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Interesting books, films and art that have caught my eye recently…

Recommended books:

Non-fiction

• Adam Gopnik. Paris to the Moon (Random, 2001)
• John Lorinc. The New City: How the Crisis in Canada’s Urban Centres is Reshaping the Nation (Penguin, 2006)

Fiction

• Victor Hugo. Les Miserables
• everything by Laurie R. King
• Anne Michaels. Fugitive Pieces (McClelland & Stewart, 1996)
• Ann Patchett. Bel Canto (Harper, 2002)
• Eden Robinson. Monkey Beach (Knopf, 2000)
• everything by Neil Stephenson (especially The Baroque Cycle, Cryptonomicon)

Recommended films:

• Big Fish (2005)
• Chaos and Desire (La turbulence des fluides) (2002)
• Lord of the Rings
• Paris, je t’aime (2007)

• curio•cite:

  "Obama faces "almost unimaginable expectations. But what we have got is an extremely intelligent, cultured, cosmopolitan, sophisticated, very cool guy in the White House. And that is, to say the least, a change from the previous incumbent."

  British author Salman Rushdie

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