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A Visit From The Goon Squad

June 18, 2011 – 11:42 am

Shop Indie Bookstores I stuck with this one, just because I kept thinking I would learn to ‘come to care about the characters’ as the book blurbs on the back page. Not so. In fact, I had to read a book review AFTER reading the entire thing, just to understand what it was that I [...]

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This CD Just Happens To Be Pure Poetry

April 21, 2010 – 5:29 pm

Music is something I profess to know nothing about, but I couldn’t let April, which is National Poetry Month, slip by without mentioning this wonderful new CD by Natalie Merchant.  Leave Your Sleep, Merchant’s first album since 2003,  is ‘literally’ poems set to music.  The CD’s official website reads I chose works by both well-known [...]

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