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This month, we're heading back less than a decade, to [[Pattern Recognition by William Gibson]]. It's a beautifully written novel of here-and-now, with striking language taken from neuroscience, IT and marketing and a meditation on the lost soul of urban world cum thriller cum quest for illumination. It is s a novel suspended between the scientific and the literary, the mercantile and the artistic, the genre and the mainstream; a literary equivalent of the Third Culture embodied by [http://www.edge.org/ The Edge]. Sounds a bit much? Well, it isn't. You should give it a look.
'''Books of the Month'''
And on to to the new...
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In fiction, Ani is raving about [[The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis]]. A rich, beautiful, heart-wrenching debut novel spanning 60 years and a family of individuals struggling against odds and upbringing. It blew Ani away and left her wishing that Hattie had even more children so I she could stay with them longer. In non-fiction,
In non-fiction, we're going for something for children for once. [[Alphasaurs and Other Prehistoric Types by Sharon Werner and Sarah Nelson Forss]] is a brilliant A-Z of imaginatively presented prehistory. It's a veritable panoply of paleontology and every child should see it.
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See what we were doing [[January 2012 Newsletter|last year]].
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