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Home, Garden, and DIY May 2019
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Titles to Inspire Your Love of Nature and Home |
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| Where Cooking Begins: Uncomplicated Recipes to Make You a Great Cook by Carla Lalli MusicWhat it is: a modern cookbook (ordering staples online is encouraged) showcasing the author's six most-used cooking methods, 70 flexible recipes, her shopping philosophy, and tips for a pared-down kitchen.
Author buzz: Though Carla Lalli Music is Bon Appétit's Food Director, this book focuses on her life as a home cook.
Try this next: new cooks should check out Mark Bittman's or America's Test Kitchen's clearly written books featuring well-tested recipes. |
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The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals--and Other Forgotten Skills
by Tristan Gooley
Based on the author's outdoor experiences, presents a compendium of information and forecasting details that can be gathered from observations about plants, animals, landscapes, buildings, clouds, stars, sun, and the moon
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Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine: Sorting Out the Recycling System
by Beth Porter
Throughout Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine, Beth Porter shares great resources about recycling, explaining the complexity, guiding individual action, and contextualizing its history. This book reveals how we arrived at this state of dysfunction, and what steps we need to employ to be an active participant in strengthening our recycling system. Nature knows how to recycle itself, decomposing waste back into the soil to continue the circle of growth. We should follow its lead.
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| The Less Is More Garden: Big Ideas for Designing Your Small Yard by Susan MorrisonWhy you should read it: It takes a lifestyle-based approach to garden design that'll help aspiring gardeners turn their modest-sized yards into personalized spaces.
What's inside: inspiring color photographs, thoughtful questions, and suggestions for livable, low-maintenance designs using appropriate plants, furniture, and hardscaping. |
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| Learn to Paint in Acrylics with 50 Small Paintings by Mark Daniel NelsonWhat it is: an accessible how-to book for beginners that cleverly drops the intimidation factor by having readers paint on small (5x5) canvases, boards, or pieces of paper, working their way through 50 paintings, which start simple and progress as skills are acquired.
Want more? Try Claire Watson Garcia's Painting for the Absolute and Utter Beginner or Annie O'Brien Gonzales' The Joy of Acrylic Painting. |
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| Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism by Fumio SasakiWhat it is: a contemplative memoir and guide to minimalism with color photos by a Japanese book editor who got rid of all of his books.
Topics include: what minimalism is and why it's grown in popularity; tips on decluttering; why we own so much stuff; the positive changes in the author's life since going minimalist.
Other decluttering options: books by Marie Kondo, Peter Walsh, Joshua Becker, Francine Jay, or Dana K. White. |
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Needle Arts League
Thursdays, 5:30 pm
Library Meeting Room
The Needle Arts League of Michigan City promotes all forms of needle arts. Membership is open to anyone interested in needle arts such as crochet, needlepoint, cross-stitch, crewel, tatting, and other hand stitching. All skill levels and ages are welcome. An exchange of skills and materials is encouraged. For information, call 219-873-3049.
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Duneland Stamp Club
Thursday, May 9, 4:00 pm
Library Meeting Room
The Duneland Stamp Club meets the second Thursday of each month. New members are welcome.
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Monday Musicale: Music…a Magic Key
Saturday, May 11, 3:00 pm
Library Meeting Room
Music…a Magic Key is the theme for Monday Musicale’s annual concert to celebrate National Music Week. Join them for this lively concert and help recognize the wonderful talent in our community!
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Great Decisions
Monday, May 13, 6:30 pm
Library Meeting Room
The foreign policy discussion program Great Decisions concludes its 21st season in May. The discussion this session is A Tested Relationship: The U. S. and Mexico. NOTE: The final session of Great Decisions will be Tuesday, May 28 due to the Memorial Day holiday. For more information, call 873-3049.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Michigan City Public Library 100 E. 4th Street Michigan City, Indiana 46360 219-873-3044mclib.org/ |
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