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Shelf Life: April 2013

April was Poetry Month, and I did get in some poetry, but also quiet a few graphic novels. 42. The Metaphysician in the Dark, by Charles Simic (University of Michigan Press, 2003) 43. Far to Go, by Alison Pick (House of Anansi, 2010) 44. In Reliquary, by Daryl Hine (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2013) 45. Are You My

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Shelf Life: February 2013

Brief notes on books read in February 2013. 13. Illuminations, by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by John Ashbury (W. W. Norton & Company, 2012) 14. Illyria: Haunted, by Scott Tipton (IDW, 2011) 15. Poems for an Oil-Free Coast (Red Tower Bookworks, 2012) Reviewed for Broken Pencil. 16. You Are Here, by James Pollock (Porcupine’s Quill, 2012) An excellent

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Largely Literary Linkage: VIDA, transparency, Hamlet, and ereaders

Google Reader is disappearing as of July 1st, 2013. Which marks the death of one of the very few Google products I use these days. Slate.com has created a graveyard of dead Google products. I’d long since forgotten about most of these, and there were more than a few I hadn’t heard of. But the Reader? That

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Shelf Life: January 2013

So many books to read. So little time. I’m not going to go into detail with every book, just highlight a few of them. 1. How to Be a Woman, by Caitlin Moran (Harper, 2012) I had difficulty with this one. Moran’s clearly well read, yet this reads like a stream of consciousness monologue, only less eloquent.

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