Blades upon Books - Traditionals

[Will Power]

I like the knives alright, but I'd really like to get that book! The idea of a Frenchman living in America and doing cooking is ....enticing. According to Wiki ( a notoriously lazy source I know) he and another man won a competition and spent over 4000 USD on a meal in a Parisian restaurant, and this back in the 1970s...

 

[screened porch]

I have Franey's first 60-Minute Gourmet somewhere.
Jacques Pepin worked for him at Howard Johnson for some time, after cooking for President DeGaule.

 

[JoKr]

 

[bigfish64]

School has been over for me for about a month and a half now, and the public library branch 4 blocks from my house has finally reverted to almost-normal hours and almost-normal operations, so I can go in and browse the shelves at my leisure. So I've been doing a fair amount of recreational reading over the past 6 weeks. I read quite a bit of mystery/detective/thriller fiction, some sports/games books, some math-related stuff, and some classics. Here are a couple of books I re-read recently featuring a character named Lucas Davenport, written by John Sandford. (These 2 books actually came from Little Free Libraries in the neighborhood, rather than from the public library.) The nice thing is that, at this stage of my life, I can re-read books like this as if it were the first time - I recall almost nothing about the plots of the books from previous reading(s)!
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- GT

That looks like a good one Gary. It’s been awhile since I read anything that wasn’t fly fishing related, I need to branch out! Those knives look good together!

 

[Invoice]

Will here is another one for you. I bought them way back in 81or 80 when I was in Culinary School. Chef Franey came in one day as a speaker. We were able to get autographs.
He was really funny.

 

[wouter1967]

Custom slipjoint made by Dutch knife maker Willem Doorakkers.
RWL 34 blade steel with vintage Micarta.
The typography book is 110 years old.

Knife Maker : Willem Doorakkers (NL) by Wouter | Sere, on Flickr

 

[black mamba]

 

[Peregrin]

I've been reading a lot of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series lately. I download them from NYC Public Library and return when I'm done. Easy peasy.

 

[RBB2]

I've been back into modern folders for a while now, but recently had my turn come up from a list I've been on for quite some time, so...

 

[willc]

 

[5K Qs]

I've been reading a lot of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series lately. I download them from NYC Public Library and return when I'm done. Easy peasy.

Gary, I recently read a Reacher novel I found in the local public library branch when they finally started keeping semi-normal hours again in early June. Somehow I missed this one when I was trying to read all the Reacher books in order a few years ago.


- GT

 

[Peregrin]

Gary, I recently read a Reacher novel I found in the local public library branch when they finally started keeping semi-normal hours again in early June. Somehow I missed this one when I was trying to read all the Reacher books in order a few years ago.
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- GT

I read that one a couple of years ago, according to the library's records. I'm trying to read them in order, but I end up taking what is available when I feel the itch to read another.

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[baxtrom]

The Fallen Man’s Prescript of Blessedness, Observations of the Gospels of the Yearly Sundays and Holy Days, or something like that. Haven’t read it, am a lost soul, but it looks nice in the bookshelf

 

[baxtrom]

An illustrated history of fighting vehicles - Tanks
by Halle and Demand

 

[baxtrom]

This one I’m actually reading
The Second Sleep by Robert Harris

 

[screened porch]

This one I’m actually reading
The Second Sleep by Robert Harris

I would have guessed "the other sleep".

 

[baxtrom]

I would have guessed "the other sleep".

Actually that would have been written the same way in Swedish. So you’re right

(I think the vikings where like, ah come on we already have a bunch of words. Reuse one of them!)

 

[Gonzalo]

Old French knife on a Brest bay nautical chart (from an early 20th century French book titled La Mer).

 

[Invoice]

Walter lived in the next town over. He was quite the hound. Everyone knew him. He would go anywhere. Sometimes he would even hold up the train after it had stopped at the station.