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Book Review

Introduction to the Book Review Section

Victoria Bissell Brown
Book Review Editor

     Academics read book reviews the way gardeners read seed catalogues in February, the way children peruse toy catalogues in October.  In the darkest depths of the semester, as the lecture notes, committee minutes, blue books, and dissertation proposals teeter in piles encircling our desks, we turn to book reviews to guide our plans for the next reading season, the next trip to our (local, independent) bookseller, the next late-night binge at an on-line bookmart.  I doubt I'm alone in having remarked, ruefully, to a colleague or two, "oh, I don't read books, I read book reviews."  It's not true, of course.  We read books obsessively; it's what we do for a living.  But we rely on the book reviews in our professional journals to carry us through the lean weeks, to inform us, even to excite us, about significant new books in our fields of study. . . .

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