eclectic librarian

In which I reference reviews of a memoir by a librarian and a book of cat excuses.

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My review of The Apples in Stereo album Electronic Projects for Musicians has been published on Blogcritics. I really like the band, and I was entertained by the album, but I found that when I went to write about it, there wasn’t much that stood out to me as “ohmygosh you have to hear this!” [...]

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The second book in the Chronicles of Firma trilogy leaves this reader eager for the final chapter.

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My review of Marc Bousquet’s book How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation has been published on Blogcritics. It took me a few months of reading a little at a time to get through it, and I will admit to skimming quite a bit. I also had to put it down several [...]

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My review of Carole King’s Tapestry: Legacy Edition has been published on Blogcritics. I love this album, but I found myself without much to say about it, so I focused on what makes this edition different from previous ones.
The thing that makes this particular release of Tapestry unique and worthy of the collection of any [...]

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