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Forum: Games and Tabs 05-20-16
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Posted By linespalsy
:up: I just got that through interlibrary loan...

:up: I just got that through interlibrary loan yesterday.
Forum: Games and Tabs 05-19-16
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The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death by Daniel Pinkwater :up::up:
Orson Welles, Vol. 3: One-Man Band by Simon Callow :up::up:
Voices From the Street by Philip K. Dick :down::down:
Act Like a...
Forum: Games and Tabs 05-06-16
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Posted By linespalsy
https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348327345l/1783073....

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The Book of Sand & Shakespeare's Memory by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. by Andrew Hurley) :up::up:

If someone were to tell me that there are...
Forum: Games and Tabs 05-04-16
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https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1439857524l/24886325...

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Numero Zero by Umberto Eco :up::down:

"There. And if anyone is tempted to describe a dramatic situation by saying we're in the 'eye of...
Forum: Games and Tabs 03-28-16
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Posted By linespalsy
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I didn't realize there was a Hitler bio by Shigeru Mizuki. Online fan translation or is it in print?
Forum: Games and Tabs 03-28-16
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Posted By linespalsy
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:up::up:
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James
A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek by Ari Kelman
The Stench of...
Forum: Games and Tabs 02-28-16
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Posted By linespalsy
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:up::up:
Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure by Dan Baum
Reconstruction After the Civil War by John Hope Franklin
Foreign Gods, Inc. by Okey Ndibe
A Raisin In the Sun...
Forum: Games and Tabs 01-31-16
Replies: 2,527
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Posted By linespalsy
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Schodt updated his survey in 1996 with Dreamland Japan. I would highly recommend that if you liked Manga! Manga!, even though some of it is redundant if you read the earlier book, IIRC.

And I...
Forum: Games and Tabs 01-30-16
Replies: 2,527
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Posted By linespalsy
Re: Reading Tab

Finished 6 more books and a comic since my last post.

Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11 by Kathryn Olmsted :up::up:
Edward II by Christopher Marlowe...
Forum: Games and Tabs 01-14-16
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Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1910-2010 by Michael...

Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1910-2010 by Michael Kupperman :up::up:

Santa inhaled from a massive hookah that was next to his chair. All the while his baleful eyes glittered at me. Then he spoke...
Forum: Games and Tabs 01-07-16
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Posted By linespalsy
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http://fantagraphics.com/images/flog/covers/2014/bookcover_hipho2.b.jpg

Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 2 by Ed Piskor - :up::up:

Here (https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2015/8370333)'s...
Forum: Games and Tabs 01-03-16
Replies: 2,527
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http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1422812342l/23012672.jpg

Dream Fossil by Satoshi Kon :up::down:
Forum: Games and Tabs 12-29-15
Replies: 2,527
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Posted By linespalsy
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The Thread's been moved!

Anyway, from my news reading the last couple days, this story strikes me as potentially important:

Japan and South Korea Settle Dispute Over Wartime ‘Comfort Women’...
Forum: Games and Tabs 12-28-15
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Posted By linespalsy
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Finished these over the four-day weekend.

The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust :up::up:
Bone to be Wild by Carolyn Haynes :down::down:

comics:

Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of...
Forum: Games and Tabs 12-28-15
Replies: 2,527
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Posted By linespalsy
Re: What Are You Reading? - Book Reviews

For comics there's this (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=17018) thread, though for a while now people have just been lumping their comic and text reading together in the Reading...
Forum: Games and Tabs 12-21-15
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The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan M. Katz :up::up:

comics:

Trash...
Forum: Games and Tabs 11-29-15
Replies: 2,527
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Posted By linespalsy
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Enjoyed all of these.

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Capital...
Forum: Games and Tabs 11-12-15
Replies: 2,527
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Posted By linespalsy
Southern Horrors and Other Writings by Ida B....

Southern Horrors and Other Writings by Ida B. Wells

It is frequently claimed that lynchings occur only in sparsely settled districts, and, in fact, it is a favorite plea of governors and reverend...
Forum: Games and Tabs 10-29-15
Replies: 2,527
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Posted By linespalsy
Around the World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne...

Around the World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne :up::up:
The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow :up::up: - suffered from a cliched ending though.

comics:
Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil...
Forum: Games and Tabs 10-05-15
Replies: 2,527
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Posted By linespalsy
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latest reading

Shark by Will Self
Inter Ice Age 4 by Kobo Abe
Kitaro by Shigeru Mizuki
Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 2: Bona Fide Balderdash by Walt Kelly
The Formalism of...
Forum: Games and Tabs 09-21-15
Replies: 2,527
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Posted By linespalsy
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Yup, that's why I gave separate page counts :)
Forum: Games and Tabs 09-21-15
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Posted By linespalsy
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Nice. I don't have a page goal but so far I'm at about 15,000 pp. of literature (nonfiction + fiction) and another 6-7,000 of comics. Not including articles.
Forum: Games and Tabs 09-14-15
Replies: 2,527
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Posted By linespalsy
Ack! Fixed.

Ack! Fixed.
Forum: Games and Tabs 09-14-15
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Posted By linespalsy
Ten Million Aliens by Simon Barnes ...

Ten Million Aliens by Simon Barnes

Mosquitoes kill more people than lions and elephants and hippos combined; the tsetse fly, which gives a human a bite of piercing pain that lasts about half a...
Forum: Games and Tabs 09-11-15
Replies: 2,527
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Posted By linespalsy
All of these are :up::up:. Cronon's book is...

All of these are :up::up:. Cronon's book is perhaps the best of the 50 or so (non-comic) books I've read so far this year.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WQRGTSJGL._SL500_.jpg

Changes...