Saturday, October 10, 2009

Your World... And Welcome to It: A Rogue's Gallery of Interior Design by Patrick Mauries

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Fashion designer Christian Lacroix has done the illustrations for this cheeky satire of home decor from the 60s through the 80s. Mauries...

Because I Am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas

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Anke is fourteen, the youngest in her family. Her father is violently abusive to her older brother and sister and to her mother, but he igno...

The Rose Grower by Michelle de Kretser

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It isn't often that I give up on a book partway through, but that's what happened in this case. (I made it to page 80.) I liked anot...
Friday, October 9, 2009

The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows edited by Jonathan Strahan

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Australian editor Strahan has assembled a fine anthology of original science fiction stories. (I noticed that his name can be re-arranged to...

What It Is by Lynda Barry

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What is an idea made of? What is an image? What is the source of memory and imagination? What happens in our heads when we compose words or...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst

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My sweetie and I will be travelling to the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival later in October. We've already got tick...
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Saturday, October 3, 2009

The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

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This second book in the Chaos Walking trilogy sustains the tense pace of the first, picking up the action directly from the cliff-hanger en...