![]() More than just a study of one of history's seminal architectural figures, The Perfect House reflects Rybczynski's enormous admiration for his subject and provides a new way of looking at the special landscapes we call "home" in the modern world. In The Perfect House, bestselling author Witold Rybczynski, whose previous books ( Home, A Clearing in the Distance, Now I Sit Me Down) have transformed our understanding of domestic architecture, reveals how a handful of Palladio's houses in an obscure corner of the Venetian Republic should have made their presence felt hundreds of years later and halfway across the globe. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form during the late sixteenth century - and his influence is still evident in the ample porches, columned porticoes, grand ceilings, and front-door pediments of America today. This immensely popular, witty, and highly provocative book is changing. ![]() ![]() "Palladio is the Bible," Thomas Jefferson once said. Buy a used copy of Home : A Short History of an Idea book by Witold Rybczynski. ![]()
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![]() After I read the book, I researched anything I could about Margot Adler because I wanted to go see her speak or contrive some way to meet her. For a book written 40ish years ago, it's still highly relevant. ![]() She puts herself into situations in this book that make her uncomfortable, that give her spiritual awakenings, that make her (and therefore you) LOL. She meets and interviews all different kinds of people with various believe systems throughout the book and the only time that she's ever slightly judgemental at all is when she can tell someone is full of shit and moreso using "ritual" as a power grab and not for spiritual enlightenment. As she learns more, she gets drawn in and it changes her life by the end. ![]() However, this book also reads as a memoir because she starts out really looking at this from a detached, non-believer academic standpoint but then begins participating in rituals (to various both positive and negative results). Margot Adler took an academic/historical approach to researching various areas of Paganism, Witchcraft, Wicca, Druidism, etc. A friend had highly recommended it to me but I work in a publishing company so people are always HIGHLY recommending books to me LOL. I read a lot of "witchy books" and didn't have any preconceived notions about this book when I read it. ![]() ![]() Fascinating historic and personal analysis ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Book requests must be specific and request something that cannot be found with a simple search of the sub.“What was that book called” posts are exempt from this rule, as they are unlikely to show up in future searchesīook requests must be specific and contain detail.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for.Inflammatory titles like Does Anyone Else, Unpopular Opinion, or similar are not allowed. ![]() Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. 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We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The more she learns about Birch Grove's recent past, the more Jane comes to suspect that there is something sinister going on. She even starts tutoring the headmistress's gorgeous son, Lucien. There, for the first time, Jane finds herself accepted by a group of friends. Through hard work and determination, she manages to win a scholarship to the exclusive Birch Grove Academy. Orphaned at the age of six, Jane Williams has grown up in a series of foster homes, learning to survive in the shadows of life. ![]() Jane Eyre meets Twilight in Dark Companion, a lush and romantic YA gothic tale about an orphaned girl who attends an exclusive private school and finds herself torn between the headmistress's two sons. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Andrea's always been a dreamer, something she often gets teased for, but her one big dream has been to fly like a bird. (I always felt that "dumbing things down" only insults kids, who are plenty intelligent enough to "get it" and appreciate it.Īndrea and her older brother, Jim, are stuck at home- babysat by their eccentric Aunt Bets, while their parents are on vacation. The subtleties and realistic reactions made it far less one-dimensional than a lot of books aimed towards the younger set, which I know that I appreciated. (I admit I still enjoy this story today, and I'm a mom), but I first discovered it when I was a young girl. Beatrice Gormley spins a smart tale for ages 10 and up, both boys AND girls. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Could one person really be responsible for these unthinkable crimes? INVISIBLE is James Pattersons scariest, most chilling thriller yet. No motives, no murder weapons, no suspects. More murders are reported by the day-and theyre all inexplicable. That is, until Emmy finds a piece of evidence he cant afford to ignore. Not even Emmys ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison Books Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. That is, until Emmy finds a piece of evidence he cant afford to ignore- Book Synopsis Read the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller Invisible, then continue the series with Unsolved. ![]() About the Book Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Between the Woods and the Water, the second volume of a projected three, has garnered as many prizes as its celebrated predecessor, A Time of Gifts. ![]() Undertaken as the storms of war gathered, and providing a background for the events that were beginning to unfold in Central Europe, Leigh Fermor’s still-unfinished account of his journey has established itself as a modern classic. The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on in 1933-to cross Europe on foot with an emergency allowance of one pound a day-proved so rich in experiences that when much later he sat down to describe them, they overflowed into more than one volume. Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in A Time of Gifts, Patrick Leigh Fermor writes about walking from Hungary to the Balkans. ![]() ![]() ![]() He passed the Mission of Kindness and the auto-parts store he turned onto his own street and passed the lake-trout joint and then took a right up the cracked, stubbled sidewalk leading to his building. What was that little redhead doing by the side of the road? Because even though he knew by now that it was only a hydrant, still, for one fleeting instant he had the same delusion all over again, every single morning.Īfter he had put the hydrant issue behind him he slowed to a walk, panting, and set his hands at his waist in order to get more air in his lungs. ![]() There was something about the rounded top of it, emerging bit by bit as he descended a slope toward an intersection. On the homeward stretch this morning, he made his usual mistake of imagining for a second that a certain fire hydrant, faded to the pinkish color of an aged clay flowerpot, was a child or a very short grown-up. At night the lane markings on the streets were all but invisible, and just last week he had whacked a black spider that turned out to be a tangle of sewing thread. Not that he was going blind or anything it was just that he was getting old, as his optometrist so tactlessly put it. This was unfortunate, because in the past few years his distance vision had noticeably worsened. He hated how they grew steamy when he sweated. He hated to feel them bobbing up and down on his nose, was why. ![]() When Micah went on his runs he never wore his glasses. ![]() ![]() Rangers are of course fabled figures in Wild West mythology, but as I’ve come to expect from McMurtry, he doesn’t romanticise them. (There’s a fourth volume, Streets of Laredo, which takes place after Lonesome Dove and which I haven’t read yet.)Ĭomanche Moon takes place in the 1850s and 1860s, spanning a fair hunk of our heroes’ time at the core of their life as Texas Rangers. ![]() Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry (1997) 752 p.Ĭomanche Moon is the final volume McMurtry wrote about Augustus McRae and Woodrow Call, but the second chronologically – it slots in between Dead Man’s Walk, when Gus and Call are freshly minted teenage Texas Rangers, and Lonesome Dove, the original Pulitzer Prize winning doorstopper which sees them retired and herding cattle in their fifties. ![]() |
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