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A review of Rodolphe Topffer: The Complete Comic Strips by Rodolphe Topffer

 "You can write stories with chapters, lines, words: that's the actual literature. You can write stories with a succession of graphic scenes: that's printed literature. You can also do neither one nor the other, and sometimes that's the best!" UCLA Art History professor David Kunzle has assembled, translated and annotated the ...read more

Reviewed by Barbara - Alicia Ashman on February 25, 2008 | 0 comments

Pushing forty
A review of The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland

  Almost 20 months have passed since I reviewed Douglas Coupland's previous book JPod.  That was another niche novel about Gen-Xers, not unlike Coupland's ...read more

Reviewed by Molly - Central on February 22, 2008 | 0 comments

Time to go

A review of AA Gill is away by A.A. Gill

 AA Gill hasn't liked all of the places he's visited.  For someone like me, who went to Rome and didn't toss any coins into Trevi Fountain, this was a relief. In hindsight, I'm glad to have taken the trip, but I'm not ...read more

Reviewed by Jon - Central Library on February 21, 2008 | 0 comments

Death song
A review of Death Song by Michael McGarrity

 Mysteries set in the Southwest and New Mexico are always  appealing; the very popular books written by Tony Hillerman are a good example of this.   ...read more

Reviewed by Mary K. - Central on February 20, 2008 | 0 comments

Happily ever after, inc.

A review of One Perfect Day by Rebecca Mead

 With drifts of snow everywhere, it's hard to imagine getting ready for the warm months and the weddings that come with them.  I've been to (and in) my fair share of weddings, and seeing an ad for a wedding expo the other night got me thinking about the current state of the American wedding.   Rebecca Mead of The New Yorker was thinking along the same lines when she started research for ...read more

Reviewed by Katie H. on February 19, 2008 | 5 comments

Her majesty is saucy
A review of A Year with the Queen by Robert Hardman

 The one thing I wasn't expecting to learn from Robert Hardman's beautifully photographed volume A Year with the Queen is that Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, is, not to put too fine a point on it, saucy. I came to this conclusion after reading about the Queen's portrait session with famed American photographer Annie ...read more

Reviewed by Sarah - Alicia Ashman on February 18, 2008 | 0 comments

I just absolutely love Dani Shapiro
A review of Picturing the Wreck by Dani Shapiro

 ... and have since I read her 2003 novel Family History, which chronicles how a defiant daughter can unhinge a marriage and entire family.  Then I read her memoir, ...read more

Reviewed by Liz - Central Library on February 15, 2008 | 0 comments

Staff of life
A review of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg

 My New Year’s resolution for 2008 was to become an artisan bread baker in five minutes a day.  But I was still on the waiting list to check out the book Artisan Bread ...read more

Reviewed by Molly - Central on February 14, 2008 | 0 comments

Seduced by Seduction
A review of The Scroll of Seduction by Gioconda Belli

 I'm not a reader of historical fiction.  I get lost in the maze of characters needed to set the stage for the story.  My grasp of history is almost nonexistent, I'm afraid.  Why didn't I pay attention in my history classes?  Why can I remember where Colin Firth was born, but not the kings and queens of Spain?  But when a friend recommended ...read more

Reviewed by Lisa - Central on February 13, 2008 | 2 comments

Light and funny tossed with a touch of murder
A review of Extracurricular Activities by Maggie Barbieri

 Extracurricular Activies by Maggie Barbieri is labeled a mystery but is really a humorous chick lit/ ...read more

Reviewed by Mary K. - Central on February 12, 2008 | 0 comments
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