| Previous :: Next Topic |
| Author |
Message |
touron
Member
Joined: 15 Sep 2003
Posts: 10301 | TRs
Location: Plymouth Rock
|
No, in fact, quite the opposite, though I have never had caviar. As far as I can tell, the only impulse associated with Grape Nuts is 
As a child, I would stay over at a friends house some times. They didn't have a big variety of breakfast cereals. One day I decided to try Grape Nuts. They looked so delicious. I poured a huge bowl of them. I poured the milk. I took a few bites, and knew I was in trouble. They tasted terrible. How could I ever even half-way finish this bowl of trouble?
--------------
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Bryan K
Shameless Peakbagger
Joined: 29 Sep 2005
Posts: 5129 | TRs
Location: Alaska
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Phil
Member
Joined: 02 Jul 2003
Posts: 2026 | TRs
Location: Shoreline, WA
|
| Flower Sniffer wrote: |
| [color=darkgreen][b]The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig. |
 Awesome, like most of his stuff.
Winter brothers is another one of his, nonfiction, that conjures the pacific NW coast. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Flower Sniffer
Sniffer of flowers
Joined: 12 Jun 2006
Posts: 950 | TRs
Location: Snohomish, WA
|
Yes! I loved Winter Brothers. It's fun learning about local history. Now every time I sit on the beach up at Neah Bay, all I can think of is heads on stakes! 
--------------
If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
WTM
Member
Joined: 03 Jul 2003
Posts: 231 | TRs
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
dawgpack
woof!
Joined: 30 Dec 2007
Posts: 38 | TRs
Location: U-District
|
"Against the Law" - Ching Kwan Lee
It's a book for a graduate class I'm taking at UW. The book is basically all about labor protests in China. She makes a distinction between the type of protest that occurs in the south (Guangdong) where there are mostly younger workers in export-oriented factories, and in the northeast (Liaoyang) where there are mostly older, laid-off employees who worked for some of China's now-defunct state owned enterprises.
AND
"LSAT for Dummies" !
I'm too lazy to go find out by whom that is written. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mike
Member
Joined: 09 Jul 2004
Posts: 6150 | TRs
Location: SJIsl
|
| My wife got me a nice first edition of "Hole in the Sky" by William Kittredge for christmas. Goes well with our recent explorations in SE OR |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Bigfoot Jim
Member
Joined: 13 Aug 2007
Posts: 269 | TRs
|
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Grizzy
Yellow Cedar Hugger
Joined: 16 Jul 2006
Posts: 1935 | TRs
Location: Switchbacks
|
| jamesf wrote: |
| Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson |
A fantastic book! if you haven't read it yet..... 
--------------
All the birds have flown up and gone;
A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.
We never tire of looking at each other -
Only the mountain and I. ~Li Po~ |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
bobbi
stillaGUAMish
Joined: 13 Jul 2006
Posts: 7990 | TRs
Location: olympics!
|
| three cups of tea is on my list-can't wait to finish my current book to get on with it! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Jason Hummel
Member
Joined: 31 Aug 2006
Posts: 1169 | TRs
Location: Tacoma Washington
|
I'm reading a few books, always am I guess. Although I've been working on studying for an exam for work, so not reading as much as i would like to be.
Hunters of Dune.
Actually better than I thought it would be.
Measure of a Mountain.
Pretty good book about a guy who is obsessed with all things Rainier.
Elements of Style.
A book on writing, of which I am always beginning or ending.
National Geographic Photographers.
A book of photography with short bits about the photographers and the photos they took. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Gray
Lazy Hiker
Joined: 25 Aug 2006
Posts: 1063 | TRs
Location: Seattle, WA
|
| BeyondLost wrote: |
Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
He explains special relativity such that I can finally understand it. At least immediately after reading it.  |
If you enjoyed that, I suggest you check out some of John Gribbin's "In Search of..." series. He does a very good job of taking very, very complicated ideas and theorys and making them understandable. My favorites of his so far have been
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, where he examines quantum physics,
In Search of the Big Bang, where he looks at cosmology (and, of course, some more quantum physics), and
In Search of the Double Helix, about genetics, and the discovery of DNA and it's role in inheritance.
I'm currently about half-way through his Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity, though I got distracted, and it seems to have become my "read on the plane" book.
Currently, I'm re-reading Tom Clancy's Patriot Games, alongside a re-read of Wrox Press' Beginning Visual C++ 5.
Just finished Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. I started with his The Big U, and couldn't figure out what all the fuss was about him. Snow Crash made it more clear, good book.
My favorite recent read was China Mievelle's Perdido Street Station, one of the best and most beautifully realized fictional worlds in a long, long time. I need to pick up some more from him.
--Gray |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Frank
Member
Joined: 10 Jul 2004
Posts: 315 | TRs
Location: Snohomish
|
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Dane
Other
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Posts: 2466 | TRs
Location: Seattle
|
EMT and Linear Algebra texts 
If it were up to me I'd be digging into another HP Lovecraft book
--------------
Without judgement what would we do? We would be forced to look at ourselves...
-Death |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
goats gone wild
Mr. Goat
Joined: 19 Aug 2007
Posts: 2525 | TRs
Location: Vampireville
|
I am making myself finish "Men, Mountains and Mules...Lieutenant O'Neil's Olympic Expeditions."
I started it a few years ago and got really bored right from the start. It's kind of wordy and convulted....made me feel like I was an overloaded mule trying to climb Olympus just to read it. I told myself I would pick it up again after I'd hiked the NF Skok...and maybe it would be more interesting.
NOT!!! But I am almost done (on the last chapter.) Thank Goodness.
--------------
.....leaving me wanting to return over and over in what ever capacity that may be, even if one day my knees are too old and I can only see the mountains from my porch.
Jason Hummel |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
