Archive for December, 2003

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Slow Loris

Monday, December 29th, 2003

by Alexis Deacon ISBN: 192913228X

This slim book manages to be beautiful, clever, and humorous. How many things -- let alone things available for purchase at just under eight bucks -- can

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Home: A Short History of an Idea

Sunday, December 28th, 2003

by Witold Rybczynski ISBN: 0140102310

Rybczynski looks at the origins and development what we mean by home, which means he examines attitudes about and the meanings of comfort, privacy, domesticity, and technology.

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Peanutbutter & Jeremy’s Best Book Ever!

Sunday, December 21st, 2003

by James Kochalka ISBN: 1891867466

I reviewed some of the material in this book before, when I read the first three issues of the Peanutbutter & Jeremy comic books, so I'll keep

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The Whore’s Child and Other Stories

Sunday, December 7th, 2003

by Richard Russo ISBN: 0375726012

Russo's stories generally revolve around variously damaged men: they are recovering from surgery, from divorce, from grief, or in stories like "Buoyancy", the passage of time. He

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