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Wait, I'm confused. It says she's seeking 70K CDN, so she's Canadian? Why would she spend 70K on what looks like a vocational college (look at the site)? While colleges in Canada don't give degrees, only in rare occasions when the college is accredited and even then it's only in limited programs...

Great Lake Swimmers - See You On The Moon (written for the CBC's children's show Mamma Yamma)

I'm at the office late with my new boss, drinking whiskey, discussing corporate espionage. I will betray an old friend tomorrow. The Informer - Akimitsu Takagi

All from the library: Read: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea - Yukio Mishima Out - Natsuo Kirino Real World - Natsuo Kirino The Togakushi Legend Murders - Yasuo Uchida Still to read: The Informer - Akimitsu Takagi All She Was Worth - Miyuki Miyabe Grotesque - Natsuo Kirino

Recently it's been Natsuo Kirino.

I'm going to be in both Chicago and Minneapolis with in the next ten days, can anyone recommend a used book store in either city? Or maybe in places along the way as we are driving from Toronto.

I've always loved Bonnie Burnard's collection called Casino. But there's also Miranda July's called...I think No On Belongs Here More Than You Do.

Aww, I didn't see your Happy Birthday comment until today! Thank you!

Fiction: The Slide by Kyle Beachy Non-fiction: Design and the Elastic Mind Paola Antonelli (companion book to the MoMA exhibit) They haven't come in the mail yet, but I'm very excited.

I was just reading this about his passing here: Award-winning author John Updike dies at 76 He was always one of those authors I kept saying I would get around to. I'm saddened to admit that the only thing I've read that Updike wrote was this article (John Updike on Chip Kidd | Books | The...

The most recent book I bought for myself was an overview of anarchism from a girl at a punk show last weekend. Despite my reservations it's rather well thought out. It has no author's, no ISBN, no copyright etc., but is called: Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners

Ruth was not the character I was expecting. The human sexuality teachers I have had in my life, all the way from the 3rd grade to college were nothing like this shrinking-violet of a women. But then I wonder, not having read anything else by Perrotta, if it's an inability of his to capture a...

Agreed. I finished, and still feel this. :sad: I think this is intentional. From what you might see later in the book this is pretty much the most thought Tim seems to give his new wife. We're only given the details that are pertinent to Tim, we only know her as well as he does, which proves...

The Giver - Lois Lowry (Children's Fiction - For my boyfriend's mom, she said wants to read more classics, and it's a classic to me) Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware (Graphic Novel - for my boyfriend) The Walkable City: From Haussmanns Boulevards to Jane Jacobs Streets...

I resent that. I actually shook my fist at the screen. I'll just sit here in my igloo (which my house ACTUALLY is an igloo right now because it's covered in ice due to the freezing-rain that's been falling for 2 days) and await the sound of the post-carrier slipping and falling on my walk any...