T2 Thermal underwear from MEC

Can't survive the winter without these.

City Secrets - Manhattan

We're off to New York on December 21st and this book will come in handy. The revised and updated edition please.

New York Drawings by Adrian Tomine

The Emperor of Paris By CS Richardson

I really enjoyed CS Richardson's first book, "The End of the Alphabet" and am looking forward to his second, "The Emperor Of Paris".

Building Stories - Chris Ware

To prove we still need books printed on paper.

 A great review at The Guardian: Chris Ware's new graphic novel comes in a cardboard box, like BS Johnson's The Unfortunates, or an old-fashioned board game. Inside, are 14 "distinctively discrete" books and pamphlets of varying sizes. Each one of these stands alone, and since – in theory – they may be read in any order, several members of a comic-loving family could happily read Building Stories over the course of the same afternoon. But they work together, too, combining to depict, in rich and multifaceted fashion, the mostly unhappy lives of the inhabitants of a single Chicago apartment block. Ware's box, then, isn't a gimmick, but a sort of proxy. Like the crumbling building at his story's heart, it's a repository of misery, loneliness and misunderstandings. As Philip Larkin had it: "Home is so sad."

At Amazon.ca. (Unfortunately cheaper at Amazon.com). Also at Indigo.

Ralph's - Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York

An amazing book about New York store fronts. The larger-sized version is amazing.

 

Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

A single set of Zelco Mangia Black nesting spoon, knife and fork

For lunch at work. Amazon.com has 'em.

Ran out of Terre by Hermes

You don't want me to start smelling bad...

40: A Doonesbury Retrospective by Gary Trudeau