We have all had great fun getting our tongues around the alliterative phrases like “crabbit crocodile wi clarty claes” – well, you’d be grumpy too if someone was throwing tomatoes at you and getting your clothes all dirty! – and we’ve learnt lots of Scots in the process. Little brother’s favorite is the “octopus in ooter-space”, planting the Scottish flag on the moon.
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My bkkeeping records- The Size of Thoughts August 24, 2008
- The Size of Thoughts August 21, 2008
- The Selected Poetry (Picador Classics) August 7, 2008
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Bestselling Backlist) July 21, 2008
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Bestselling Backlist) July 16, 2008
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Bestselling Backlist) July 14, 2008
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Bestselling Backlist) July 14, 2008
- Maps and Legends July 14, 2008
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Bestselling Backlist) July 12, 2008
- Maps and Legends July 10, 2008
- Recent Accessions
- Hans and Heinz Kirch ; with, Immensee ; and, Journey to a Hallig by Theodor Storm
- The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest (Wesleyan Poetry) by Barbara Guest
- Uncle (New York Review Children's Collection) by J.P. Martin
- Size of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker
- The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace litteraire" by Maurice Blanchot
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
- Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- The alphabet game : a bpNichol reader by B. P. Nichol
- Farewell Victoria by T. H. White
- Further reading
- Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England - Google Books
- History of Penguin archive - Telegraph
- NU Press: Constraining Chance - Georges Perec and the Oulipo, by Alison James
- The Last Avant-Garde by David Lehman - Trade Paperback - Random House
- Theodor Storm: Introduction
- Untitled Books
- Nietzsche : Twilight of the Idols
- Danteworlds
- Red Room | Where the Writers Are
- Notes Toward an Annotated Edition of 2666
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