Palettes, pastries, our favorite sociopath
We’ve always wanted those Pantone Guide Strips (an abaniko of color swatches). Now Chronicle Books has published this book of color palettes created around themes you could follow or ignore.
Pantone: 35 Inspirational Color Palettes, Php625 at National Bookstore.
We needed a birthday present for a friend who’s been gorging on culinary books.
Charlotte au Chocolat is Charlotte Silver’s memoir of growing up in her mother’s restaurant. As food books go it’s a pleasant merienda. Hardcover, Php995 at National Bookstore. (We got it at 20 percent off during the sale, which ended Sunday.)
We’re huge fans of NYRB Classics and are pleased to see them popping up regularly at National Bookstore and Powerbooks branches.
Amsterdam Stories by Nescio, the first English translation of the Dutch author’s work, Php565 at National. Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by the great Czech author Bohumil Hrabal, Php615 at Powerbooks. A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr (a present from our friend), deceptively simple, sticks in the mind. The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer, a black comedy about marriage and parenthood, Php655 at Powerbooks.
Sherlock fans know that the third season won’t be out till 2014, leaving them too much time to speculate on how the consulting detective survived his last encounter with the consulting criminal. If you’ve already read all the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, here’s something that might help you endure the wait.
The House of Silk, a Sherlock Holmes novel by Anthony Horowitz (the Alex Rider series), authorized by the Conan Doyle Estate. (Php649 at National).
You can catch your favorite duo onscreen in December in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit—Freeman stars as Bilbo, Cumberbatch as Smaug the Dragon.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
April 23rd, 2012 at 00:23
I AM SHERLOCKED. I planned to reread the entire ACD stories to beat the excitement of waiting one and half years for Season 3. Thanks for the referral of this book A House of Silk. I immediately bought a copy this afternoon.