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Discussion: Z is for Zoo (there is an animal on the cover)

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#19 by: shell pebble date: 11 years ago discussions stats

2.75 stars

This is a loving miscellany of camel that attempts neither seriousness nor humour. It's very pleasingly presented with lots of nice artwork (including far more diagrams of camel saddles than I really needed to see) and a pretty font, thick paper, wide margins and such. Irwin's style is well suited to the camel in that it is dry, but I learned a few interesting things. He does barely anything towards deconstructing or interrogating the orientalism of most of his many texts; this is not an earnest quest for truth but an availability-sampled smorgasbord.

#20 by: Sock Poppet at Play date: 11 years ago discussions stats

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The cover is really funny. I love the camel silhouettes and the "in-your-face" camel is hysterical.

#21 by: shell pebble date: 11 years ago discussions stats

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Haha yes! super friendly camel

#22 by: Sock Poppet at Play date: 11 years ago discussions stats

Well now I have a camel to share.

#23 by: isanythingopen date: 11 years ago discussions stats

Sharc

by Paul Rudd

He's going to eat me!

#24 by: Bambbles Rambles date: 11 years ago discussions stats

Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines

Smudge, the fire spider, sits atop Isaac's shoulder on the cover :)

#25 by: ...Bookfanatic date: 10 years ago discussions stats

Love Comes In Darkness by Andrew Grey

#26 by: Themis-Athena's Garden of Books date: 10 years ago discussions stats

D.J. Taylor: Derby Day

A Victorian mystery pastiche -- enjoyable and quite cleverly executed.

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