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October 8, 2005
This is a book about bugs. It’s a great book. Sue Hubbell seems, to me, to be a great speaker of the greatness of critters with an exoskeleton. Seriously, this book, with each chapter devoted to another interesting thing with many legs, will give you at least some appreciation for creepy crawlies.
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July 19, 2005
Neil Gaiman’s American Gods is worth the hype and more than well worth reading. It was wonderful fun and effortless reading, and for the first time in a couple of years, a book I read a dreaded the fact that it would end.
This is one that, even though I’ve already read it (thank heavens […]
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May 28, 2005
I finished reading The Powerbook while I was away in Baltimore. Jeanette Winterson writes excellent books, and I love to see what she does with language, imagery, and especially touch. Her storytelling is indirect and mysterious yet intimate, so I found myself flying through the book waiting to see how it all goes […]
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May 6, 2005
Coraline ~Neil Gaiman
This story is fantastic. I breezed through the book in a couple of hours, and i think it’s a great book for sassy and smart fifth and sixth graders. Heck, even a fourth grader so long as they don’t scare easily. I love Coraline’s attitude and faith in herself, her resourcefulness […]
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May 6, 2005
The Future of Life ~Edward O. Wilson
I learned a lot from the first six chapters of this book. Enlightening, insightful, and interesting bits of information about the diversity found on earth, the places it can be found, and how it benefits humans to have other organisms around. Wilson gives so many examples from […]
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April 2, 2005
I love books that manage to take the very real world and hold it up sideways so that different things come to light. Murakami has a lot of fun. The characters all have such brazen, honest moments that I laughed often reading this book. There’s a build of uncertainty and suspense but, like the […]
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January 30, 2005
Vernon God Little was much fun for me as a title because the strength of the title does not become apparent until the last two chapters of the book. I’m not much of a person to get hung up on titles, but it was a bit of a question rattling around in my head […]
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January 16, 2005
I just finished reading The Bridegroom, a collection of short stories by Ha Jin. The book read really quickly for me, three sittings altogether.
This collection includes 12 stories, all speaking about life in 1980’s Harbin, China. The context of the stories is well handled, and enough background is woven into the […]
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January 10, 2005
I finished reading Cradle to Cradle this morning, and this is definitely a book to read if you have concerns about the environment, the things we use, and making the world a healthier place.
Cradle to cradle is not about getting rid of everything we have, it’s not about throwing out all our technical progress, it’s […]
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January 7, 2005
I finished reading Flight Volume One. I really like the book and the organization of the collection. The theme was vague enough to give the artists an amazing range of freedom, yet gives a strong cohesion to the book. I first heard about the book back when it was published because Vera […]
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