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Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It - book review
I grew up in that era of frozen cardboard boxes of vegetables, iceberg lettuce salads, marshmallows suspended in Jell-o, and fluffy, weightless white bread. Somehow, I was still really curious about real cooking, real foods, how things were made. As a teenager, I baked bread and cookies, and experimented with making wine from concentrated grape [...]
Posted in Books, Craft, Creativity, DIY, Food and cooking, Kids Also tagged cooking, crafts, food, Kids, learning, making things Leave a comment
Free comic book day!
This Saturday, May 2, is Free Comic Book Day - check the FCBD locator for a participating store in your area.
Home Outside book contest
Andrea at Heavy Petal has a book giveaway - tell her in her comments (hers, not ours!) why you need the book, Home Outside, and she’ll pick a lucky winner randomly. Her contest ends March 31.
Love Your Indie contest
Writer Joe Hill started a contest - he’s offering a chance for signed first editions of his books if you shop at an indie bookstore this month. Subterranean Press upped the ante by kicking in copies of books by Neil Gaiman, Dan Simmons, Ray Bradbury, Elizabeth Bear, and a bunch of others. Check out Joe’s [...]
More free books
I just found this list of sources for free books online, including free books for the Kindle (which I covet, much as I love real books). One of the links is to Project Gutenberg.
Timely scrounging
Just saw a piece on the news about Jeff Ferrell, who wrote Empire of Scrounge. I wonder how fierce competition is going to get? It’s going to be like mushroom hunting . . .
Free books through Google
Don’t miss Google Book Search’s full text option - go to their search site, select a category, then change “Limited preview and full view” to “Full view only”. Lots of out-of-print and out-of-copyright books that you can download for free.
Scrap fu - Seattle RE Store
One of the points on our Genteel Recessionista Atlas Salvage map (look! link over there on the right!) is for the Seattle RE Store. The RE Store buys and sells salvage - they’re a non-profit, so you can get tax receipts for your donations, or get in-store credit. They’re great about helping you find what you [...]
Posted in Books, Scrapyards Also tagged Eccentric Cubicle, salvage, scrap, Seattle, stores 1 Comment