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Book of December 14, 2009
My children learned more world history from Gonick’s series than I knew until after college. In a just world, it would be the basis of every high school history curriculum.
Book of December 6, 2009
I am going to put aside my uncertainties and talk about Oscar Wao and what it seemed like to me, regardless of authorial intention (which is so last millennium, anyway).
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Book of November 12, 2009
Dispatches from a native of FanBoyLand, as he tries to feel out the borders of masculinity.
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Book of October 21, 2009
Demons stalk the earth, science fiction, and comic books.
Book of December 29, 2009
The Einstein Theory of Relativity: A Trip to the Fourth Dimension, by Lillian Lieber