This is interesting, if a little outdated book about saving money at the grocery store.

There are some (not many) data that I have not found elsewhere: the probable portion yields from 1 pound of a given type of meat or veggies, etc. I don’t agree with a lot of the yield estimates, but the fact that they’re there at all is unusual. Also, she spends some time talking about food distribution, processing before it reaches the consumer, and how that impacts the retail cost of food.

Also, there are interviews with supermarket managers, which make interesting reading, if nothing else.

In general, like almost all books/articles about this subject, it is mostly a rehash of the same old principles: eat seasonal foods, make your own rather than buy convenience food, buy in bulk when appropriate, don’t shop hungry, etc.

I’m not sorry I bought/read this, it did provide me with some new ideas, and that’s unusual, as I’ve been buying “how to save money on food” books for 30 years now!

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This sequence is made up of the books in Partners of Necessity, I Dare, and Plan B as of this time.

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Pseudonyms have always been a “hobby” of mine. When I found the 1st edition of this book in a thrift shop, I had to grab it. Years ago, I sold my pseudonym multi-volume reference, and I’ve always regretted it!

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I bought these books in college when they were new and didn’t think that I’d like them. I ran out of reading material and read them and thought they were great!

As a bookseller, I have to say that Over Sea Under Stone is written in a style that I grew up with, and I loved it. However, younger readers that I tried to interest in the series loved the others, but not Over Sea… because of the stylistic difference.

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Sharon Lee & Steve Miller are writing a draft of a Liadian Universe® book and publishing it online. You can find it by going to their website, korval.com .

If you don’t know the Liadian Universe® books, you’re missing some great stuff!

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I am privileged to have been a friend of John Morressy’s. He was the local sf author and I owned his local sf bookstore. This chapbook is dedicated to me, as it was my idea, and my insistence, that got John to put it together. It is John’s last book publication before he died. He is dearly missed!

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I expect to be “consuming” this for some time. I have these up in between the kitchen and livingroom. After I got them hung, THEN DH tells me he hates bead curtains. But they make me smile, so they’re staying. We’re going to buy tiebacks for them so that DH doesn’t have things hanging around him, which is why he doesn’t like bead curtains.

When I got these, I thought it was 1 string of lights, originally I’d planned to put them around our two front windows for the holidays. But it’s a curtain of strings of lights. And, I’d been looking for a bead curtain (and didn’t know how DH felt about them) so I put them up as a curtain…THEN DH tells me how he feels about bead curtains. Hmmmf.

I said something like, “The next time I tell you I want to do something, and you hate the idea, tell me, okay?” Jeez. You’d think we hadn’t been married for 26 years, or something!

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This stuff is good! Totally a surprise, bought it on a whim. Really liked it a lot. Refreshing, no calories, tasty, no sugar. I mean why drink soda? Now, all I’ve got to do is find someplace closer than 45 minutes away to buy it!

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I’d also recommend the tapes. I can’t give more information about that, I’ve loaned mine out!

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This is a charming story about two Japanese dolls and a girl who’d been raised in India helping each other adjust to their new home in England. There is at least one sequel (Little Plum) and I have vague memories that there’s another, but I don’t remember the title. All the books are by the same author.

A wonderful read!