If you did not know yet about good old truth that book is the best gift, then this article is for you and the best book for a modern miss is a book about fashion. You can choose any one of these books of outgoing year as a present for your girlfriend, sister or yourself. Irreverent written by Carine Roitfeld, This book memoir of the former Vogue Paris editor in chief Carine Roitfeld. Stories about fashion, style, career, photo shots and advertisement, which Carine was creating through the years of working in the most fashion magazine. Christian Louboutin. Bible for Carrie Bradshaw if she was real and a table-top book for any shoes lover. A story of the greatest designer, beginning from his work for Chanel until his up-to-date look books, his collection with many of pictures, which were not published ever before. American Fashion written by Charles Scheips. The book about history of American fashion, which was created under the direction of members of Council of Fashion Designers of America. The book treats of more than 100 the most outstanding American designers with variety of illustrations. Vincent Aletti, Carol Squires, Willis Hartshorn, Phillipe Garner, Avedon Fashion, 1944-2000. The photo…

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A wonderful display of banned books at the local library.

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Another wonderful infographic from www.lovereading.co.uk, books which are considered classics were banned by well meaning simpletons.

I recently saw this inforgaphic (vol. 2 coming soon) from www.lovereading.co.uk, very cool and actually frightening to think that these books would be banned.

An assumptive mind would presume the conversion from video game to book, is likely to be the more interesting adaptation, as the video games plot lays the foundation, leaving the author to fill in the proverbial gaps.

The book editors at Amazon.com have chosen their top 10 books for the first half of 2013. 1. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula’s apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can — will she? Darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original — this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best. 2. The Son by Philipp Meyer Philipp Meyer, the acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son: an epic of the American West and a multigenerational saga of power, blood, land, and oil that follows the rise of…

Today, June 14, is flag day in the United States so I thought this post would be appropriate. My daughter who just finished second grade, decided to do her biography project on Betsy Ross (she had to do several persuasion papers, a biography, autobiography, an entrepreneurial project (design, build, and sell for profit a product – in her case an easel made out of popsicle sticks) and more), which I found a bit disconcerting. As an astute student of history I know that the only “proof” we have of Betsy Ross sewing the first American flag is a family legend which started after she died by her grandchildren. At first I was put off by my daughter’s choice, mostly because of the tale told about Ms. Ross is now told so often and is printed in so many history books that it actually became fact, with absolutely no evidence. Much like George Washington’s wooden teeth (they were made of bone – could you imagine chewing with wood splinters?), or that Columbus discovered the Earth was round (the first globes went on sale the year Columbus sailed, by the way he didn’t “discover” America either) and many more. If you’re interested…