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Inspired by my book pal M, let’s wrap up the year in reading!
Number of books read in 2012: 92
Average number of books read per month: 7.6
Top 10 books/series in no particular order:
1. The Baby-sitters Club Series by Ann M. Martin
Goodbye club meetings! Stoneybrook parents won’t tolerate having just three half-hours a week to book a sitter by phone. Instead, Kristy creates online babysitter bookings and hires a Bangalore call centre to field any phone inquiries. Virtual ... Read more
Outstanding!
I looked up Curtis Grahauer and he appears to be a Vancouver artist: here’s an article on his work and his YouTube account. Thank you, Curtis, for such a brilliant moment of delight.
(The book is Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, if you’re curious.)
Well, over the past few months, I’ve become an unequivocal Witold Rybczynski superfan.
This all started after I picked up one of Witold’s books, The Most Beautiful House in the World, from the local library. I’d read his architecture criticism at Slate before, and I knew he was a renowned ... Read more