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Debbie Travis' Decorating Solutions: More Than 65 Paint and Plaster Finishes for Every Room in Your Home
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Book Type: Hardcover
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Book Type: Hardcover
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Review Date: 7/26/2008
Helpful Score: 2
Travis demonstrates many paint techniques and faux techniques, including "suede" walls, "linen" walls, streaking, sponging, and many of her own invention, like "grafitti", which utilizes newspaper as well as paint.
Color theory, descriptive techniques. Many beautiful pictures which are sure to inspire.
Color theory, descriptive techniques. Many beautiful pictures which are sure to inspire.
Review Date: 7/26/2008
Helpful Score: 2
The title is pretty descriptive of the content of this book. I found it extremely useful for identifying and attracting one's favorite birds to the feeder. These birds, like goldfinches, scarlet tanagers, and blue jays, turn out to be the least messy and destructive birds, as well. Pointers for bird feeder design, bird foods, and other useful tidbits.
Review Date: 1/11/2010
Helpful Score: 2
Lindbergh, by A. Scott Berg, is the only "official" biography of Charles Lindbergh. Anne Morrow Lindbergh had hired Berg, prior to her death, giving him access to records involving CAL's history, with the stipulation that the biography not be compiled or written until after AML's death.
I have been intrigued by CAL's life for many years. I read Anne Morrow Lindbergh's memoir, "Send me a Unicorn", and that got me hooked on this fascinating couple. However, after several attempts, I could not bring myself to finish this dry biography of what was a very interesting, and multidimensional life story.
Since reading the first third of this book, I have since learned that it actually misses out on a lot of CAL's life. For instance, he actually had families with two separate German women. Lindbergh's daugher, Reeve, writes about meeting her half-siblings and how it felt to learn of her father's infidelity.
I think, though, what I missed most, compared to the Diary/Letters of "Bring Me a Unicorn", and the following collections, "War Within and Without", "The Flower and the Nettle", is that *Lindbergh* essentially lacks a human voice, the voice of CAL, himself. Berg tries so hard to be dispassionate about his subject, that his writing lacks any passion at all. You could probably get a lot of "hard" data out of this biography. Things like dates, and such. But I didn't find much insight into what made Lindbergh a great, and yes, a puzzle of a man.
I have been intrigued by CAL's life for many years. I read Anne Morrow Lindbergh's memoir, "Send me a Unicorn", and that got me hooked on this fascinating couple. However, after several attempts, I could not bring myself to finish this dry biography of what was a very interesting, and multidimensional life story.
Since reading the first third of this book, I have since learned that it actually misses out on a lot of CAL's life. For instance, he actually had families with two separate German women. Lindbergh's daugher, Reeve, writes about meeting her half-siblings and how it felt to learn of her father's infidelity.
I think, though, what I missed most, compared to the Diary/Letters of "Bring Me a Unicorn", and the following collections, "War Within and Without", "The Flower and the Nettle", is that *Lindbergh* essentially lacks a human voice, the voice of CAL, himself. Berg tries so hard to be dispassionate about his subject, that his writing lacks any passion at all. You could probably get a lot of "hard" data out of this biography. Things like dates, and such. But I didn't find much insight into what made Lindbergh a great, and yes, a puzzle of a man.
Review Date: 8/27/2024
I greatly enjoyed this book. This is not a travel book offering suggestions for the best hotels, and Must-see locations, etc., but a first-hand account of Troost's travel across China. His trip encompasses several months and several thousand miles. It is at times laugh-out-loud funny, and at times a little depressing. But as someone who has been fascinated with China and its history for over forty years, I will definitely be adding this to my list of important reads on the topic. In some ways, I feel he reflects a truer vision of what China is in the modern era. (Note that his trip takes place around 2006-2007). I found the ending quite thought-provoking.
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