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The Daily Word in book banning, disenfranchised Republicans and gun deaths

A new election rule looks like it will make it harder for Republicans to become Mayor of Albuquerque, even when Dems split the vote.

And Republicans in Rio Rancho are also feeling disenfranchised.

That whole minimum wage law thing? We're still talking about it. Now the servers have their say.

New Mexico legislators are fighting about whether or not they should be allowed to ban books, especially ones about brown people.

2,635 people have died via gun violence since the Newtown massacre. At least.

Who doesn't love trolling celebrities on Twitter? Watch out, though, because sometimes Internet tough guys meet the real deal.

This just in: Kids everywhere love toys.

Pope? Nope.

Update: Smoke rises from the Sistine Chapel signifying that a new pope has been chosen.

    V.22 No.6 | 2/7/2013
     

    Books for Cooks

    Bury Me at Smitten Kitchen

    Smitten Kitchen’s aim is pleasure, simplicity and perfection without snobbery.

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    V.22 No.1 | 1/3/2013
     

    Book Review

    The Most Famous Unknown Queen

    Victoria Rebels

    Before she went down as the longest-reigning monarch in British history, Queen Victoria led a lonely, isolated life controlled by people scheming to use her in their quest for power. Victoria Rebels, the most recent young adult novel by Albuquerque author Carolyn Meyer, renders the repression Victoria endured as a child at the hands of her mother and an unyielding advisor.

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    V.21 No.47 | 11/22/2012
     

    Book Bite

    Of Swine and Man

    Pyg: The Memoirs of Toby, The Learned Pig

    Toby, the chief philosopher of the swinish race, escapes the abattoir and embarks on a series of adventures in Pyg.

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    V.21 No.44 | 11/1/2012
     
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    Book News

    Keeping Their Word

    Old-school booksellers fight the good fight

    Keep on reading, and keep it local.

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    V.21 No.39 | 9/27/2012
     

    Book Review

    In the Age of Man

    Poet ruminates on modern-day masculinity

    Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood

    A poet tackles modern-day masculinity

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    V.21 No.34 | 8/23/2012
     

    Book Review

    Tangled Up in Turquoise

    Tale of family ties is fraught with New Mexican clichés

    Finding Casey

    When writing about New Mexico, it's easy to overdo it. Case in point: Jo-Ann Mapson's latest effort, Finding Casey.

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    V.21 No.32 | 8/9/2012
     

    Book Review

    E.T. on the Radio

    Aliens dig Earth music in Rob Reid’s Year Zero

    Year Zero

    Rob Reid is the guy who invented Rhapsody, the music streaming service thing you may have heard about. His first book, Year Zero, concerns aliens who’ve stumbled upon Earth music, which has caused their civilization to come to a complete halt because they’re so hooked.

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    V.21 No.30 | 7/26/2012
     

    Book Review

    Piloting the Apocalypse

    Peter Heller navigates a grim future in The Dog Stars

    The Dog Stars

    The future is miserable in the pages of post-apocalyptic fiction. The Dog Stars, author Peter Heller's scenario of what nightmares may come, is no exception. Heller's vision is utterly terrible; that grinding-monotony-of-loneliness-punctuated-with-violence kind of terrible.

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    V.21 No.29 | 7/19/2012
     

    Book Review

    Sex on the Beach

    Carnal island tale gives new meaning to “coming of age”

    On the Island

    Yep, I just spent my weekend reading a soft-core novel about a 30-year-old school teacher and a 16-year-old recovering cancer patient who get stranded on a desert island and end up fucking each other and killing a shark. But there's a reason why Tracey Garvis Graves' initially self-published On the Island has gained a huge following, and it goes beyond the outward appearance of a Mitch Albom-style tale of star-crossed pedophilia.

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    V.21 No.28 | 7/12/2012
     

    Book Review

    Dark Days in Niceville

    Carsten Stroud’s grimly satisfying tale awakens devilish mystery in a sleepy Southern town

    Niceville

    Carsten Stroud's Niceville is damn-good poolside reading. And, to be fair, it even makes a go at tackling that whole literary merit thing.

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    V.21 No.27 | 7/5/2012
     

    Book Review

    A Stab in the Dark

    Mystery based on Hitchcock and heavy petting needs a cold shower

    What You See in the Dark

    What You See in the Dark by Manuel Muñoz relies strongly on the outward appearance of being about an Alfred Hitchcock film. So the absence of the creepy Englishman for the first half of the proceedings stands out like his famously bulbous profile.

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    V.21 No.25 | 6/21/2012
    Max Evans was the subject of a panel event ("Coffee and Hot Biscuits with Ol' Max Evans") on June 14 that honored the author and his oeuvre. Evans is pictured here outside his Nob Hill home.
    Photo by Sam Adams

    Author Interview

    Cowboy Classic

    Literary legend Max Evans on the landscape of Western writing

    Age is relative for Max Evans. Technically 88, he’s many hundreds of years older, he says, if you count his extensive traversals of metaphysical time and space. When the Western Writers of America held its annual convention in Albuquerque the week of June 12, Evans—one of the association’s most acclaimed and long-standing members—didn't have to travel much further than his own backyard to attend.

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    V.21 No.22 | 5/31/2012
     

    Book Review

    Dogma Style

    Heather Rutman’s anti-climactic guide to sex without love

    The Girl's Guide to Depravity: How To Get Laid Without Getting Screwed

    Heather Rutman’s handbook on female hedonism is a vapid, substance-feuled journey into the mind of a despicable sociopath.

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    V.21 No.21 | 5/24/2012
     

    Book Review

    Show Me the Way to Go Home

    Toni Morrison’s tale of siblings searching for solace has character but lacks resolution

    Home

    Like pretty much everything else she's written, Morrison's most recent novel is a work of historical fiction deeply ingrained in social injustices. Home’s story revolves around brother and sister Frank and Ycidra (aka "Cee") Money, who grew up in the destitute shantytown of Lotus, Ga. It was a place where, as Frank says in one of the book's many internal monologues, "There was no goal other than breathing, nothing to win and, save for somebody else's quiet death, nothing to survive or worth surviving for."

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