Archive for April, 2004

The Rabbits

Sunday, April 25th, 2004

by John Marsden & Shaun Tan
ISBN: 0968876889
Brookline Booksmith has long been one of my favorite bookstores, and their latest bit of book display strategy is the sort of thing that helps explain why: they set up a Kids Books for Adults section.
So I now I have another Shaun Tan book. His work, which I’ve reviewed [...]

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Love and Hydrogen

Sunday, April 25th, 2004

by Jim Shepard
ISBN: 1400033497
Shootings, collectible sci-fi cards, Dutch soccer players, meditations by John Ashcroft, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon all feature in the three hundred-plus pages and twenty-plus stories in this book. There is also love in a zeppelin, baseball in Cuba, and unrequited love with The Who.
Which is to say that Shepard [...]

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The Lost Thing

Sunday, April 18th, 2004

by Shaun Tan
ISBN: 0734403887
Technically speaking, I suppose this is a children’s picture book. That is the section of the store where I found it (and Tan’s excellent The Red Tree) but I think that has as much to do with the need to pigeonhole books as anything else.
The illustrations contain a fascinating level of detail. [...]

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