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In the bookmark realm, back in the 90s I bought some nice bookmarks of laquered handmade paper with dried flowers shellacked on, just because I thought they were pretty. They inspired me to make one night bookmarks of watercolored birds (Great Blue Heron, Pheasant, Chickadee, etc) on...

Food crafts and office crafts are great. Office crafts are the things you make when you are working in an office and need a break. I made a Frank Gehry building out of paper a few years ago, for the editors' amusement. I also made a seriously cool mobile out of paperclips of different...

Wow, Lit, you made that whole country. It's kinda small, but has a cute thing going on. The substrate of fishmeal used in construction kind of stinks up the joint, though. But it sure beats Robert's boat. That is just so macho though. He's got the pioneer spirit, obviously, striking out for...

Were they crocheted? Why did you make them and where are they now?

In America we usually chop off the horse's head and put it in the bed with the bad person. At least that's what's usual here.

Good idea. Why didn't someone else think of that. Okay, let's pass the time first. What's the most remarkable thing you ever made by hand?

OMG, I forgot totally about that one. I like when Ashley stabs Rhett on the steps of the Senate and Scarlett drinks the poison. Fave line: "Rough winds do shake the darling balls of Ashley." That's a damn good beach read.

Nice of you to help, LM, but I think the homework was due weeks ago.

You obviously don't have a kid. Or a kid who reads. My son is 16, and he lapped up the first Potter books, but he was already a dyed-in-the-wool fan of Pullman and the Hardy Boys. He loved Conan Doyle, went on the LeCarre, and Martin Cruz Smith. There's nothing fake about the appeal and...

One of the reasons I appreciate Murakami is that he does not explain those sorts of things, and you can make of them what you will. Personally, I think he is referencing the veneer of society, and the Japanese superconsciousness of brand names, only to create one layer in a layered piece...

uno momento . . . I think I agree with you for once in a bloody lifetime. Closer was suck. I agree with your comments here, SFG. Why?, is the question I must ask myself.

Indeed, editors should be unnecessary, and publishers mostly hope they will be. Talking about copyeditors here. Every writer should know how to write well enough to make copyediting superfluous, but of course in a country where the President can't pronounce 'nuclear' there will always be work...

I have a library room with about 5 or 6 floor-to-ceiling built in cases and that 's full. I would guess there are 20-30 books per shelf and maybe 7 or 8 shelves in each case. Also, we have two bookcases in the living room and two in the bedroom and my son has his own huge collection of all of...

Where are the people who voted for this book? Not criticizing, just wondering. Seems a wasted oppportunity. I'm not planning to read this book, as I have read several McEwans, every one up until Saturday, but he lost me on the last one. That WWI book with the implausible messed up second...

What's a 'Shakespeare novel'?

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This article from yesterday's NY Times is about the growing trend in newspaper publishing to shrink and consolidate book reviews. Can't say it's a bad thing, as everyone knows that the big reviews are all about the reviewers, not the books. Plus, they have long been so corrupted by the favors...

Also on my Gritty 70s Film Festival list is Prime Cut, which I've never seen! Have to track that one down. I did a little Marathon Man a short time ago, but that is hard to watch. I only really like Roy Scheider in it, and the lady on the diamond block yelling ZELL! I'm not crazy about...

I'm on a gritty 70s bender. While it's not the classic 70s crime show, I really enjoyed watching The Boys from Brazil last night. I never before noticed how cool Jerry Goldsmith's music for that is. And though Gregory Peck is the antithesis of the gritty 70s genre, watching Steve Gutenberg...

It's not ignorance. It's actually very confusing. Nothing is clearly spelled out. I bet a lot of people have the same impression you had.