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Mister Posterior and the Genius Child

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The Execution of Noa P. Singleton

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Mark Flowers rated a book 3 of 5 stars Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston read in May, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Mark Flowers is currently reading Mister Posterior and the Genius Child by Emily Jenkins	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Mark Flowers rated a book 5 of 5 stars The Complete Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra read in May, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
SLJ review: CERVANTES, Miguel. The Complete Don Quixote. 288p. SelfMadeHero. 2013. Tr $27.50. ISBN 978-1-906838-65-2. Adult/High School-Like Moby Dick or War and Peace, Cervantes’s The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha is a novel known more...more
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Mark Flowers rated a book 5 of 5 stars Found Photography by Anne-Marie Garat read in March, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
SLJ review: FOUND PHOTOGRAPHY. 188p. notes. photos. Thames & Hudson, dist. by Norton. Apr. 2013. pap. $15.95. ISBN 9780500411070. Adult/High School–This volume is comprised entirely of anonymously taken black-and-white photographs. Most of them are...more
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Mark Flowers rated a book 4 of 5 stars Up Nights by Daniel Kine (Goodreads Author) read in April, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
SLJ review: KINE, Daniel. Up Nights. 200p. Ooligan. May 2013. Tr $13.95. ISBN 9781932010633. LC 2012049344. Adult/High School–Kine’s searing new novel reads as if The Great Gatsby had been stripped of every trace of glamor, leaving behind only Fitzgera...more
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Mark Flowers rated a book 2 of 5 stars Marbeck and the Double-Dealer by John Pilkington read in May, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Mark Flowers rated a book 4 of 5 stars American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett (Goodreads Author) read in March, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
My SLJ review: BENNETT, Robert Jackson. American Elsewhere. 680p. Orbit: Hachette. Feb. 2013. pap. $13.99. ISBN 9780316200202. Adult/High School–There is something deeply wrong with the town of Wink, NM. When former police detective Mona Bright inherit...more
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― John Lennon

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“One concept the non-old have trouble getting their minds around is the difference between taste and judgment. It's fine not to like almost anything, except maybe Al Green. That's taste, yours to do with as you please, critical deployment included. By comparison, judgment requires serious psychological calisthenics. But the fact that objectivity only comes naturally in math doesn't mean it can't be approximated in art.
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“But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there than words? Language will keep us safe from human onslaught, will express for us our regret at being unable to supply groceries or love or peace.”
― Janet Frame

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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing; that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;�and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost: Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly, I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me.”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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