Posts under ‘books’

I've been getting quite interested in sewers and tunnels this year. First there was the visit in March to the Thames Tunnels (which I wrote about here). A week later I went on a guided walk as part of Obscura Day 2010, following the route of the Fleet River from Kentish Town all the way [...]

The other comics event of the week was anything but lowkey. MCM EXpo is a twice-yearly event in the Docklands, full of cosplayers and hyperactive teenagers, which I wouldn't normally consider going to, were it not for the fact that it's also full of fabulous comics folk and offers up a great opportunity for me [...]

One of the most frustrating things about my hard drive failing last year was that I lost all of the work I'd been doing in BookSmart, the software used to make books on Blurb. Well, yesterday I took advantage of the crappy weather to get started on a new one. I didn't expect to finish [...]

We like a lot of stuff here at Mondo Towers, and today I added a sidebar widget from Amazon, with links to books and films I recommend. In case you're reading this via the feed; it looks like this:

The only trouble is that it seems to make the page a little slow in loading, and [...]

En route from The Glasshouse to (see previous post) to meet friends near London Bridge, I wandered past the Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret. I usually give museums a miss during Open House by dint of the fact that they're accessible at other times, but I had some time to kill and it's been [...]

Sarah's posted the mega-long list of children's books she used in her talk at last weekend's Caption: loads of great-looking books for you to check out. Just browsing through those will keep you occupied for hours.
This post on Roald Dahl covers popped up in Paul K's shared GR items last week, and today I discovered [...]

I've neglected this place a little since my epic write-up of my epic meal at the Fat Duck. Which is a bit of a shame, as I did some equally noteworthy and interesting things last week.

Last week I mentioned that the Kuniyoshi exhibition had reminded me of a book I loved as a child, The Voyage of Prince Fuji by Jenny Thorne. It's long been out of print, and there's no information about it online, so I promised to do a post about the book, with some pictures from it, [...]

As promised in my last post, I dug out my copy of House By Mouse, written by George Mendoza and illustrated by Doris Smith. Reading through it again, I was tickled to see which houses I coveted when I was little — as indicate by a pencil caption "my house" on each one I liked. [...]

So, I was just catching up on some blog-reading, and was looking at Sarah's lovely post on the backstory to Vern & Lettuce, with this ace cutaway illustration of Lettuce's burrow:

The illustration instantly reminded me of a book I'd loved when I was a kid, House By Mouse. I couldn't remember who had written it, [...]