Book Description
For designers working in every medium, layout is arguable the most basic, and most important, element. Effective layout is essential to communication and enables the end user to not only be drawn in with an innovative design but to digest information easily.
Making and Breaking the Grid is a comprehensive layout design workshop that assumes that in order to effectively break the rules of grid-based design, one must first understand those rules and see them applies to real-world projects.
Text reveals top designers' work in process and rationale. Projects with similar characteristics are linked through a simple notational system that encourages exploration and comparison of structure ideas. Also included are historical overviews that summarize the development of layout concepts, both grid-based and non-grid based, in modern design practice.
Customer Reviews:
Great book for designers.......2007-09-28
It has a lot of examples and explanations of grid and grid-related layouts.
A good reference guide for designers, whether they are students ore professionals.
essential structure.......2007-09-05
You may think this book is a little dry, but it is really essential to learn how to use and when you can violate the grid when creating layouts for print or web projects. A must have for any student in graphic design. Also try Kimberly Elam's "Grid Systems" book if you need additional resources.
The big book of clarity and chaos.......2007-07-21
What a strange publication. Divided into two sections the first explaining grid formatting with actual printed material and the second revealing how to design print without a grid.
There seems a contradiction here because the grid, used intelligently, will allow a whole range of graphic options to be presented with clarity. Some of the print examples reproduced in the first section do show this with perhaps the most useful item a grid thumbnail for each piece, unfortunately I thought it was rather too small on each spread despite being the key to explaining each format. From past experience, designing magazines, I would start work on a grid by concentrating on the text type size because it is the least flexible of all the elements on the page. This point really wasn't made enough of in the book's chapter: Grid Basics.
The reproductions show a reasonable range of design solutions, essentially print though there is an example of corporate signage. Missing are magazines (consumer or trade) timetables and the like. Without a grid this type of printed matter really wouldn't exist.
The book's contradiction, to my mind, start with the second section: 'Grid Deconstructions and Non-Grid-Based Design Projects'. The forty items shown seem to have a couple of common threads: their design is essentially arbitrary which makes them look very messy and frequently their typography (display and text) is used as a design element which makes the words unreadable. Their design is the opposite of grid stimulated creativity, in other words visual chaos.
Some of the examples are quite amazing. On page 180-181 twelve pages of a calendar are shown, totally useless as its impossible to see the days and dates. Pages 188-189 show eight spreads from a design school journal showing irregular shaped blocks of text creating a sort of collage. I doubt anyone made the effort to read any of it. What is interesting about this second section material is that so much of it comes from educational establishments. In the real world all this designer whimsy would be rejected by the client on sight of the first dummy
'Making and Breaking the Grid' is well printed with 175dpi and the layout is adequate and for a book about grids you would have thought its own grid would have been included but it is strangely missing. Overall I felt that because the contents present two opposite design ideals the book's editorial concept is rather flawed.
From my experience there is only one book that really explains it all: Muller-Brockmann's Grid Systems in Graphic Design published in Switzerland and full of good solid, practical, hands-on information. This book's only purpose is creative clarity.
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good.......2007-06-23
I really enjoy this book, though it is not my absolute absolute favorite. It is still a good addition to any designer's collection and it is written by one of the most knowledgeable in grid design.
It is well-thought and very interesting. A bit unlike the other grid books - in a good way.
kukkimom.......2007-06-01
One of the best graphic design books for exploring the grid. Lots of photos with grid diagrams -- everything from print to web projects are featured.
Book Description
This latest volume in Rockport's Workbook series, Publication Design Workbook is packed with information regarding the ins and outs of publication design. The media featured includes magazines, literature systems, newsletters, exhibition catalogs, annual reports, newspapers, and retail catalogs. Both current and historical approaches are provided to give readers a complete background on design style, application, and techniques involved in creating effective publications.
Readers will develop a clear understanding of publication design through a comprehensive and accessible workshop-style format. Fundamentals of form and content are included, along with diagrams to further textual understanding. This is the most complete book for designers on applied publication design principles combined with an awe-inspiring collection of the best work from around the world.
Customer Reviews:
Best Real-World Examples.......2006-10-15
I blame Amazon for this horrible problem I have with buying gillions of design books...most are good references but not really day-2-day tools and inspiration...in my lastest order, got this book and RIGHT AWAY I was stoked with the samples and the dogma presented. YIPPEE!
