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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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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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Shelf Life: December 2012

Last Shelf Life of 2012. Gonna be brief. 154. Sunset Park, by Paul Auster (Henry Holt and Co., 2010) I’d never read Auster before, but I’ve heard good things. Perhaps this wasn’t the best introduction. I found Sunset Park to be very disjointed and there were too many pointless references to baseball. I couldn’t get into it.

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Shelf Life: November 2012

Lots of review stuff this month. I’m going to leave it very short, as I’m very behind. 143. The Grotesque in Art and Literature, by Wolfgang Johannes Kayser (McGraw-Hill, 1963) A collection of essays discussing the origins and evolution of the grotesque in art and literature. It was dry, and I felt left out – I hadn’t

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Shelf Life: October 2012

I have an absurd number of books on my to-read shelf. These are books that I’ve bought, and physically have on my shelves, waiting to be read. I don’t know how I’m ever going to catch up, especially with all the neat books that have come out this fall, and the classics I have yet to read.

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