Monthly Archives: January 2008

links for 2008-01-30

Posted on January 30, 2008 by Faith

Top shelves | Shoptalk | Guardian Unlimited Books Most beautiful bookshops on the planet. I’ve been to a couple, but this one at the top is worth a trip (tags: bookshops)

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links for 2008-01-29

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Faith

Serious Eats: Recipes: Dinner Tonight: Creamiest White Beans with Leeks I’m in a bean phase. Maybe because it is so cold, and I am so tired (thanks to a car alarm that went off every 5 minutes for, oh, I … Continue reading →

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links for 2008-01-28

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Faith

A Little Suspense Travels a Long Way From one who always has to schelp a separate bag of books wherever I go–this is a MUST-HAVE item. (tags: TomStoppard booksatchel) David Lebovitz: Chocolate-Covered Caramelized Matzoh Crunch Chocolate, caramel, salt. . . … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year! How do you say that in Russian?

Posted on January 1, 2008 by Faith

Armed with the new Pevear/Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace, I have joined the Russian Reading Challenge (not to mention carrying on with the Facebook group I created just for this novel). I started (or, well, actually, restarted, as I’d … Continue reading →

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