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		<title>Toxicology by Jessica Hagedorn</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another adventure in drugged-out New Yorkers and another failure&#8230; Toxicology honestly advertises the topic right in the title, and it&#8217;s an equal opportunity parade of drugs of all types, for all ages and marital statuses. Inane dialogs and detailed descriptions &#8230; <a href="http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/toxicology-by-jessica-hagedorn/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2705105&amp;post=2944&amp;subd=ftbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>* Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Fox is a devilishly clever book that wraps a novel into another, or rather multiple novels into the story of its author and his muse, and it left me absolutely cold. Admiring the craft, perhaps, but at best indifferent &#8230; <a href="http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/mr-fox-by-helen-oyeyemi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2705105&amp;post=2936&amp;subd=ftbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>*** Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are interested in the causes (and remedies!) for poverty, you will want to read Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, in which the authors suggest that we need to put the assumptions &#8230; <a href="http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/poor-economics-by-abhijit-banerjee-and-esther-duflo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2705105&amp;post=2939&amp;subd=ftbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>* Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson</title>
		<link>http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/ten-thousand-saints-by-eleanor-henderson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten Thousand Saints starts with a teenager&#8217;s dying of an overdose and proceeds to a tedious description of how his best friend moves away to live with his drug-dealing father in New York city and the dad&#8217;s  cocaine-abusing stepdaughter. Unfortunately &#8230; <a href="http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/ten-thousand-saints-by-eleanor-henderson/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2705105&amp;post=2931&amp;subd=ftbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>*** Just My Type by Simon Garfield</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I gushed about Just My Type: A Book About Fonts to my friends I encountered many blank stares and realized that, just maybe, the topic of typefaces (you know, Times Roman versus Helvetica versus tens of thousands of others) &#8230; <a href="http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/just-my-type-by-simon-garfield/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2705105&amp;post=2934&amp;subd=ftbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>*** The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt</title>
		<link>http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/the-memory-chalet-by-tony-judt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Memory Chalet is a poignant memoir by an erudite historian who, felled by Lou Gehrig&#8217;s disease into complete paralysis, lets his sharp mind meander, remember, and ruminate into dazzling essays. The title is a self-deprecating play on words from &#8230; <a href="http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/the-memory-chalet-by-tony-judt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2705105&amp;post=2929&amp;subd=ftbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>** Devil in the White City by Erik Larson</title>
		<link>http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/devil-in-the-white-city-by-erik-larson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had liked In the Gardens of Beasts and I also liked The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, in which the author weaves together the story of the building of &#8230; <a href="http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/devil-in-the-white-city-by-erik-larson/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2705105&amp;post=2926&amp;subd=ftbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>*** We The Animals by Justin Torres</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a terrific book in a slim package! We the Animals tells the story (apparently highly autobiographical) of three boys growing up with parents who love them but who have problems. The dad leaves, comes back, hits the mom, hits &#8230; <a href="http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/we-the-animals-by-justin-torres/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2705105&amp;post=2915&amp;subd=ftbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>* The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one may work for incurable romantics, but not for me. The Language of Flowers is the sugary story of a newly emancipated foster child who magically finds a job, a lover, and a family based on the Victorian language &#8230; <a href="http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/the-language-of-flowers-by-vanessa-diffenbaugh/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2705105&amp;post=2918&amp;subd=ftbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>** Mothers and Others by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding is a learned expose of how the traditional view of one-on-one mothering is all wrong and raising children, humans or not, is usually undertaken as a cooperative exercise with fathers, extended &#8230; <a href="http://ftbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/mothers-and-others-by-sarah-blaffer-hrdy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2705105&amp;post=2913&amp;subd=ftbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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