere to find it. Just open the door and step outside. Afun, hands on approach to getting involved in nature, The Kids' OutdoorAdventureBook is a year-round how-to activity guidebook for getting kids outdoors and exploring nature, be it catching fireflies in the cool summer evenings; making birdfeeders in the fall from peanut butter, pine cones, and seed; building a snowman in 3 feet of fresh winter snow; or playing duck, duck, goose with friends in a meadow on a warm spring day. The Kids'Outdoor AdventureBook includes 448 things to do in nature for kids of all ages--more than one activity for every single day of the year. Each of the year's four seasons includesfifty checklistitems,fifty challenge items, three each of projects, destinations, garden recipes, and outdoor games. Throughout the book, you'll also find fascinating facts, useful tips and tricks, and plenty of additional resources to turn to. Complete with whimsical, vibrant illustrations, this book is a must for parents and their kids.]]> 224 Stacy Tornio 0762783524 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 4.36 2013 Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book: 448 Great Things to Do in Nature Before You Grow Up
author: Stacy Tornio
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A New New Testament: A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts]]> 15814457
Over the past century, numerous lost scriptures have been discovered, authenticated, translated, debated, celebrated. Many of these documents were as important to shaping early-Christian communities and beliefs as what we have come to call the New Testament; these were not the work of shunned sects or rebel apostles, not alternative histories or doctrines, but part of the vibrant conversations that sparked the rise of Christianity. Yet these scriptures are rarely read in contemporary churches; they are discussed nearly only by scholars or within a context only of gnostic gospels. Why should these books be set aside? Why should they continue to be lost to most of us? And don’t we have a great deal to gain by placing them back into contact with the twenty-seven books of the traditional New Testament—by hearing, finally, the full range of voices that formed the early chorus of Christians?

To create this New New Testament , Hal Taussig called together a council of scholars and spiritual leaders to discuss and reconsider which books belong in the New Testament. They talked about these recently found documents, the lessons therein, and how they inform the previously bound books. They voted on which should be added, choosing ten new books to include in A New New Testament . Reading the traditional scriptures alongside these new texts—the Gospel of Luke with the Gospel of Mary, Paul’s letters with The Letter of Peter to Philip, The Revelation to John with The Secret Revelation to John—offers the exciting possibility of understanding both the new and the old better. This new reading, and the accompanying commentary in this volume, promises to reinvigorate a centuries-old conversation and to bring new relevance to a dynamic tradition.]]> 640 Hal Taussig 0547792107 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 3.98 2013 A New New Testament: A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts
author: Hal Taussig
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2013
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]]> <![CDATA[The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers]]> 421357
Hollywood’s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can’t hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged , and Depraved, comes the ultimate resource on the serial killer phenomenon.

Rigorously researched and packed with the most terrifying, up-to-date information, this innovative and highly compelling compendium covers every aspect of multiple murderers—from psychology to cinema, fetishism to fan clubs, “trophies� to trading cards.

WHO THEY Those featured include Ed Gein , the homicidal mama’s boy who inspired fiction’s most famous Psycho , Norman Bates; Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi , sex-crazed killer cousins better known as the Hillside Stranglers; and the Beanes , a fifteenth-century cave-dwelling clan with an insatiable appetite for human flesh

HOW THEY They shoot, stab, and strangle. Butcher, bludgeon, and burn. Drown, dismember, and devour . . . and other methods of massacre too many and monstrous to mention here.

WHY THEY DO For pleasure and for profit. For celebrity and for “companionship.� For the devil and for dinner. For the thrill of it, for the hell of it, and because “such men are monsters, who live . . .
beyond the frontiers of madness.�

in-depth case studies, classic killers� nicknames, definitions of every kind of deviance and derangement, and much, much more.

For more than one hundred profiles of lethal loners and killer couples, Bluebeards and black widows, cannibals and copycats� this is an indispensable, spine-tingling, eye-popping investigation into the dark hearts and mad minds of that twisted breed of human whose crimes are the most frightening . . . and fascinating.]]> 432 Harold Schechter 0345465660 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 4.05 2003 The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers
author: Harold Schechter
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2003
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]]> <![CDATA[The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers]]> 299089 391 Michael Newton 0816039798 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 4.16 1990 The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
author: Michael Newton
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1990
rating: 0
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]]> Library of Dreams 19214269 The recurring nightmare of a federal agent�
Stolen dreams sold as drugs�
Forbidden dreams running rampant into the waking world�
Dream lovers, dream captors, dream saviours and dream kings�

Dreams can be hopes, dreams can be visions, dreams can be prophesies, and dreams can be horrors. They cross over into our waking hours or are forgotten just before dawn. They prompt us to take new chances in our lives, or replace a life we can’t bear to face. Dreams are both another world and our own.

Enter the Library of Dreams. This inaugural short story collection from PSG Publishing contains the work of fourteen authors from six different countries, covering every corner of the literary dreamscape. Featuring new stories from Charlotte Ashley, Emerald Delmara, Dee Drin, Kim Fry, Katherine A. Ganzel, Yzabel Ginsberg, JC McDowell, Tim McFarlane, Alexandra Owen, Miloš Petrik, Adam Sigrist, Maya Starling, Josh Vitalie and Len Webster.

