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Savvy, by Ingrid Law

May 8th, 2009 · 5 Comments

I wrote a whole long thoughtful review of Savvy a couple of days ago and thought it had posted happily — only to notice today that it actually crashed my whole blog and then got eaten by WordPress. Rar!
I’m too cranky to re-write the whole thing or to be “fair and balanced,” so [...]

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The Gift Moves, by Steve Lyon

April 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments

Ok, I sing Dar Williams unironically and can my own produce, and this book was too hippie even for me:

I opened my hand to give away my last gift, the [weaving] shuttle they had made for me two years ago when I came to live with them. It was the last piece of the [...]

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