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Lindsay, Anne. Smart Cooking: Quick and Tasty Recipes for Healthy Living. Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1996. Print.

(This is not the same edition that I read.)

Decades of articles from the Old House Journal.  A great reference, probably, but I discovered that it’s impossible to sit and just read.  I’ll get it again when I have a particular old-house problem to solve.

A small but useful book.  The first part, on layout, was most useful to me.  She got into a bunch of typography stuff at the end that I thought would find interesting, but really just went over my head.

I was a little leery of reading something biographical from one of my favourite childhood authors, in case it made me respect her less as a writer or person.  I also thought this might be pretty depressing, since I knew that it involved in part a serious illness of her husband.  However, I enjoyed it in a quiet way.  I particularly liked the parts about when they were young and courting, and the descriptions of their lives when he was in the theatre.

I liked this, but it just seemed too much like “The Summer of my Amazing Luck”.  It felt to me as if she re-wrote her original idea, possibly because she wanted to do it justice.

I’m a big fan of anything Dr. Nelson writes, and not just because we share a name.  I was familiar with most of the exercises in here but I think it would be an excellent resource for someone who was just at the beginning of lower back pain.  It’s a slim book – I’m always glad when authors or publishers don’t feel the need to pad a book to make it some kind of “standard” length.

http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=2615559

The levels of half-assedness around here had dropped to nothing, as my local readers may have noticed.  Well, never fear, you’re about to start getting at least a sliver again.  For now I’ll just be recording the books read and linking to either the Toronto library (which are on strike, boo!) or LibraryThing entries.