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Dutch Detective Covers

Dutch Detective Covers

More bookish goodness from A Journey Around My Skull.

The Future, by Professor A.M. Low

The Future

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.

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Henry Miller

Henry Miller

Just because.

The Road

I 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.

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Alice Munro

What 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.

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