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Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot

The Bone People, by Keri Hulme: Not the Greatest Beach Read, But…

by Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot on August 30, 2010

The Bone People was selected as the book in my vacation carry-on for a couple of reasons:
The great cover. Sometimes a book can be evaluated by its design, and Penguin Classics is having a heyday with their Penguin Ink series to celebrate their 75th Anniversary. You got me Penguin. You always do.
All those awards. Little [...]

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3 Books I Started and Never Finished

by Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot on August 5, 2010

There are times, unavoidably, that I pick up a book that is terrible. You’ve read about a couple of those books here (do I need to remind you of the staggering mess wrought by the burning flames of failure that is John Irving’s latest?).
Then there are the books that are just so utterly awful [...]

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The Un-fun Parent, by Ian Lurie

by Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot on July 30, 2010

Ian Lurie is good for three things.
First, he knows 83% of everything to know about the internet. (If you’re thinking that 83% of everything to know is sort of high, but not high enough to write a book about internet safety, you should know that there is no one in existence that knows more than [...]

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson

by Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot on July 1, 2010

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7 Etsy Items to Prove You are (in fact) a Book Lover

by Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot on June 17, 2010

For the readers out there who need to express their adoration of the written word beyond having floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, there is no better place to look than Etsy. Bedazzle your home (and yourself) with hand-crafted bookish accessories and never again be doubted of your literary love.
Some of the favorites here at the Written Word are [...]

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