Block That View: What To Do When The Woods Disappear
I've been talking about garden bones and evergreen plants that can create them for some time. Now, having just had most of the woods next door replaced by a tennis court, I'm suddenly faced with providing some planned screening instead of the ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Carol Clippinger
Here I am not someone's little sister. Not someone's daughter. Not someone's friend. This game beckons me-chooses me. I am a warrior. An Amazon. I am beautiful. And I play to win. Holloway Braxton takes no prisoners on the tennis court. She's ... [... more]
Random House |
The Tennis Party
 Tennis with the Macbeths: If Shakespeare's Macbeths had held a tennis party, it would have been just as Madeleine Wickham describes it in her wonderful novel, The Tennis Party. This is a book about the haves, the have-nots and the just plain obnoxious. [... more]
CDN$16.02
Amazon CA |
Winning Doubles
Didn't like it.: This book was not very impressive. It contains a small section of text up front and then a bunch of FULL PAGE pictures for the rest of the book. Instead of using 1/4 page pictures (or, better yet, pencil drawings), he used full page pics. [... more]
CDN$28.95
Amazon CA |
The Cat Who Had 14 Tales
NOT disappointing...: I AM a fan of The Cat Who series ... a big fan ... and I am not in the least disappointed with this book. I enjoyed all of these short stories very much. I especially enjoyed Phut Phat Concentrates. Very cute and reminds me of my [... more]
CDN$10.99
Amazon CA |
The Captive: Part 1
From Amazon.com: Marcel Proust whiled away the first half of his life as a self-conscious aesthete and social climber. The second half he spent in the creation of the mighty roman-fleuve that is Remembrance of Things Past, memorializing his own dandyism [... more]
CDN$18.73
Amazon CA |
Shoot the Moon
From Amazon.com: Albert Finney (George) and Diane Keaton (Faith) play well against each other in this rather bleak and (for director Alan Parker) subdued story about a middle-class California couple trying and failing to be "grown-up" about [... more]
CDN$24.95
Amazon CA |
The House Next Door
From Amazon.com: Anne Rivers Siddons is a writer of literary fiction whose one foray into the horror genre is this remarkable 1978 novel, The House Next Door. The setting is a wealthy suburb in Atlanta where an ambitious young architect is building a [... more]
CDN$8.32
Amazon CA |
Blocking the Gap : What To Do When The Woods Disappear
I'm facing a long term project in the garden, namely blocking the view of a tennis court that replaced the woods next door. I need something evergreen that grows fairly rapidly to at least 20 ' tall while remaining fairly narrow in diameter. ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Introducing Children to the Game of Tennis: A Guide for ...
thanks to Pierce Kelley: This book is well written, thorough and insightful. Mr. Kelley's approach to teaching tennis can be used by any coach, parent or teacher trying to help any athlete learn the fundamentals of any sport. Having coached youth sports [... more]
CDN$13.49
Amazon CA |
The Captive, Part II
From Amazon.com: Marcel Proust whiled away the first half of his life as a self-conscious aesthete and social climber. The second half he spent in the creation of the mighty roman-fleuve that is Remembrance of Things Past, memorializing his own dandyism [... more]
CDN$23.94
Amazon CA |
Blackmail/Easy Virtue
View "Easy Virtue" as an artifact and "Blackmail" as genius: Easy Virtue is one of Hitchcock's forgettable silent melodramas about a woman who wants to divorce her alchoholic husband and is scarred for life as a result. Blackmail, on [... more]
CDN$13.95
Amazon CA |
