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Dutch Detective Covers
August 8, 2010 - 4:33pm | MelvixMore bookish goodness from A Journey Around My Skull.
The Future, by Professor A.M. Low
February 18, 2010 - 2:20pm | Melvix
I found this delightful book in my in-laws' basement a few years ago: The Future, by A.M. Low. Published in 1925 with nine glorious illustrations, which I've scanned for your pleasure.
read more »The Road
September 29, 2006 - 12:20pm | MelvixI just finished The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. I liked it, but I wouldn't recommend it to you unless you don't mind risking the nightmares you might have after reading it. Yeesh.
I don't know if I can say much about it that isn't said better here in this review at the Village Voice.
Alice Munro
January 27, 2006 - 11:47am | MelvixWhat a fantastic writer Alice Munro is.
I just finished Open Secrets, which was, well, fantastic. Now I'm going to have to read all her books. I love discovering a prolific author and spending the next months or years reading everything by them.





