Better than Fiction

"One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining. Most New Yorkers wouldn't travel to Minnesota if a bright star shone in the west and hosts of angels were handing out plane tickets, but they might read a book about Minnesota and thereby form some interesting and useful impression of us. This is the benefit of literacy. Life is lonely; it is less so if one reads." G. Keiller

Book Reviews

Dec/Jan 08

The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap - Ed. Matthew Diffee
Voyage of the Basset - James Christensen
Escape - Carolyn Jessop
Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited - Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss - Claire Nouvian
Bizarre Books - Russell Ash and Brian Lake
The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs

Nov. 07

One Red Paperclip - Kyle MacDonald
See You in a Hundred Years - Logan Ward
American Hair Metal - Steven Blush
Some Danger Involved - Will Thomas
Michael Palin - Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years
Money Changes Everything - Edited by Jenny Offill and Elissa Shappell
Pontoon - Garrison Keiller

October 07

The Know-It-All and Esquire Presents, What it Feels Like - A.J. Jacobs
My Life in Orange (Tim Guest) and Bhagwan, the God that Failed (Hugh Milne)
The Surfboard - Art, Style, Stoke - Ben Marcus
Sex, Lies and Handwriting - Michelle Dresbold
Where We Lived - Jack Larkin
Ancient Micronesia and the Lost City of Nan Madol - David Hatcher Childress

Sept. 07

Island of the Colorblind - Oliver Sacks
London Then and Now - Diane Bursten
London Sight Unseen - Snowdon
Making Money - Terry Pratchett
The Children of the Lamp Series - PB Kerr
The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
Evil Genius - Catherine Jinks

August 07

Fame Junkies - The Hidden Truth Behind America's Favorite Addiction - Jake Halpern
Teun Hocks
Christopher Fowler's Bryant and May Series
Practically Perfect in Every Way - Jennifer Niesslein
Caroline Graham's Chief Inspector Barnaby Mysteries

June/July '07

Underworld Sites of Concealment - Peter Seidel and Manfred Sack
Ghostly Ruins - America's Forgotten Architecture - Harry Skrdla
Access All Areas - Ninjalicious
There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell - Laurie Notaro
Roller Girl - Totally True Tales from the Track - Melissa - "Melicious" Joulwan
Who ARE You People? Shari Caudron
One Perfect Day - The Selling of the American Wedding - Rebecca Mead
The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan - Wendy McClure
Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes and Golden Sharks - Bill Belleville
Beneath the Metropolis - The Secret Life of Cities - Alex Marshall

May '07

Mountain Man Dance Moves - The McSweeney's Book of Lists
Toilets of the World - Morna Gregory and Sian James
The Commitment - Dan Savage
A Thief of Time - Tony Hillerman

Feb-April 07

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder - Lawrence Wescheler
A Perfect Mess - Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman
American Prospects - Joel Sternfeld
I Am Plastic: The Designer Toy Explosion - Paul Budnitz
The League of Extraordinary Gentleman - Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
Reaching Climax And Other Towns Along the American Highway - Gary Gladstone
Nature Girl (Karl Hiaasen) and The Big Bamboo (Tim Dorsey)
To Air is Human - Björn Töroque
They Call Me Naughty Lola - Personal Ads from the London Review of Books
The Rejection Collection - edt. Matthew Diffee
Graceland - An Interactive Pop-Up tour - Chuck Murphy with a forward by Priscilla Presley
Jpod - Douglas Coupland and Deep Storm - Lincoln Child

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Jan 07

Witness to Nuremberg - Richard Sonnenfeldt
Space - Japanese Design Solutions for Compact Living - Michael Freeman
Your Disgusting Head and Giraffes? Giraffes! The Haggis-on-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance
Mindless Eating - Dr. Brian Wansink
Iron Lake - William Kent Krueger
Still Life with Crows - Lincoln Child and Michael Preston

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