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    Yes. I was there doing some work for them. I thought it was very telling that almost no one that…
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    • I had a wonderful opinion of Scandinavian design until I spent two weeks in Trollhatten, Sweden. Based on my experience…
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    • I have an evil, immature desire to wait a couple of months, then go on his blog, pick a post…
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    • Speaking of Kauai, Koke'e State Park is a geologic and botanical treasure, a joy to hike, and ought to be…
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    • I think that this is mostly true but there is a clear exception when men think that losing an argument…
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    • Lauren now has a post on your post, both of which led me to leave a long tirade on hers,…
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    • Barbara Kingsolver has a great essay in the book Small Wonders where she talks about the difficulties of writing  sex…
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    • Great list though I think Catch-22 makes me cry more than laugh. One of my favorite lines of all time…
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    • My extreme sympathies on the library. I am so addicted that I use the libraries in two different cities. Don't…
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    • If you want to be really horrified, imagine having your mother ask YOU about sex. When I was 16, my…
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    • Along with Wodehouse, I'd also suggest Peter DeVries. Speaking of humor about death, have you read Stiff by Mary Roach?
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    • David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell are two writers who I would actually rather hear than read. Their speaking styles are…
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    • I've read Georgiana and thought it was excellent. And I'm old enough that I remember Jorgenson. I never thought about…
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    • I am an obsessive compulsive reader and I read just about anything (except genre westerns and genre romance) so I…
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    • Well, I suppose today that she is best known as the mother of Mary Shelley but she was a political…
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    • Yes, I think she is really fascinating. If you like reading more than one biography on a person, check to…
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    • Well, thank you. I feel much less ill-informed (at least about these specific things). So now I want to know…
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    • I just finished Lyndall Gordon new biography of Wollstonecraft which I thought was excellent and if you haven't it read…
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    • gawd I feel really ignorant -- I don't why I would be a 'whizz with the server' and I haven't…
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    • Books: Mary Wollstonecraft: A New Genus by Lyndall Gordon, Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys, Short History of Tractors in Ukranian…
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