A practical and informative book for the keen and adventurous cook and a delightful bedside companion for the culinary insomniac.

His death was a tragedy to anyone who admired literature, he showed people what a good story can do, whether it was an escape from the everyday life or just a bedside companion.

With the radio as his bedside companion, he first discovered classical music before becoming transfixed by hot jazz and jump blues.

Zhang submits the book to Zhenzong as a "bedside companion" (tr.

These will be my bedside companions for many a night.

Jeanne-Aelia Desparmet-Hart, a decorator who works in Larchmont, N.Y., gave the often lamented coffee table new purpose as a generous bedside companion in her fourth-floor bedroom.

It was praised by Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell and by others, such as the novelist Joseph Conrad, who called it his "favorite bedside companion".

And precisely because they've become so popular - unlike desktop computers they become traveling and bedside companions - the flaws are less likely to be forgiven.

Jack focused on his bedside companion.

He asked his bedside companion, Joseph Severn, if he had ever seen anyone die.