Nice but..........2006-06-27
As with other books by Samara (e.g. Typography Workbook), this one is filled with beautiful and relevant examples. My only gripe would be that... the type used for the main text is too light and hard to read! - which kind of contradicts the subject? :-/
Needs a Glossary.......2006-06-17
As an introduction to publication design the book is good.
The only criticism I have is that there is no glossary or even an index. There are some places in the book where a term is introduced before it's been described so at times I was wondering if I'd missed something. The term is eventually described, usually a couple of paragraphs or sometimes pages later, so if you're not reading the book from beginning to end it can be difficult to find the place where a term is described.
The book does not offer an exhaustive treatment of design principles and I will buy other books to learn more, but it's been a helpful introduction.
REVIEW.......2006-03-21
This book is great. I'm not even finshed with it yet and already I've learned a lot. It's full of usefull tips that I never learned in school. It is a wlecome contrast to the many industry books that show you lot of examples but no explanations for the principles behind the design. I would highly recommend this book.
Book Description
New in paperback, The Typography Workbook provides an at-a-glance reference book for designers on all aspects of type.
The book is part of Rockport's popular Workbook series of practical and inspirational workbooks that cover all the fundamental areas of the graphic design business. This book presents an abundance of information on type - the cornerstone of graphic design - succinctly and to the point, so that designers can get the information they need quickly and easily.
Whereas many other books on type are either very technical or showcase oriented, this book offers ideas and inspiration through hundreds of real-life projects showing successful, well-crafted usage of type. The book also offers a variety of other content, including choosing fonts, sizes, and colors; incorporating text and illustrations; avoiding common mistakes in text usage; and teaching rules by which to live (and work) by.
Customer Reviews:
qualified rare type book.......2007-08-30
There is tons of type book around but this is one of the most useful type book on my shelf, recommend it.
good type book.......2007-08-14
This book is great to have and read. Works as a reference as well and can be used to get some ideas. If your interested in type and graphic design consider getting this book.
great intro.......2007-08-03
it give a great understanding of type and where you can take it. a perfect book for beginning students and other trying to better their designs and layouts.
Excellent author.......2007-03-30
A very good overview of typography in everyday situations, as a how-to and as shown by example. Many of the examples are in a style I don't personally like (I'm a traditionalist by nature and modern typography often borders on the chaotic in my opinion) but as a designer seeing what's being done out there is a necessity. This book is more than just a typographic showcase of current thought and work - it presents sound principles that underscore what's presented.
Typography Workbook.......2006-02-09
This book is very informative for designers working with typography. It applies to all different skill levels, there is always something to learn and this book is great to refer back to. I would recommend this book to all graphic designers. This book does not explain everything, but it is good to have as a close reference.
Book Description
More frisbees are sold each year than baseballs, basketballs and footballs combined. Yet these familiar flying objects have subtle and clever aerodynamic and gyrodynamic properties which are only recently being documented by wind tunnel and other studies. In common with other rotating bodies discussed in this readily accessible book, they are typically not treated in textbooks of aeronautics and the literature is scattered in a variety of places. This book develops the theme of disc-wings and spinning aerospace vehicles in parallel. Since many of the examples are recreational, anyone who enjoys these activities will likely find it profitable and enjoyable. In addition to spinning objects of various shapes, several exotic manned aircraft with disc planforms have been proposed and a prototypes built – these include a Nazi ‘secret weapon’ and the De Havilland Avrocar, also discussed in the book. Boomerangs represent another category of spinning aerodynamic body whose behavior can only be understood by coupling aerodynamics with gyrodynamics. The narrative, supported by equations and graphs, explains how the shape and throw of a boomerang relates to its trajectory. The natural world presents still other examples, namely the samaras or ‘seed-wings’ of many tree species, which autorotate during their descent, like a helicopter whose engine has failed. The flight performance of these spinning wings directly affects the dispersal and thus the evolutionary competitiveness of the trees concerned. Samara-type configurations are also considered for instrumentation and other payload dispersal applications. In short, the book discusses a range of familiar, connected, but largely undeveloped, topics in an accessible, but complete, manner.
Customer Reviews:
Spinning Flight - the fascination of things that spin in the air and in space.......2007-01-15
Spinning Flight is for the reader who is curious about spinning and flying things. Some may wonder why do skipping stones veer to the right, why does a Frisbee veer to the left at the end of its flight, why do golf balls have dimples, how does a boomerang work. Others may be interested in spin stabilization of bullets, bombs, rockets. Still others will be fascinated by the role of spin in spaceflight, the landing of probes on distant bodies or by what spin can tell about the formation and life story of asteroids and comets. Lorenz uses a minimum of vector mechanics and equations to explain these phenomena and provides many illustrations based on cleverly instrumented flight experiments. Next time you skip a stone, you will think of it as a rewarding experiment not just an idle pleasure.
