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Quotable: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

nobody@vox.com(Anna) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:57:02 -0500

"What's particle physics?" asked Bod. Scarlett shrugged. "Well," she said. "There's atoms, which is things that is too small to see, that's what we're all made of. And there's things that's smaller than atoms, and that's particle physics." Bod n...

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I Saw You...: Comics Inspired by Real-Life Missed Connections by Julia Wertz

nobody@vox.com(Anna) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:42:32 -0500

Obtained: New York Comic-Con Finished: 8-February 2009 Story Synopsis: This anthology of comics inspired by real-life missed connection ads posted on Craigslist and in local papers around the country will tug at your heartstrings and make you t...

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French Milk by Lucy Knisley

nobody@vox.com(Anna) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:38:49 -0500

Obtained: Simon & Schuster booth at NY Comic-Con Finished: 09-February 2009 Story Synopsis: Through delightful drawings, photographs, and musings, twenty-three-year-old Lucy Knisley documents a six-week trip she and her mother took to Paris whe...

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My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler

nobody@vox.com(Anna) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:30:24 -0500

Obtained: NYPL Finished: 30-January 2009 Story Synopsis: In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often grati...

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Love as a Foreign Language 1 by J. Torres and Eric Kim

nobody@vox.com(Anna) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:08:35 -0400

Obtained: Brooklyn Public Library Finished: 28-September 2008 Story Synopsis: Joel hates Korea. Why he agreed to teach there defies his comprehension. He can't wait to return to normal life. His year of teaching is almost over and then he'll fi...

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Primavera by Mary Jane Beaufrand

nobody@vox.com(Anna) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:23:26 -0400

Obtained: Brooklyn Public Library Finished: 17-September 2008 Story Synopsis: The Italian Renaissance was a cultural explosion of art, architecture and learning, but it had a darker side. Two powerful families, the tyrannical Medici and their b...

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July 2008 reads

nobody@vox.com(Anna) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:07:46 -0400

China A-Z by May-lee Chai and Winberg Chai Obtained: NYPL Finished: 28-July 2008 Quickie review: Found this while browsing through the shelves at the NYPL. Seemed appropriate, considering that the Olympics are just around the corner, and also be...

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Quotable: "Cats, instincts, and evolution"

nobody@vox.com(Anna) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:56:59 -0400

Evolution does not require that we know why we do what we do -- just that we do it. [Source]

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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - movie poster

nobody@vox.com(Anna) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:16:30 -0400

Read this book earlier this year -- admittedly, because I heard that a movie version was coming out. The book is a fun, quick read; charming and angsty in all the right places. Really hoping that the movie delivers, though with these two cute ac...

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Quotable: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

nobody@vox.com(Anna) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:34:27 -0400

If there's one thing that I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, how matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing t...

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