Floor Pie: The Art of Getting Lost

Back east, in an old friend's kitchen, she finds an address book of hers that was a gift from high school. The cover is padded with a Laura Ashley-like blue print and trimmed with lace (so touchingly not her style), and she reads me ... Too bad they're filling up the entire hotel and there's not a single room left. So, the hell with it. I put in a Sleater-Kinney CD, soft enough not to wake the kids but loud enough to keep me going, and soldier on to my parents' place. ...

Books About Grand Old Hotels « Old Scrolls Blog

Here some additional enjoyable books on hotels and hoteliers: Hotel Bemelmans, Bemelmans, Ludwig, Viking Press, 1946. The Grand Hotels of Europe, Frischauer, Willi, NY: Coward McCann, 1965. There is Only One Raffles: Story of A Grand ... use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <pre> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>. Notify me of follow-up comments via email. ...

Lindaraxa's Garden: A Recipe From the Party Of The Century!

Truman Capote loved the Plaza Hotel. He "frequented Trader Vic's for Polynesian fare, the Palm Court for Tea an the Oak Room which had the old moneyed atmosphere of a gentleman's club for lunch. His favorite dish was the Plaza's ... Do get this book if you haven't read it. Now that I have it in my hands I think I will give it another read. Thanks Gaye for reminding me! great excuse for putting down my current reading Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of ...

Me, Myself and I - My Life As An Open Book : What am I Doing?

He asked for my number and I gave it to him. He immediately texted me. When I arrived back to the hotel, Gabriel asked to hang out for a bit. I knew what that usually means. Then he was forward and said he would like to kiss me. ...

Retired in Delaware: Danny

In fact, that may be the most expensive part of publishing a book.....getting an artist to create a unique design for the book. I think I just found my cover. Thank you Danny! Oh, an interesting aside. I was so happy with the picture that Danny had made of me that I showed it to my co-worker Dawn who was in the hotel Saturday night for turn down service. I excitedly showed her the picture and asked her what she thought of it. She looked at it and said "Oh, I like it. ...

Minnesota Meanderings: My 2010 Vacation: Day 4

She said we can access this place of peace anytime and wrote a book about it called "My Stroke of Insight". Once his keynote ended, I had him sign a book of his called "The Way of the Wizard", a work that my mother had given me in 1995 ... I walked back into the hotel lobby a short time later and looked to see if anyone I knew was at the bar. On the way in, I noticed Neale sitting at a table in the hotel's restaurant with a number of other guests, having a jolly good time ...

Hope for Yesterday: Rocknrolloscopes: Your Future from The Mammoth ...

Rocknrolloscopes are the union of bibliomancy, divination through opening books to random pages and pondering the meaning of the phrases therein, and horoscopes, in that each sign does share certain commonalities, including planetary transits. ... This guy told me everything so I went back to the hotel with four hours to spare, got in the shower and practiced until I was blue in the face. If you going to be in the limelight, don't just wing it. Think, practice, prepare. ...