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Nov 26, 2006: Harris, Bob: Prisoner of TrebekistanComments: 0 | ISBN: 0307339564 | Categories: Non-Fiction
Excerpt: The regimen of study he adopted makes for fascinating reading: notebooks filled with information to be absorbed (lists of presidents and Shakespearian plays and European rivers), innumerable cartoons, very often buttock-related, drawn as mnemonic aids; Harris's lifestyle and living room rearranged to facilitate his "state-dependent retrieval" of information once on stage.
Jan 7, 2007: Rehak, Melanie: Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created HerComments: 0 | ISBN: 0151010412 | Categories: Non-Fiction
Excerpt: She came, in fact, to claim to be Carolyn Keene herself--the pseudonymous author of the Nancy Drew books--giving no credit to Mildred Wirt, who wrote 23 of the first 30 books in the series (as well as many other books for the Syndicate).
Dec 10, 2006: Shachtman, Tom: Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish Comments: 0 | ISBN: 086547687X | Categories: Non-Fiction
Excerpt: The Amish, that is--and this is something I would never have dreamt I could say prior to reading this book--are, some of them, too wild for this reviewer.
Jan 21, 2007: Troost, J. Maarten: Getting Stoned with SavagesComments: 0 | ISBN: 0767921992 | Categories: Non-Fiction
Excerpt: But more alarming than the tremors and the lava and the frequent cyclones, more alarming even than the shark-infested waters that put a damper on life in paradise, are the foot-long, poisonous, carnivorous, child-killing centipedes that live in Vanuatu.
Dec 24, 2006: Winspear, Jacqueline: Pardonable LiesComments: 0 | ISBN: 0805078975 | Categories: Fiction
Excerpt: What happened to the men in fact proves to be more interesting than anything that was reported to their families by telegram.
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