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This cookbook contains the best seitan recipe I've found, and five or so recipes for flavoring that have not disappointed. Worth the price of admission alone. There's also a great, basic scrambled tofu recipe.
I blew through this in about three hours... I'm not sure I liked it as much as volume one. The story didn't have as many twists and turns as volume one, yet I was eager to find out what happens next. It's like The Empire Strikes Back.
The first few issues are choppy and not planned very well. After a while the creators chose a story arc and stuck to it and things improve. Still, there's no way this could be entertaining without seeing the television show.
This is the only children's book that I ever cried from reading. That said it was a bit heavy handed. Nevertheless it's a good story.
I read this book as part of my Illustrating Children's Books class. Selma is wonderfully and simply illustrated and has a great zen-like meaning to take away from it. I found it delightful.
I read this as part of my class on illustrating children's books. I was surprised by and enjoyed the wordy style of writing.
This book was so important to our vacation that we called it the book. I didn't read 70% of it but the parts going over how Fastpass works, what to expect from each of the parks, etc. was well worth it.
We also used the tear-out planners each day and definitely helped cut possible wait times from 70 minutes to 20-30 minutes.
Zen To Done is a great book. It takes elements of [b:Getting Things Done 1633 Getting Things Done The Art of Stress-Free Productivity David Allen http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158299716s/1633.jpg 5759] and Seven Habits of Highly Effective People as well as some others and combines them. Moreover it's a terrific book for those who have read one of those books and thinks that it was a bit much for daily use. I walked away from this book trying to plan less stuff, focusing on doing just a few tasks well. When I do remember to use this approach I am happy.
Five stars for no other reason besides it's the first RPG book I ever purchased. The TMNT aspects stretched a bit thin in parts (eg Mutant Humans) but it did include a cross–over of Cerebus and some interesting thoughts on the nature of time and space.
This books is comprised of two parts: part one is a retelling of the quest for the perfect pizza; part two is the recipes derived from the quest.
The first part is mouth–watering to the point of being pornographic. If you want to win me over it's apparently very easy to do so by telling me tales of crisp crusts with molten, bubbling blends of cheese. It's a story really ...but worth noting because the lesson is that there is no perfect pizza, just a confluence of pizza made with care and the moment it is created in.
The second part is recipes Reinhart has invented that mimic the ones he tasted, only they're better. I hope you like transcription because you'll probably want to copy the entire second half of the book down to your cookbooks.
As will agree with another review I read: After reading this book you'll never look at takeout pizza the same way again.
I read this book in my Illustrating Children's Books class. It's a difficult topic to write about in Children's Books — the material fits the older reader who is probably getting too old for the picture book format. This book does a terrific job of simplifying Big Bang Theory, though I feel like it's a bit heady still.
I've been keeping aquariums on and off for the past 25 years. I picked this up to read the chapter on live aquarium plants. It seemed a bit short but insightful but to see how much faith I should put in the authors opinion I skimmed through the rest of the book. What I found was recommendations that contradicted what I generally believe to be good aquarium keeping advice. Example: for my size tank he recommends 400% more fish can occupy a tank than what I've read elsewhere. I found quite a few questionable items, enough that I would not recommend this book to anyone.
I enjoyed these simple Russian folk tales. The gouache and ink illustrations are terrific but I felt they were reproduced poorly... perhaps lost when resizing from the original artwork. It wasn't terrible though and I felt the stories were better for them.
