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Envisioning Information
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Edward R Tufte
Too Many Notes
, November 01, 2014
A brilliant book, perfect for graphic artists, fantastic for any artist, of interest to linguists, cartographers, visual learners, and other curious humans. This was the library book that was taken out repeatedly for months; the gift book for everyone. Reading it, or simply dipping into from time to time, was like visiting a museum and having each exhibit reveal just how and why it connects to you in the way it does. Not just the exhibits, though- the museum map, the gift shop displays, the instructions on how to use the self-guided tour headphones, and the cafe menu would be a part of the immersive experience. Beautiful AND informative.
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Building Stories
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Chris Ware
Too Many Notes
, January 17, 2013
Chris Ware has done it again, but this time with even more tiny pieces to get lost in. This is a hyper-detailed, treasure hunt of a dramatic novel, one that rediscovers all of the fantastic stories in the everyday, as sad and terrible and honest as these may be. The format is part of the story, and adds to the narrative without pretension. "Building Stories" is also just very, very cool.
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Fannie Farmer Cookbook 13th Edition
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Marion Cunningham
Too Many Notes
, August 28, 2012
I've been using this book for twenty years. It's the cookbook that taught me to cook with simple recipes using basic supplies, and it's the book I go back to when I need a starting place for one of my own inventions. A down-to-earth and friendly tone in the instructions makes it ideal for younger cooks who might be intimidated by the kitchen, and it's a good source book for teaching. My only problem with my edition is that the binding gave out with use.
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Small Memories
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José Saramago
Too Many Notes
, January 18, 2012
A small window providing glimpses of Saramago's life, in an autobiography that reads more like poetry. Honest, vivid, and unforgettable, it feels as though you are able to sit with the author in the landscape of his childhood and have one last chat.
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Magicians Book 1
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Lev Grossman
Too Many Notes
, January 25, 2011
This book has a certain flavor about it that reminded me more of George MacDonald and the older Grimm's tales than of Harry Potter. Narnia mixed with a little Salinger, if anything. It has a compelling group of characters, a wealth of landscapes, some genuinely shocking moments, and a plot that I'm happy to learn will be continued in a new novel.
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Skippy Dies
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Paul Murray
Too Many Notes
, October 17, 2010
Brilliant. It was strange to get one third of this book from Indiespensable, but that was enough to get me hooked. Now I own 1.3 copies, and no regrets. Mix Irish boarding schools, religion in the modern world, the mysteries of the 14-year-old mind, doughnut shops, text message haiku, and quantum mechanics- and the result is funny, terrible, poignant and beautiful. The kind of book to inspire the right sort of cliches, like: "It will stay with you for a long time."
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Blackout
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Connie Willis
Too Many Notes
, May 04, 2010
Connie Willis is back with the first part of an epic, one that draws on her usual strengths and exhibits new ones. Time travel features again, though the troubles with that particular type of travel are only a backdrop for different stories of the English people during World War II. Willis is so very good at creating a vivid sense of place, and, more importantly, character, while maintaining various story threads. It's easy to bond with these people who, like us, start as objective observers, only to be completely immersed in a very real, very chaotic world. I am finding it hard to wait for the second act...
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Ghost Map
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Steven Johnson
Too Many Notes
, January 22, 2010
A compelling and insightful read, one that should have a wide appeal. A historical look at disease and the city of London in the 1850s, told through the very human story of discovery. Dr. John Snow and the Reverend Henry Whitehead were quietly determined to find solutions and to genuinely help people, working against both popular theories and panic. Well written and well researched, though the conclusion is less so, and Johnson's epilogue felt a little clunky. Still, the kind book that unexpectedly pops up in conversation often, and becomes recommended by all sorts of readers (initially pitched to me by a fan of medical thrillers, followed by a plug from a biotech professor, and finally shared by a lone literary critic).
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The God of Small Things
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Roy, Arundhati
Too Many Notes
, January 22, 2010
This is one of the few books that I've read in which the landscape, characters and themes inhabit an absolute place in my mind. It seems to be becoming rarer for a work to make this kind of world for itself-- to refuse to be budged, hundreds of books and many years later. At first, this is a gently paced, slow reveal of a novel, connecting a shared history in the small events and needs and colors of a childhood. There is so much here on the nature of family and status, on the way that lives connect in ways that are usually fully selfish, yet may still bring brief moments of happiness. Catastrophe is accidental, or quiet, or starts so small and guiltless that the culmination brings a sense of very real grief. Roy clearly has a love of language, and understands both the social and private landscape of words. She creates characters who are at once raw and dreamlike, inhabitants of a lush world sentenced to entropy.
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