March's Books

What I read in March.

 

I’ve always wondered what it would be like to drive the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. Author Dave Ihlenfeld spent a year doing just that, and chronicled his adventures his adventures in “Dog Days: a year in the Oscar Mayer wienermobile.” He learned that there are only so many hot dog related puns you can take. Read it with relish.

  

Not Quite What I was Planning: sic word memoirs by writers famous and obscure from Smith Magazine
Archie Meets Nero Wolfe by Robert Goldsborough
Farewell Dorothy Parker by Ellen Meister
Farm Chicks Christmas by Serena Thompson
The Cooking Mom by Amy Hanten
The Proud Tower: a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914 by Barbara Tuchman
Dog Days: a year in the Oscar Mayer wienermobile by Dave Ihlenfeld
Dropped Names: famous men and women as I knew them by Frank Langella
Buried in Buttercream by G.A. McKevitt
The Cooking Mom Cooks Up Memories by Amy Hanten
Fonduing Fathers by Julie Hyzy
Classic in the Barn by Amy Myers
Middle of Nowhere by Ridley Pearson

February's Books

In Martha Stewart's Cupcakes, baked from scratch cupcakes are decorated with eyepopping prosting and garnishes. The results are spectacular, but for ome cupcakes expensive ingredients or special equipment is needed. Still, a visual feast.

Martha Stewart's Cupcakes: 175 inspired ideas for everyone's favorite treat

Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
Insane City by Dave Barry
Julia's Cats: Julia Child's life in the company of cats by Patricia Barey
Opposnakes by Salina Yoon
I could Pee on this: and other poems by cats by Francesco Marciuliano
Arsenic and Old Puzzles by Parnell Hall
Hit Me by Lawrence Block
Llama of Death by Betty Webb
Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin: the illustrated history of the heaviest band of all time by Jon Bream
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

Archie Meets Nero Wolfe by Robert Goldsborough

Fans of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe series will enjoy Robert Goldsborough’s new book, “Archie Meets Nero Wolfe,” Goldsborough, author of seven Nero Wolfe mysteries, captures the sights and sounds of Prohibition-era New York.

In this prequel, Archie Goodwin arrives in the big city fresh from small town Ohio with his high school diploma in hand. When he’s fired from his job as a security guard after two weeks, he gets work with a private detective. In the course of a kidnapping investigation, Archie meets the famous detective Nero Wolfe, who eventually offers him a job.