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  • Books In Review

    I finished another of the Mma Ramotswe series recently.It was sweet, and lovely, and . . . just a little boring. Mma Ramotswe is still the same intrepid detective-priest-marriage-counselor-social-advisor-dear-sweet-lady…

  • Books in Review

    I don't know if it was the reader, the profanity, or the subject matter, but I just didn't enjoy A Walk in the Woods as much as I did A Short History of Nearly Everything. I laughed out loud during A Short History. Oft…

  • Books in Review

    This was a silly, frothy, fun romp through English 104 ("British Literature: Shakespeare to Woolf").I've seen it called "clever" and "witty." I don't know if those are the right words--imaginative or inventive, perhaps.…

  • Books in Review

    I don't know whether it is more a mark of the excellence of his mind or the poverty of mine, but in taking notes on Wendell Berry's What Are People For?, I find that I am doing less notetaking than simple retyping.At eve…

  • Friday Food Festival

    Michael Pollan really missed out on a catchy hook for his new book.(If only he had had me as an editor!)I was reading his book again in the B&N. It's just as engaging as his last book, only perhaps a bit more diges…

  • Remaking Jane

    I have now watched all the Jane Austen remakes recently aired on PBS. (I did not watch them on PBS, not having a telly, but I'll leave you to figure out how that was accomplished.)I'm ambivalent.Not like I am about the …

  • The Year in Books

    This is the second from my book list that I've finished this year. (This was from the category "Popular Nonfiction.")In Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich recounts a three-month experiment, an attempt at "old-fashion…

  • The Year in Books

    I finished the first of my "List" books today.If you recall (or even if you don't), I have a list of ten books in each of ten categories that I'm interested in reading this year.My first finished book is from Category 4:…

  • A Year In Books

    Well, I just deleted my "Books Read 2007" sidebar without counting them all, so I have no idea how many books I read in 2007.But it was a lot, not even including the cookbooks, how-tos, half-finisheds, and just-a-chapter…

  • The Daily Theogram

    Isaac really devours books.Theo does, too.Literally.Devours them.

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