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Fourth-Rate Reader

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"The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it’s also full of fourth-rate readers." - Stan Barstow

• Added on: Jun 1st, 2006
• Country: Canada
• Language: English

• Listed in: Books
• Tags: fiction non-fiction memoir odds and ends cancon toronto authors

Recent Posts

• Odds & Ends: Blues in the Bookstore

  Posted on Wednesday May 7th, 2008 at 15:42 in bookstores

• LibraryThing's Top 106 Unread Books

  Posted on Wednesday April 30th, 2008 at 23:19 in lists, memes

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  Posted on Monday March 3rd, 2008 at 10:23

• The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

  Posted on Friday January 11th, 2008 at 10:17 in Holocaust, ya, ww2

  The buzz around The Book Thief had been very positive. That's why I bought it. It's also why I didn't read it right away, because it is a rare book that can survive everyone declaring it great. The Book Thief was great. In fact, I am willing to go ...

• Catching Up

  Posted on Thursday January 3rd, 2008 at 15:02

  In my neglect of things around here, there has been a whole lot of reading that has gone unremarked. For this week's Fourth-Rate Reader, I want to remedy that, with all the books I skipped reviewing in 2007. The Anxiety of Everyday Objects (Aurelie ...

• Nearly Human (Andrew Y. Grant)

  Posted on Thursday December 6th, 2007 at 07:15 in gorillas

  I love gorillas. I love all the great apes — chimps, gorillas, orangutans, even my fellow mass of humanity — but it's the gorillas I watch endlessly when I make a trip to the zoo. You can't look at a gorilla without thinking about how they are li...

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