Proceeds from sales of the Library of Dreams will be donated to LitWorld, a non-profit literacy organization fostering resilience, hope, and joy through the power of story. For more information, visit .]]> 242 Charlotte Ashley 0615934463 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 4.08 2013 Library of Dreams
author: Charlotte Ashley
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2013
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]]> <![CDATA[The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide]]> 7785927 174 Eva Talmadge 0061997404 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 3.61 2010 The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide
author: Eva Talmadge
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Marriage Illustrated with Crappy Pictures]]> 22521841 "Funny and flattering quote from loving, supportive, perfect husband."—Crappy Husband

Marriage: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures provides much-needed laughs about coping with another person's hygiene habits, cleaning rituals (including their ritual of not cleaning), financial decisions, cooking quirks and everything else that makes your spouse weird and annoying special and perfect in every way.]]> 176 Amber Dusick 0373893078 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 3.85 2014 Marriage Illustrated with Crappy Pictures
author: Amber Dusick
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Undersea Network (Sign, Storage, Transmission)]]> 23214145 The Undersea Network Nicole Starosielski follows these cables from the ocean depths to their landing zones on the sandy beaches of the South Pacific, bringing them to the surface of media scholarship and making visible the materiality of the wired network. In doing so, she charts the cable network's cultural, historical, geographic and environmental dimensions. Starosielski argues that the environments the cables occupy are historical and political realms, where the network and the connections it enables are made possible by the deliberate negotiation and manipulation of technology, culture, politics and geography. Accompanying the book is an interactive digital mapping project, where readers can trace cable routes, view photographs and archival materials, and read stories about the island cable hubs.]]> 312 Nicole Starosielski 0822357550 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 3.85 2015 The Undersea Network (Sign, Storage, Transmission)
author: Nicole Starosielski
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average rating: 3.85
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]]> <![CDATA[Denton Little's Deathdate (Denton Little, #1)]]> 18883231 Ride through the last hours of a teenager’s life as he searches for love, meaning, answers, and (just maybe) a way to live on.

Denton Little’s Deathdate takes place in a world exactly like our own except that everyone knows the day on which they will die. For Denton, that’s in just two days—the day of his senior prom.

Despite his early deathdate, Denton has always wanted to live a normal life, but his final days are filled with dramatic firsts. First hangover. First sex. First love triangle—as the first sex seems to have happened not with his adoring girlfriend, but with his best friend’s hostile sister. (Though he’s not totally sure—see, first hangover.) His anxiety builds when he discovers a strange purple rash making its way up his body. Is this what will kill him? And then a strange man shows up at his funeral, claiming to have known Denton’s long-deceased mother, and warning him to beware of suspicious government characters. . . . Suddenly Denton’s life is filled with mysterious questions and precious little time to find the answers.]]> 346 Lance Rubin 0553496964 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 3.85 2015 Denton Little's Deathdate (Denton Little, #1)
author: Lance Rubin
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Where Are They Buried (Revised and Updated): How Did They Die?]]> 6950171
>Updated with dozens of entries of the newly dead and now in paperback, an irresistible and browsable guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of the world's most influential figures.

This unparalleled compilation of profiles of the deceased—from Abbott and Costello to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, from Arthur Ashe to Paul Newman, offers all the pertinent details on how they lived and died. It is also a detailed atlas of where they are buried.

Each entry in this fascinating book includes an entertaining capsule biography full of little-known facts, a detailed description of each subject's death, and very specific directions to the location and site of the grave. Fifty photos and informative sidebars (on such topics as how to find anyone's grave) round out this indispensable field guide to the "permanent addresses" of the world's most significant late citizens.

New additions to the roster of final resting places include: � Tim Russert � Heath Ledger � Norman Mailer � Anna Nicole Smith � George Carlin � Rosa Parks � Hunter S. Thompson � Paul Newman � Katharine Hepburn � and many more

]]> 560 Tod Benoit 157912822X ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 3.86 2003 Where Are They Buried (Revised and Updated): How Did They Die?
author: Tod Benoit
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory]]> 20663702 A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession.

Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre—took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life’s work. Thrown into a profession of gallows humor and vivid characters (both living and very dead), Doughty learned to navigate the secretive culture of those who care for the deceased.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes tells an unusual coming-of-age story full of bizarre encounters and unforgettable scenes. Caring for dead bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, Doughty soon becomes an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. She describes how she swept ashes from the machines (and sometimes onto her clothes) and reveals the strange history of cremation and undertaking, marveling at bizarre and wonderful funeral practices from different cultures.

Her eye-opening, candid, and often hilarious story is like going on a journey with your bravest friend to the cemetery at midnight. She demystifies death, leading us behind the black curtain of her unique profession. And she answers questions you didn’t know you had: Can you catch a disease from a corpse? How many dead bodies can you fit in a Dodge van? What exactly does a flaming skull look like?

Honest and heartfelt, self-deprecating and ironic, Doughty's engaging style makes this otherwise taboo topic both approachable and engrossing. Now a licensed mortician with an alternative funeral practice, Doughty argues that our fear of dying warps our culture and society, and she calls for better ways of dealing with death (and our dead).]]> 254 Caitlin Doughty 0393240231 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 3.98 2014 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
author: Caitlin Doughty
name: ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page...
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2014
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]]> <![CDATA[What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions]]> 21413662 xkcd comic ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? What if everyone only had one soulmate? What would happen if the moon went away?

In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by his signature xkcd comics. (They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.)

In celebration of 10 years of unusual insight, Randall Munroe has revised his classic blockbuster to ask what if? x 10. The result is 10x the adventure of scientific inquiry. Featuring brand-new 2-color annotations and illustrations, this special anniversary edition is far more than a book for geeks, What If? explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel much smarter for having read.]]> 303 Randall Munroe 0544272994 ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 4.13 2014 What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
author: Randall Munroe
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average rating: 4.13
book published: 2014
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]]> <![CDATA[Beautiful Death: Art of the Cemetery]]> 453915 176 David Robinson 067086806X ❀Aimee❀ Just one more page... 0 4.10 1996 Beautiful Death: Art of the Cemetery
author: David Robinson
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average rating: 4.10
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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