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The current issue of Time magazine includes their Summer Entertainment Package, a list of 76 things to do this summer, through August, including a dozen books to read and 5 book-based movies to watch.
…and calls The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean, “nonfiction to make you sound smart over summertime gin and tonics: the human history behind the periodic table.”
But they do the best job of selling Gary Shtenygart, Super Sad True Love Story, …”basically, this is a love story between an old-school, book-loving throwback and a steely, beautiful, postmodern woman — set in crumbling, toxic, illiterate, impoverished near-future America. It’s ridiculously witty and painfully prescient, but more than either of those, it’s romantic.”
Online, Time offers a video intro to the package, with only a few of the books, however (a short ad in the beginning):
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June 3rd, 2010 at 4:52 pm
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