Missing Buildings is a book of traces and shadows, of solid structures and the often desolate space between them.
Another sign that a book's guidance is solid is the imprint of a reputable institution.
With that in mind, I proposed the idea of making a tiny book in solid gold in celebration.
Hail is a form of solid precipitation.
'People expect that you'll be drinking Tennent's Super T and eating fish and chips,' she jokes, but in truth she has been somewhat busier: a runner-up on Strictly Come Dancing, designer of her own clothing line for Next, author of a book about (what else?) rock-solid abs.
For $30 an hour ($24 if you book a solid day), temps, some of whom are at right, attend to such boring-but-essential errands as dry-cleaning, gift-buying and picking up film.
Both had a vested interest in implying that Mrs Beeton lived on, revising and updating her book, a solid matron, absolutely confident of the right way of doing everything.
Depending on your tolerance level for such larkish eggheadedness, you'll either chuckle in delight or roll your eyes at, say, his insistence on providing the square root of a book's ISBN in a review of that book (a solid frontrunner, I feel, for most DFW-ish thing DFW ever did).
Louvish has assembled everything known about Laurel (1890-1965) and Hardy (1892-1957) in one place, and, on that basis, has created a useful reference book and a solid overview of their careers.
