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New Zealand Book Council video 
Chicago Tribune - 3 Hours ago
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Book Review: Zumba By Celebrity Fitness Trainer Beto Perez [Basil and Spice] 
TMC Net - 5 Hours ago
(Basil & Spice Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 22--Like many people, I was hooked on Zumba after just one class. I walked out of the class, sweat pouring down, with a big smile on my face. The Latin-inspired     Add Comment

If It Ain't Broke, Don't Suffix It: A Book Review By Matt Ellis 
XpatLoop.com - 46 Minutes ago
In one phantasmagoric sequence reminiscent of Victor Palavin (who I have brought up before in this blog: he is the â??thinking manâ??sâ?? Murakami), a night of drinking turns into a potential ménage-�     Add Comment

Book Review: Lidia Cooks From The Heart Of Italy By Lidia Bastianich 
Individual.com - 78 Minutes ago
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and her daughter Tanya Bastianich Manuali take us on a gastronomical Tour of Italy in Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy: A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes (Knopf, 432 pages,     Add Comment

Comment on Friday book review: Reclaiming Patriotism by Rena Zurawel 
Crikey Media - 85 Minutes ago
We are all tribal. And we are territorial. Then we get this sense of belonging to a particular tribe and territory. Then we develop theories, ideas, life style and the value system; we fell strongly about     Add Comment

The Habit of Art | Theatre review 
Guardian.co.uk - 11/22/2009
Lyttelton, London WH Auden, the Oxford oracle, is peeing into his washbasin. He's waiting for a rent boy to arrive in his college rooms; he's stuck over his stanzas; he looks not so much like a bag person     Add Comment

Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy 
Guardian.co.uk - 11/22/2009
Machine gun prose meets labyrinthine plot in James Ellroy's latest, says Sean O'Hagan The title of James Ellroy's latest novel is taken from AE Housman's poem "Reveille", a very English meditation on
Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy | Book review Observer
Blood's a Rover, By James Ellroy The Independent
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The Physiology of Taste â?? Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean  
Guardian.co.uk - 11/22/2009
This 1825 account of one man's passionate relationship with food remains an appetising read, says Mary Fitzgerald Since its completion in 1825, this handbook has appeared in so many different guises
Transcendental Meditation May Keep Your Heart Beatingâ??and Ease College Anxiety Health.com
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The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov 
Guardian.co.uk - 11/22/2009
Nabokov's incomplete last novel shows flashes of brilliance, but why it was published remains unclear, says William Skidelsky This is a book that wouldn't exist if its author had had his way. Shortly
The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov | Book review Observer
The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov edited by Dmitri Nabokov Times Online
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A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration by Jenny Uglow 
Guardian.co.uk - 11/22/2009
A bravura biography paints a masterly portrait of Charles II, says Geraldine Bedell In May 1660, Charles II disembarked in front of cheering crowds at Dover, following a nine-year exile. He had been invited     Add Comment

The Paris Review Interviews Vol 4 edited by Philip Gourevitch 
Guardian.co.uk - 11/22/2009
Jack Kerouac, William Styron and VS Naipaul among others offer stunning insights into the art of writing, says Jessica Holland Writing is difficult and painful and writers are all a little mad. That's     Add Comment

'Bowie: A Biography,' a book review 
CNET News.com - 11/21/2009
"" by Marc Spitz (Crown, 429 pages) isn't just about David Bowie. After the Beatles, there was David Bowie. I'm not equating them, not by a long shot, but Bowie's music felt like a big change from what     Add Comment

Enid BBC Four review 
Telegraph - 11/21/2009
John Preston reviews Helena Bonham-Carter in BBC Four's biopic of children's author Enid Blyton. Published: 6:21PM GMT 20 Nov 2009 Enid (Monday, BBC Four), a dramatised biography of Enid Blyton starring     Add Comment

Steven Poole's non-fiction roundup | Book review 
Guardian.co.uk - 11/21/2009
The Cartoons that Shook the World , by Jytte Klausen (Yale, £20) In what deserves to become the definitive account of the Danish cartoon controversy of 2005-6, none of the major actors comes out looking     Add Comment

Tony Williams debut poetry collection | Book review 
Guardian.co.uk - 11/21/2009
Frances Leviston is charmed by a vision of northern England in a debut collection "O collapser of delicate moods and arch lyrical poignancies! / damper of youthful enthusiasms! / user of out-of-date     Add Comment

The Magnificent Mrs Tennant | Book review 
Guardian.co.uk - 11/21/2009
Miranda Seymour enjoys a detailed insight into the daunting life of a Victorian hostess Gertrude Tennant, a centenarian born in 1818, was one of those formidable 19th-century hostesses whose names surface
The Magnificent Mrs Tennant by David Waller Guardian.co.uk
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Audiobooks roundup 
Guardian.co.uk - 11/21/2009
Sue Arnold on Stephenie Meyer, Michael Crichton, Michael Morpurgo, Neil Gaiman and others Breaking Dawn , by Stephenie Meyer, read by Ilyana Kadushin and Matt Walters (21hrs unabridged, Hachette, £24.99)
Audiobooks review roundup Guardian.co.uk
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Book Review: A tasting menu of savory dishes 
Washington Post - 11/18/2009
The Edible Series of food histories (Reaktion, $15.95 each) has cooked up a plan to answer such questions. Nine of its elegant little volumes have been published thus far and at least 20 more are planned,     Add Comment

Review: 'Otis' by Loren Long 
Chicago Tribune - 11/20/2009
If your last fond memory of a bovine sitting under a tree is a bull named Ferdinand, and you loved Mike Mulliganâ??s steam shovel, Mary Ann, this book is for you, though it includes neither a bull nor     Add Comment

Review: 'Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson' by Sharon Robinson 
Chicago Tribune - 11/20/2009
This is the story you dont know, one that happened after Jackie Robinson moved his family out to Connecticut. The best thing about this book is that Sharon Robinson and Kadir Nelson can retell the story     Add Comment
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