tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17629749.post114235687208657149..comments2023-06-05T06:50:01.915-04:00Comments on Crisis of Praxis: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02425554097061286483noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17629749.post-1142446138448547882006-03-15T13:08:00.000-05:002006-03-15T13:08:00.000-05:00"The Comforts of Home" is a good layman's book to ..."The Comforts of Home" is a good layman's book to read, I think. It's really more about history.<BR/><BR/>I used to watch 1900 House obsessively when I had TV. Recently I watched that one about the manor house. But they never really dwell on the parts I think are really interesting.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02425554097061286483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17629749.post-1142444681998770912006-03-15T12:44:00.000-05:002006-03-15T12:44:00.000-05:00Those toilet and modern convenience books sound ri...Those toilet and modern convenience books sound right up my alley. (Although <EM>maybe</EM> a bit too specialized even for me.)<BR/><BR/>Love watching those PBS shows about people trying to live the way they did in previous centuries.<BR/><BR/>A book I just finished, <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671882368/sr=8-1/qid=1142443428/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-0441155-8393757?%5Fencoding=UTF8" REL="nofollow"><EM>What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew,</EM></A> was pretty good, although not exclusively about toilets and such.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805065121/ref=wl_it_dp/102-0441155-8393757?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=1STHGAK3471S0&coliid=I270KYL53ZBHAB&v=glance&n=283155" REL="nofollow"><EM>Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash</EM></A> also sounds like a good book.<BR/><BR/><EM>Life of Pi</EM> is a really good book. At least I thought so. Hard to take in places, though. But I'd recommend it.<BR/><BR/>Martha (from the Stitch 'n' Bitch boards)Martha Spizzirihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16965300156978510147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17629749.post-1142376585239590572006-03-14T17:49:00.000-05:002006-03-14T17:49:00.000-05:00Hey. There is never a bad time to read Camus' The ...Hey. There is never a bad time to read Camus' The Plague. <BR/><BR/>I was endlessly mocked for reading Mark Kurlansky's "Salt" for some reason. I like non fiction. Domestic sanitation is unbelievably important. <BR/><BR/>I had to go back a few web pages to find out what LEED stood for. Oh! Sounds like a good thing. And a good thing to be accredited by.Carrie Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15585975894624687972noreply@blogger.com