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The Nearly Departed: Or, My Family & Other Foreigners

7 reviews
Brenda Cullerton

Little, Brown and Company, 2003

It's all in the family.....
I read a review of "The Nearly Departed" in the Ridgefield Press, which I still have delivered to my new address in another state. The review had me laughing so hard, I decided that I simply had to get this book. Having spent 23 years in Ridgefield, CT was a plus as I could picture so many scenes as described and these are NOT things one would see in Ridgefield! Perhaps one would see people ...

Geoffrey Beene: The Anatomy of His Work

2 reviews
Brenda Cullerton

Harry N Abrams, 1995

Great photos, but not much biography on Mr. Beene...
As this is one of the few books available on the artistry of Geoffrey Beene, it is both a welcome addition to the world of fashion-photography books and sadly, a very weak treatment of the how-and-why of his work. The photos are oversized and some are gate-folded, but there are not nearly enough to cover the breadth of more than 30 year's design that is Beene's history. He is and always will be ...

Color at Home: Creating Style with Paint
Meg Roberts, Steven Roberts, ...

Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2008

Selecting a paint color, whether for a home?s exterior or the bedroom walls, can feel like a perilous venture. For good reason. Like no other aspect of our environment, color has the power to profoundly affect our feeling of well-being. And taste in color is an extremely personal matter: to choose a color?a saturated red, an understated ochre, a sizzling-hot pink?is to say something revealing about oneself. It?s no wonder that committing to a ...