Booking Through Thursday: Niche Books

"There are certain types of books that I more or less assume all readers read. (Novels, for example.)But then there are books that only YOU read. Instructional manuals for fly-fishing. How-to books for spinning yarn. How to cook the perfect souffle. Rebuilding car engines in three easy steps. Dog training for dummies. Rewiring your house without electrocuting yourself. Tips on how to build a NASCAR course in your backyard. Stuff like that.

What niche books do YOU read?"

I love reading books about fashion and style. Everything from manuals and dictionaries to histories and biographies.

A Few Examples:

Fashion Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones

Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You by Simon Doonan

Things a Woman Should Know About Style by Karen Homer

The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Decorum by Kim Izzo


The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris by Alicia Drake

Front Row: Anna Wintour: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor in Chief by Jerry Oppenheimer

The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers by Georgina O'Hara Callan

What about you guys? What sorts of niche books do you read?

What's on your desk Wednesday?

What's on your desk Wednesday? is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Sassy Brit of Alternative-Read.com

This is technially my shelf since my desk is book free (mostly because the rest of my books are strewn about the floor, in crates, on other shelves, etc.)

5 Books On My Desk:

Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani

The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

The Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld

Dedication by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus

Misery Loves Cabernet by Kim Gruenenfelder (the only one that's finished)

5 Non-Book Things:

Vogue with Michelle Obama on the Cover

A Cranberry Orange scented candle

A pom-pom in my University's colors (red, white and blue)

An Empire State Building snow globe containing that building along with the NY skyline

A Miami Beach double shot glass

5 People That I've Tagged to Take Part in This Meme:

http://www.bellasnovella.com/

http://lafemmereaders.blogspot.com/

http://bambookreviews.blogspot.com/

http://mustandlustforbooks.blogspot.com/

http://jo-scrawls.blogspot.com/

Waiting on Wednesday

This weekly meme is hosted by Breaking the Spine

Im waiting on . . .

Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella

Chick-lit

The Dial Press (July 21, 2009)

448 pages

From Amazon:

Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something young women don’t get visited by ghosts. Or do they?

When the spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie–a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance–mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie’s possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Lara, on the other hand, has a number of ongoing distractions. Her best friend and business partner has run off to Goa, her start-up company is floundering, and she’s just been dumped by the “perfect” man.

Sadie, however, could care less.

Lara and Sadie make a hilarious sparring duo, and at first it seems as though they have nothing in common. But as the mission to find Sadie’s necklace leads to intrigue and a new romance for Lara, these very different “twenties” girls learn some surprising truths from each other along the way. Written with all the irrepressible charm and humor that have made Sophie Kinsella’s books beloved by millions, Twenties Girl is also a deeply moving testament to the transcendent bonds of friendship and family.

What are you waiting on?