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Books from bn.com, sometimes, and the publishers if they're really small. Because Amazon is the Wal-Mart of the Webbernets, and no one who really loves books can even pretend otherwise.

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I work at independent bookstores, when I can afford it.

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Chronicle Books - Love Hotels

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This is an art book, and this is also one of the places I will visit when I go to Japan. You hear about places like this on CSI, but this is the first time I've actually seen photographs that didn't have the resolution of a YouTube video.

Updated Apr 9, 2007

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Flowers of Silk and Gold--used from bn.com.

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I would buy this on the strength of the cover alone.

Updated Apr 10, 2007

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Chronicle Books - Excerpts

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First off, it's a beautiful book, and cheap for that, with a cream-colored ribbon marker. Even the photography is pretty. Second, it's got brownies and quiche and everything inbetween, including half a dozen delicious-sounding names in foreign languages. Try everything in it, and then wrap it again and give it to someone for Christmas. Better than fruitcake!

Updated Apr 11, 2007

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Hindu Gods [0811836452] - $14.95 : Chronicle Books

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I'm addicted to Hindu gods. I mean, in general, and that's why I love this pretty book. I was Lakshmi for Halloween a couple years ago, and this would have matched my costume perfectly. And I would have paid much more attention in world history: because what fun is Islam without elephants?

Updated Apr 11, 2007

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Cody's Books

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Neil Gaiman is God. But he has to share it with Paul Park, at least during the winter months. This is a gorgeous, enormous book, like everything Chronicle publishes (and this is a Chronicle day, in case you couldn't tell--those will be periodical, but I promise, worth your time.)

A history, a detailing of the legend and a companion, I think it's best for those folks who (like me, ::sniff::) can't afford The Ultimate Sandman, but have all the graphic novels in paperback and want something different than the myriad more scholarly works about same.

Check elsewhere (bn.com or Chronicle) if Cody's doesn't remember where they've put it--they do that sometimes.

Updated Apr 11, 2007

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The 1000 Journals Project [0811858561] - $22.95 : Chronicle Books

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I'm a blogger. I've only had one, but I've had that one since before LiveJournal started letting everyone join. I actually had to get the coveted add code from an online friend. So, given my obsession with making my private life public, this appealed to me immensely.

This is the best thing about being thrown together with strangers during an emergency situation, am I right? Getting to find out random and intimate details that you never would have thought to ask about. Only now it's in actual-printed-book form.

Updated Apr 16, 2007

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By Hand [1568986106] - $34.95 : Chronicle Books

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Craft Day!

I was walking down that little alleyway--you know, if you walk from the Metreon to Market Street, between Third and Fourth street, and manage to resist Beard Papa's? I guess the cross-street is Mission, but it's more toward Market than that.

There's a little bitty museum there, and they had this in the window. Certainly justified, as it was the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, and this book is full of artists getting their craft on. I'm a creative person and I like making gifts for people; but I am so not a fan of decorated Kleenex cozies. The ideas in here were much, much better.

Updated Apr 16, 2007

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The New Artist's Manual [0811851249] - $29.95 : Chronicle Books

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I'm going to own up to the fact that I'm not a visual artist: I know what I like, but my artist-friend teases me with a comment I made on her self-portrait. Which was, "It looks Greek." But when I do decide to invest in some oil paints and wake up that half of my brain, this book will be a great beginning.

Goes into everything, but not in a scary way. The important bits about choosing a palette and a brush, and etceteras, are right near the top, and there's all kinds of suggestions on how to break the rules thereafter. As well as projects to learn on, if the thought of blowing your materials budget on a total screw-up scares the...paint out of you.

Updated Apr 16, 2007

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Conversions [1856694860] - $40.00 : Chronicle Books

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If you're into futuristic and eco-conscious (aka, green) architecture, I'd rec this over that Lomme bed thing.

In talking to my friend from Tokyo, one of the cultural differences that stuck out was the concept of 'myhome'. This is the idea is that you can one day have a place that is fully your own and that you can run yourself, sort of your ideal livingspace. The American dream has sort of become the Suburban dream, and that's pretty sad. This book made me feel better.

Updated Apr 23, 2007

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George Tsypin Opera Factory [1568985320] - $75.00 : Chronicle Books

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I'm addicted to, and in awe of, awesome stage design. You're making an entire world in a space not much larger than the average loft apartment. That takes real creativity and innovation. And it doesn't need to be iPod-friendly.

Updated Apr 23, 2007

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