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Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century Best Price: $31.50 This is a very useful study of the history of the book (defined rather broadly) in Japan. It is...	Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews Best Price: $11.28 Why buy an expensive book about anime when you can experience anime on television or read about...	How Novels Work Best Price: $7.43 I've only written one other Amazon review, but I thought that the 1 star rating was grossly...	Flirting with Pride & Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives on the Original Chick-Lit Masterpiece (Smart Pop series) Best Price: $4.75 It is a truth universally acknowledged that magazines should be judged by their best contents...	Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway (Barnes & Noble Classics) Best Price: $4.89 The book was brand new. I paid a good price. The seller was very courteous when I contacted her.



Ecocriticism (New Critical Idiom) Best Price: $18.18 This is one of the best New Critical Idiom titles: well-organized, clearly written, balanced and...	The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics Best Price: $5.00 This of course can be a way to find out about these specific books and experience something...	To Read Literature Best Price: $69.95 Donald Hall takes his College and University Audience through all phases of the critical...	Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews Best Price: $6.00 I bought the first edition, but it took ten years to dive in. The two opening essays, After...	The Sublime (The New Critical Idiom) Best Price: $17.31 Dorothy Wordsworth, in Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, wrote of Coleridge's meeting of...



The Battle for Middle-earth: Tolkien's Divine Design in "The Lord of the Rings" Best Price: $5.69 Fleming Rutledge is arguably the ideal critic of The Lord of the Rings. An ardent student of...	How to Read a Novel: A User's Guide Best Price: $4.78 This book is absolutely useless. I purchased it with the understanding that the author would...	Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Bestselling Books Best Price: $4.88 Disclosure: I am friends with the authors. Neither of the authors has solicited my opinion of...	The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life Best Price: $7.95 "This book is about life as it is interpreted by books." So begins the introduction...	A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict Best Price: $3.85 I've been on a kick lately where I'm reading lots of "books about books," and/or...

13 Ways of Looking at the Novel Best Price: $5.50 "13 Ways of Looking at the Novel" by Jane Smiley was very informative to me as an avid...	Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas Best Price: $3.70 This is one of the books that is long overdue for a book review by me. I stumbled across this...	The Mother-Daughter Book Club Rev Ed.: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh, and Learn Through Their Love of Reading Best Price: $2.64 This warm, inspiring book offers perhaps one of the best ideas ever - creating a mother-daughter...	The Big6 in Middle School: Teaching Information And Communications Technology Skills Best Price: $35.95 Written by Big6 consultant Barbara A. Jansen, The Big6 in Middle School: Teaching Information...	The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature (A Ray and Pat Browne Book) Best Price: $11.18 a book that has many complicaions of werewolves storys and thier origin. Very intresting book if...

The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading Best Price: $1.24 Even though I am a few years younger than Mr. Spufford, he and I started reading at just about...	The Encyclopedia of Fantasy The book should be called The Encylopedia of My Fantasy Critiques. Who wants to buy a book full...	Why Read? Best Price: $2.50 Edmundson is arrogant and elitist in his premise that English teachers and professors have...	Writers on Writing, Volume II: More Collected Essays from The New York Times (Writers on Writing (Times Books Paperback)) Best Price: $1.50 A great sampling of writers whose columns were included in the NY Times arts section. Some of...	The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read Best Price: $8.02 M. Schiffrin's book is a must-read for anyone who cares about ideas, literature, books, and the...

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper Best Price: $7.95 Nicholson Baker's Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper is a fiery polemic dedicated...	The Return of the Native (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $1.76 Fantastic reading of the book. The first chapter is slow due to detailed writing of scenic...	Primary Phonics: Workbook 1 Best Price: $5.83 Straightforward and very basic way to thoroughly learn how to read, write, and spell words that...	Reading and Writing: A Personal Account Best Price: $6.50 I was introduced to V.S. Naipaul a number of years ago principally through his non-fiction. He...	Discourse Networks, 1800/1900 Best Price: $24.04 This is a highly original book about the connections between historical moment, social...

