December 2011 | How To Build A Smokehouse

Blue Smoke: The Recorded Journey of Big Bill Broonzy (LSU Press Paperback Original) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Blue Smoke is such an entertaining read that it would be easy to overlook the scholarship behind it. In using Broonzy's career to tell a larger story about African American lives Roger House refrains from padding the book with information designed to show off his research. Instead he writes as economically...

Holy Smoke Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Great romp through history and literature, definitely free-association. If you enjoy cigars, literature, movies, history, etc, this is a fun book to read. Enjoy in small bites, its pretty rich. Perhaps the experience is a bit like enjoying a cigar: smoke one now, savor it, but don't smoke through the...

A Life in Smoke: A Memoir Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)For the first time, I have a glimpse into what it's like to be a smoker and why they do it. I've never understood the call of cigarettes--the few times I've tried one, I haven't felt a 'rush' or anything compelling me to have another, just a smokey icky taste in the mouth. Julia Hansen's tales of smoking...

Sweetgrass and Smoke Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book was recommended to me by a friend, who just attended a Michigan Hemingway conference in Petoskey, MI. Hemingway scholars from as far away as Japan were there. My friend bought a copy of "Sweetgrass and Smoke" and encouraged me to read this book.I couldn't put it down! It reads like a mystery.Click...

Cooking with Fire and Smoke Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I grill nine months a year on my 22 inch charcoal Weber Grill. My failures have been few and far between soley because of this book. Cooking with Fire and Smoke is an indispensible resource for the serious "griller". It has a thorough introduction for the novice on types of woods, grills, and smokers....

Blue Smoke and Mirrors Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Two veteran political columnists, Witcover and Germond, provide intriguing information on the strategists and politicians who masterminded the 1980 election campaigns. The authors argue that uncontrollable and unforeseeable events rather than issues determined the victor of this election. The authors...

Smoke and Whispers Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In Newcastle, England, a corpse is fished out of the River Tyne. Freelance publisher and Ostrich farmer Sarah Tucker identifies the corpse as her friend private investigator Zoe Boehm.The police assume Zoe committed suicide, but Sarah takes exception to that conclusion as the woman had a zest for life....

Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray? Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Studying for my Masters degree in library science, had to review 100 ya books----this was my number one pick by a long shot! Brilliant character development.Click Here to see more reviews about: Is Kissing a Girl Who Smokes Like Licking an AshtrayClick here for more information about Is Kissing a Girl...

Smoke Screen (Malignant Mind Series, Vol. 3) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)THis new author did not disappoint us with her 3rd novel! THis book is well written, giving us perfect details and leaving us in suspense at the same time. Monique did an awesome job developing the characters and giving us the feeling as if we were actually there inside the novel. "smoke screen" is a...

The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have read numerous books written on tobacco over the last 100+ years, from the fairly dry (Alfred Dunhill's "The Pipe Book") to the too-trendy-to-be-of-any-use (G. Cabrera Infante's "Holy Smoke"). Burns's "The Smoke of the Gods" is hardly dry; the book can be highly enjoyable to read, especially in...

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection, 20) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Do you have a favorite book in the world? This book, quite simply, is mine. This is a posthumously-published collection of eighteen stories by James Tiptree, Jr. (pseudonym for Alice Sheldon). It contains most of her best short fiction. It also contains a compelling introduction by John Clute. Mark Richard...

Serious Barbecue: Smoke, Char, Baste, and Brush Your Way to Great Outdoor Cooking Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have read enough of this book, to be able to say; "I think it's a great book." I own a lot of barbecue related cookbooks and I have had the great good fortune, as the moderator of BBQForum.com, to have read over 700,000 posts to the forum by BBQ people. So I have been exposed to a lot of barbecue....

Dreaming in Smoke Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)So there is a computer-like AI thing with an immersive VR interface. Does that automatically label the story cyberpunk? Most of it takes place outside the interface, while the data collected on the planet by the mediocre scientist Marcsson modify behavior of the AI in control of the colony's base, threatening...

Smoke-Filled Rooms (A Smokey Dalton Mystery) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Smokey Dalton has fled Memphis with Jimmy, 10-year-old witness of the Martin Luther King assassination. The man Jimmy saw kill King was not the man the police arrested and Smokey knows that Jimmy's life is in danger. Unfortunately for both, Smokey chooses Chicago as his hiding place. The 1968 Democratic...

Follow the Smoke: 14,783 Miles of Great Texas Barbecue Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"Follow the Smoke: 14,783 Miles of Great Texas Barbecue" by John DeMers ($19.95, Bright Sky Press, 240 pp.) is stunning in the amount of detail it packs into its pages. I've no doubt that this book may have been decades in the making. DeMers coverage of Texas barbecue is as complete as anything I've...

Beyond the Smoke Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Great YA book for young people who like western fiction. Your young person can read it without fear of encountering anything objectionable.Click Here to see more reviews about: Beyond the SmokeClick here for more information about Beyond the Sm...

Faces in the Smoke: An Eyewitness Experience of Voodoo, Shamanism, Psychic Healing, and Other Amazing Human Powers Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is out of print. But it is one of the best on the subject of the frontiers of human psychic powers such as teleportion, levitation, and black magic. The author's experiences and anecdotes about his travels through Africa, Haiti, Indonesia, etc. definitely have the ring of truth. Especially...