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Guests | December 7, 2009

Theodore Gray: IMG The Cornucopia of Home Science



Reading old books of science experiments for children, it's easy to become nostalgic for the days when you could buy jugs of sulfur and mercury at... Continue »
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The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky
The Engineer of Human Souls

Ailana, August 9, 2008

Slipping through time from war-torn Czechoslovakia under the Nazis, to Communist rule, on to Canada in later years, The Engineer of Human Souls is both humorous and tragic. Skyvorecky was unknown to me until I heard him recommended on a TV show, but I'm so glad to have found this book.
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Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Too Loud a Solitude

Ailana, January 4, 2007

Though brief, this is a powerful, compelling book. The details of the paper recycler's life and art are vivid and will remain with me. Hrabal focuses not only on books but also on the motivation and obsession of the worker/artist and society's response to them. The book is symbolic on so many levels.
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