Student's Guide to Literature (Isi Guides to the Major Disciplines) Best Price: $3.47 R.V. Young is a Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of English at...	The Witches' Companion Best Price: $14.24 This struck me as a blatant attempt to make more money off Rice's previous novels. It gives no...	To Kill A Mockingbird (Barron's Book Notes) Best Price: $1.77 The book is about a killer and a man who was accused of raping a woman, The part I didn't like...	Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives Best Price: $7.74 Joseph Epstein's collection of essays on various literary figures carries with it two of my...	Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (Material Texts) Best Price: $36.00 In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century...

Homi K. Bhabha (Routledge Critical Thinkers) Best Price: $13.80 Homi K. Bhabha is one of the most highly renowned figures in contemporary post-colonial studies....	Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism Best Price: $32.40 The surprising claim of this book is that dwelling on loss is not necessarily depressing....	The Emmaus Readers: Listening for God in Contemporary Fiction Best Price: $11.12 Stories matter. Sometimes it's a story that can best tell the truth. When an eclectic...	Reading Early American Handwriting Best Price: $28.09 Reading Early American Handwriting I found this book to be extremely helpful in reading...	Bibliotopia Or, Mr. Gilbar's Book of Books & Catch-all of Literary Facts And Curiosities Best Price: $5.94 This is a very poor excuse for a book of literary trivia. It is nothing but lists, without even...

The Evolution of the Book Best Price: $38.00 I should begin by pointing out that the "book," as Kilgour defines it, is not only the...	Emerson's Prose and Poetry (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $14.00 Whether 'Modern Literary ' or 'Bantam' or 'Norton' or even the 'Collected Works' one comes to...	Unreliable Truth Best Price: $7.98 Murdock is fabulous as she winds us through numerous perspectives of the art of memoir, the...	Using Technology To Teach Information Literacy (Information Literacy Sourcebooks) Best Price: $75.00 Innovative. Collaborative. Tools for teaching with technology that work! Why teach information...	Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore Best Price: $3.56 I first read Shelf Life shortly after its initial publication and I remember being somewhat...

Poppy - Teacher Guide by Novel Units, Inc. (Novel units) Best Price: $11.99 This time-saving, easy-to-use teacher guide includes inspiring lesson plans which provide a...	Engaged Buddhist Reader Best Price: $10.00 This volume collects brief essays on "Engaged Buddhism", the tradition of personal...	Booknotes on American Character: People, Politics, and Conflict in American History Best Price: $0.25 Great for travel or any situation where you have a bit of time to read something short and well...	Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Best Price: $2.95 Reading Bloom is an enjoyable experience even though he sometimes repeats himself and he has a...	The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age Best Price: $5.69 I thought I would agree more with this author bemoaning the fate of reading since I see...

Careers for Bookworms And Other Literary Types, Fourth Edition (Careers for You Series) Best Price: $7.67 Bought this book at a great price, it arrived quickly, and was in perfect condition.	Gadi Mirrabooka: Australian Aboriginal Tales from the Dreaming Best Price: $40.00 Take a journey into the fascinating world of Australia's Aboriginal culture with this unique...	Take and Read: Spiritual Reading: An Annotated List Best Price: $3.75 Eugene Peterson, noted Christian author, preacher, professor, and translator of the Bible...	The Real Middle Earth: Exploring the Magic and Mystery of the Middle Ages, J.R.R. Tolkien, and "The Lord of the Rings" Best Price: $12.02 This book is an excellent read. It is very inspiring and informative at the same time. If you...	Black Books Galore!: Guide to More Great African American Children's Books Best Price: $6.14 This whole series of books is fantastic. The reviews (usually a paragraph or so) are concise,...

Emily Dickinson, Accidental Buddhist Best Price: $12.59 Emily Dickinson, at an early age, became enlightened. Ego-transcendence awakened her to the...

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