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Department of Book Reports: Going Bovine

If you know Libba Bray from her Gemma Doyle trilogy, you may be in for a surprise here. Going Bovine (Delacourte, $17.99) 16 year old Cameron just wants to get out of high school, with as little effort as possible. When he is diagnosed with Creutzfeldt- ...

From SEATTLETAMMY, Jesus' General,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nick Cave,  Paul Theroux,  Philip Roth,  Amos Oz,  John Banville

Department of Book Reports: The Posthuman Dada Guide, Tzara & Lenin Play Chess

by Andrei Codrescu (Princeton Press $16.95) This delightful volume uses the historical figures of Tristan Tzara, the Romanian poet and V.I. Lenin to look at the split between radical art and ideological revolution in 1916. Zurich had become a haven ...

From SEATTLETAMMY, Jesus' General,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tristan Tzara,  Andrei Codrescu,  Pablo Picasso,  Henri Matisse,  Paul Klee

Department of Book Reports: Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel

Please give if you can. Paypal Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett discuss their graphic Steampunk robot history: and their career in Graphic Novels. Join us for a Steampunk night with this talented team of artists at Jackson Street Books' Lacamas Hall. ...

From SEATTLETAMMY, Jesus' General,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Nikola Tesla,  NFL

Department of Book Reports: The Big Burn

The Big Burn Teddy Roosevelt and The Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan (Houghton Mifflin, $27) For those of you who enjoyed Ken Burn's National Parks, I suggest this excellent history of how our National Forests came into being. We saw terrible ...

From SEATTLETAMMY, Jesus' General,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Timothy Egan,  Gifford Pinchot,  Houghton Mifflin,  Theodore Roosevelt,  John Muir

Department of Book Reports: Books for Soldiers

I started sending books to soldiers during the first Gulf War - many of my friends from college were in the National Guard and were called up for duty. I rounded up a bunch of old books from friends who were still here and mailed them to the Gulf. ...

From SEATTLETAMMY, Jesus' General,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: National Guard,  Stephen King

Department of Book Reports: Marijuana is SAFER

Alcohol causes 35,000 deaths in America each year. No-one has ever died from effects of marijuana. Domestic abuse and violence often has it's origins in alcohol consumption. Marijuana has not had this effect. So, why are we driving people to ...

From SEATTLETAMMY, Jesus' General,  3 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Cindy McCain

Department of Book Reports: The Financial Lives of the Poets

, by Jess Walter (HarperCollins $25.99 ) I've been reading Jess' books for a few years now, and I can safely agree with his wife: "No, dear, you aren't funny." So, in spite of that assessment, Jess set out to write a comedy novel. He has succeeded, if ...

From SEATTLETAMMY, Jesus' General,  26 Sep 2009

Department of Book Reports: PNBA Tradeshow re-cap

I had hoped to live blog this last week, but the Hotel from Hell had the worst wi-fi I've ever seen. If you have to go to Portland OR, and you must stay near the airport, stay at any hotel but this one. Just sayin. The show floor! Table after table of ...

From SEATTLETAMMY, Jesus' General,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Doug Scott,  Timothy Egan,  Kevin Connolly

Department of Book Reports: The Convention Hotel from Hell that suspects WiFi is Satanic.

Please give if you can. Paypal Cause, we weren't allowed internets access. I have lots of pictures for next week, until then, search twitter for #pnba09 I just have to show you Larkworthy's awesome video of Garth Steins reading at our ...

From SEATTLETAMMY, Jesus' General,  12 Sep 2009

Related Topics: George Washington University,  NFL

Department of Book Reports: Garth Stein reads at Jackson Street Books

Heartbreaking and achingly perfect this book is really impossible to describe.Narrated by the big hearted Enzo, this story reminds us of the grace of everyday, the preciousness of each moment. Enzo is a dog who can explain what it is to be human. You ...

From SEATTLETAMMY, Jesus' General,  5 Sep 2009

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