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Title: Out in the Garden: Growing a Beautiful Life by Dean Riddle, Jeffrey Fulvimari ISBN: 0-06-018805-7 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 05 March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Never too late
Comment: The librarian at Skene Library in Fleishmanns, NY foisted this book upon me as I had missed Dean Riddle's personal appearance and reading. I politely took it home. I started to skim read and three hours later had finished the book and made a list of pages to return to for information. This book is a jewel of a read and a must for any Catskill gardener. I have had a "failed garden" for ten years in the Felishmanns area. I used to be a good gardener. Not in the Catskills! Mr Riddle provides a virtual how to manual for my next year's garden. But beyond the practical, it is a delightful, fast paced, funny read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Book to Read in the Garden with a Cup of Coffee Award
Comment: Out of all the gardening books I've purchased for our public library in the last four years, I would recommend Dean Riddle's book first and foremost to our readers as a balm to the soul, an inspiration to gardeners everywhere, and a plain old good read. The focus of the book is informative yet personal: it is the story of one man's coming of age in the garden, his connection with the strange and often-ignored vibrancy of the horticultural world, and his joyous appreciation of people, plants, dirt, sticks, old glassware, fried eggs, and just about everything else.
For four months a year I read virtually nothing but gardening books of all types as our orders come in to the library. Very few of the writers are able to touch and inform readers at the same time, and it is this gift that Dean Riddle brings to his writing. The book is organized in such a way that Riddle is able to incorporate stories into his highly readable and clear descriptions of his own garden plans. Within the space of a few paragraphs, the reader finds himself in Dean's world. The fully-colored images and sensations of Dean's garden stay brilliantly painted in one's mind long after the book is closed.
Rating: 4
Summary: Passionate About Gardening
Comment: I am really enjoying this book. I am not done yet, but I have already started looking at my garden differenly. I am thinking about getting some more garden books to help me improve my garden. This book is whimsical and delightful. The author writes with a wonderful style. I hope that he is allowed to stay at his rented bungalow forever. My only complaint is the books that Amazon suggests you should get if you enjoyed this book. They all seem to be about being Gay. This book is so much more than a book about a man coming out of the closet. I think anyone would like this book straight or gay. Have to go and stroll in my garden. Enjoy the book!
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Title: A Garden from a Hundred Packets of Seed by James Fenton ISBN: 0374160295 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 23 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Time and the Gardener : Writings on a Lifelong Passion by Elisabeth Sheldon ISBN: 0807085561 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Potting-Shed Papers: From Johnny Appleseed's Apples to Sex and the Single Strawberry--Explorations of Gardens and Gardeners by Charles Elliott ISBN: 1585745405 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: My Summer in a Garden by Charles Dudley Warner, Allan Gurganus, Michael Pollan ISBN: 0375759468 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Diary of a French Herb Garden by Geraldene Holt ISBN: 1862054886 Publisher: Pavilion Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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