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Time Travelers
Never Die

Jack McDevitt 2009

I think it says something about how popular McDevitt is that I had to wait until March to read this book!? It came out in november last year. You could say its a journey through history and paradox towards hope.

Shel's father discovered a time travel device by accident ( I suspect from a couple of clues planted McDevitt may be planning another book) and then disappeared leaving it to his son who assisted by his friend Classics Professor Dave Dryden goes questing through time and space seeking to rescue him. Sounds too simple? NO?

For McDevitt leads our towsome into some very ironic encounters with the two being accused of being demons in a place where one would never suspect it and encountering friendship and support in the Alexandrian Library of all places from Aristarchus the grammarian who's not disturbed by the possiblity of time travel unlike Dave and Shel who well the title is a clue about paradoxes they have to resolve ... elegant powerful prose! Enjoy!

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Vionnet

March 12th 2010 23:54

VIONNET 1996

Lydia Kamitsis

Vionnet is a volume in Thames and Hudson's Fashion Memoir Series.

There are a few designers who can genuinely claim to have produced clothes that truly are wearable art and Madeleine Vionnet (1876 - 1975) was one of them.

Her training and early employment in dressmaking lead to her being one of the first designers to reject corsets in favour of draped garments with bias cut and the photographs and illustrations in this book show just how splendid they were. She used complex drapes yet the minimal possible seams to create flowing drapes and any ornament whether it was beaded fringing or embroiderery is fully intergrated into the garment to enhance it.

She also treated her workers decently and never used sweat shop labour designing her workshops to be well lighted and comfortable.

Enjoy the Fashion Memoir series! I plan to read the rest of them.

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Witches Inc

March 9th 2010 23:15

Witches Incorporated

K.E. Mills

This bok is so popular that alothough it's able out for a while it's taken this long for me to move up the reservations list to read it. It is the second in the Rogue Agent series.

Gerald Mel Reg (former goddess and queen now a talking crow) and Monk and back joined by Monk's sister Bibbie.

Mel and Bibbie have set themselves up as problem solvers in a small agency and unfortunately for Gerald and Monk that causes their problems to combine and multiply since Gerald is investigating the same company. Whiel the girls are looking for the culprit in a series of petty thefts Gerlad is trying to find a traitor selling airship plans to a militant power.

They're together and in trouble again in a world where magic works ... more or less .

Which is not a good thing when Monk discovers an inter dimensional portal.

So check out the latest book Wizards Squared out now!

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