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Entries from June 2005

Screwed-up high school books

June 15th, 2005 · 2 Comments

I checked out three books from the library last week. I’ve finished two (Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas and Ready, Okay! by Adam Cadre) and started the third (Hey, Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland). As it happened, they’re all of a theme. Two are about school shootings (you know that from the [...]

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Tags: Reviews

Library geek humor

June 4th, 2005 · No Comments

Bumper sticker I saw on Washington St. in Cambridge today: “Archivists make it last longer!”
Awww, yeah.

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Tags: Libraries