Being interested in mindfulness and on the verge of learning to knit I was pleased that there were actually books on the subject. Initially I thought this one was the bad one of the bunch I ended up picking it up first since I don't own any knitting supplies and this is the only knitting book that doesn't actually have any instruction.What you get is a memoir of a period in Lydon's life where she found the act of knitting bringing her to a mindful state. From my experience in making repetition a part of artwork I can attest that Lydon is on to something here. She describes scenes from her recent past and relates it to the ancient craft of knitting, mostly by telling of how different cultures understand the act of weaving and knitting and how it relates to their spiritual side. I'm on the verge of giving it three stars but honestly the advice is good advice, it's just that the way it was written felt a little schmaltzy. My hunch is that if you made it through [b:The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity 615570 The Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity Julia Cameron http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176346423s/615570.jpg 2210934] or [b:Writing Down the Bones 44905 Writing Down the Bones Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala Pocket Classics) Natalie Goldberg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170271469s/44905.jpg 937841] then this will be a breeze and you may enjoy it.
Another graphic novel I liked the idea of but felt it was a little flat. There are multiple mythic stories of floods here, each with unique settings and characters... but it skipped around too much to really submerge me into something meaningful.
This isn't the first tarot book I read when I picked it up in the summer of 2001. I had already read [b:The Book of Thoth 243001 The Book of Thoth A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians (Equinox III 5) Aleister Crowley http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173059843s/243001.jpg 836251] and a few others. I like how it included images from multiple tarot decks and compared them. I found the basic info on Astrology and the Kabbalah to be informative as well. This is still my go to book for referencing basic Tarot information, such as comparisons of the suits and numbers.
I didn't really connect to this deck (and accompanying book) when I acquired it but always meant to come back to it. I tried it out a few weeks ago and liked it, but focused on a more familiar deck instead.
I was disappointed that the stories here were often incomplete – many of the Batman Manga that exists is in poor condition and many stories are missing pages. That, plus the fact that it was originally in a foreign language, makes for some confusing story telling. It's often funny but ultimately a let–down. I can tell it was a project of love but ultimately it would have been better as a website with scans of the original works, not a big and incomplete book.
The illustrations were cool. The book reads from right to left, as does most manga, but inexplicably the introduction is printed at the back (what would be the front if it were a typical book). I read through the whole thing and was completely confused. If I had read the introduction I would have had the right frame of mind – Yokoyama apparently creates “serial images” that are as divorced from human emotions as possible; a temporal painting of sorts. Sounds cool... I wish that is how I read it. Instead it was a lot of cool but confusing panels.
A terrific look into the life and work of my favorite Children's book illustrator. Half of the book is an overview of his life and half is a look into his process. The most fruitful page for me was where it went over his method of coloring and the paints he used, even what colors they were.
This book didn't blow my mind as I had read a bit about Richard Scarry (all I could find, actually) online before I had read this. It's nice to have it all in one place, and from reliable sources (the two publishers he worked with all his life).
To get the most of this book you need to copy the styles presented in order to learn. Simply reading the book straight through will likely not result in learning much.
I'm not vegan, but interested in making some kick-ass seitan. I was looking for [b:Cooking With Seitan 1701182 Cooking with Seitan The Complete Vegetarian Barbara Jacobs http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187107395s/1701182.jpg 1698226] in the library and stumbled across this. This book is one of the most amazing cookbooks I've read. The Seitanic Jambalaya and the Lower-fat Deep Chocolate Bundt cake were huge hits. I don't feel like I'm missing out on something (read: cheese) when I eat these recipes. The other great thing is that, of the recipes I've made, all of the items are available at Whole Foods. PS- the seitan in this book ends up being great in the recipes but my hands-down favorite recipes for making seitan come from [b:La Dolce Vegan 48313 La Dolce Vegan! Vegan Livin' Made Easy Sarah Kramer http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170353362s/48313.jpg 47266]!
This book gave me a great overview of what I was missing in my site planning skills, planning content and working with it structurally, as well as from a marketing perspective. I found some of the book hard to get through - I think the second chapter - and almost gave it up. I think part of it is I was expecting a lighter book - the other two A Book Apart books have pictures, video, code, and examples. The Elements of Content Strategy is about the same length but packed full of text.
I couldn't make it through the last part of the book. It was a really long and not excitingly illustrated poem of Lovecrafts. I feel like the first story was the best and that my interest quickly declined thereafter.