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Book 26 I snagged a charming hardcover copy of Studs Terkel’s Chicago from the Little City Book Sale. It is a mishmash of short essays – the jacket called it “a long prose poem” – pulled together in the mid-1980s. I think I am… Continue Reading “Chicago, by Studs Terkel”
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Book 24 The Dahlia Connection, by Michael Dovell, was one of the souvenir books I picked up in Seattle. Since I told Weekend Assignment that my summer reading goal was to get through them all, I figured I had better get started. A middle-aged,… Continue Reading “The Dahlia Connection, by Michael Dovell”
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The Next Dark Age 