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The Siren's Call: Fragile wiring
Most consumer reviews of the iPad mention, among other things, its sleek design — and just what does sleekness mean? To our friend, Merriam-Webster, sleekness refers to being "smooth and shiny …glossy, as a highly polished surface."
In the...Tags: Apple iPad, Children, Movies, Family, Entertainment
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Happy birthday, Toni Morrison
Jacket CopyNobel Laureate Toni Morrison turns 80 today, Feb 18.... -
2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalists announced
Jacket CopyL.A. Times 2010 book prize finalists announced: Christopher Hitchens, Patti Smith and Jonathan Franzen make the cut.... -
Discoveries
Special to the Los Angeles TimesEmbroidered Ground Revisiting the Garden Page Dickey Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 250 pp., $25 Bookish gardeners know well (even in sunny Southern California) the delights of the winter doldrums. In rain and snow they diligently read their way through...Tags: Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Nepal
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Bookstore of the week: Samuel French in Hollywood
Jacket CopyBookstore of the week: Samuel French Bookshop in Hollywood.... -
You can call him Monsieur Ellroy
Jacket CopyJames Ellroy has been awarded the French Order of Arts and Letters.... -
Book review: '13 rue Thérèse' by Elena Mauli Shapiro
Special to the Los Angeles TimesWhen Elena Mauli was a little girl growing up in Paris in the 1980s, an old woman named Louise Brunet lived alone in an apartment above her family. When she died, no one came to collect her things. The landlord allowed the other tenants to take...Tags: Maurice Chevalier, Colleges and Universities, World War I (1914-1918), Unrest, Conflicts and War, France
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'The Last Brother' by Appanah
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThis deeply affecting work, first published in French in 2007, is the fourth novel by Nathacha Appanah, a journalist who grew up in Mauritius. All of her novels deal with injustice — the injustice of poverty, class, indentured Indian workers in...Tags: Human Interest, Prisons, Mauritius, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice
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Changing course mid career
Life often takes unexpected twists and turns, as it did for Jeff Henry, 29, of Huntington Beach. Henry always knew he wanted to be a teacher. He was a volunteer coach in a youth program and quickly realized teaching went hand in hand with coaching. With a...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Medical Specialization, Justice System, Career and Workplace, Health
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Going fast: Anne Rice's Ebay auction
Jacket CopyAnne Rice, author of Interview with the Vampire, is selling many personal items on eBay.... -
William Gibson's cyberpunk classic 'Neuromancer' may finally get to screens
Jacket CopyStep aside, Matrix: William Gibson's cyberpunk classic Neuromancer is finally going to be a film.... -
Playing L.A. Noire: A book nerd detects and tries to drive
Jacket CopyA novice gameplayer with a love of LA and noir fiction tries playing LA Noire....
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