Favorable Review.......2007-01-07
(I am the author - I think the book is not half bad - but let me quote from a recent
review of the book by H. K. Moffatt {whom I do not know} in Nature magazine (Vol.444,
14 Dec 2006 p.820):
'In his fascinating book Spinning Flight, Ralph Lorenz provides a rich feast of examples
of such spinning bodies, some occurring naturally, some contrived for pleasure or for a
practical purpose, some exotic..........Lorenz covers these phenomena and their various
manifestations with great skill and economy of exposition, whetting the appetite for the
more detailed treatments that he cites in an extensive list of references, many quite recent...
The book is well organized....there may be something for every one within its attractively
designed cover
Book Description
The graphic design equivalent to Strunk & White's The Elements of Style
This book is simply the most compact and lucid handbook available outlining the basic principles of layout, typography, color usage, and space.
Being a creative designer is often about coming up with unique design solutions. Unfortunately, when the basic rules of design are ignored in an effort to be distinctive, design becomes useless. In language, a departure from the rules is only appreciated as great literature if recognition of the rules underlies the text. Graphic design is a "visual language," and brilliance is recognized in designers whose work seems to break all the rules, yet communicates its messages clearly.
This book is a fun and accessible handbook that presents the fundamentals of design in lists, tips, brief text, and examples. Chapters include Graphic Design: What It Is; What Are They and What Do They Do?; 20 Basic Rules of Good Design; Form and Space-The Basics; Color Fundamentals; Choosing and Using Type; The World of Imagery; Putting it All Together?Essential Layout Concepts; The Right Design Choices: 20 Reminders for Working Designers; and Breaking the Rules: When and Why to Challenge all the Rules of this Book.
Customer Reviews:
just perfect.......2007-09-14
timothy samara just gathered a bunch of useful and important information in one book, making it clear, well explained and very very well organized. great for anyone who's running away from "just visual reference" books, and want to take more from a book than just copied (or "inspired") ideas.
Next best thing to going to design school.......2007-06-28
As a graphic designer with little academic preparation in the field (my college major was in psychology, supplemented by a handful of college-level art classes and several continuing education classes in Adobe software & printing technologies), I rely heavily on books for my continued growth and education. Over the past few years, I've amassed a rather large library of graphic design books. The vast majority of my collection falls into one of two categories - either "technical" (dealing with software & printing techniques) or "eye candy" (fun to look at and good for inspiring a new idea now and then, but not suited to actually improving my design skills). Timothy Samara's books are one of the few exceptions. I actually *read* his books and learn a great deal about design from them.
Design Elements is the best primer on graphic design I've encountered. It starts out with 20 rules for good design, while readily admitting that rules are meant to be broken, once you fully understand them and can break them *deliberately*. It goes on to cover the topics of form & space, color, typography, images, and layout. Finished examples are combined with simple thumbnail "studies" that illustrate the concepts quite well and provide you a springboard for playing around on your own. The textual portions are concise and well-written.
I heartily recommend this book for anyone seeking a serious, concise overview of all the major elements of graphic design - whether you're a student or a seasoned professional looking for a good reference book/refresher. Yes, there are books out there that cover each of these topics in much greater depth. But for what this book attempts to do, it does amazingly well.
Straight-forward and informative.......2007-05-25
I have found this book very informative and it is written in a very straight-forward manner. Tim Samara highlights the important "rules" of graphic design, gives many examples to illustrate them, and, like the title says, helps you know when to break them. I highly recommend this book to every beginning design student.
Book Description
Photographer, painter, sculptor, Lucas Samaras is one of the most influential and provocative artists of our time. Once again available to readers, this long out-of-print volume presents a thorough compilation of Samara's photographic work, beginning with his earliest "Auto-Polaroids."
This exhaustive body of work paved the way for a generation of contemporary photo-artists, expanding the expressive possibilities of the medium. Using Polaroid materials, large--sometimes life-sized--formats, manipulated imagery, and composites, Samaras helped forge a vocabulary employed by artists and photographers throughout the eighties. In his most profound achievement, he adopted one of photography's basic genres--portraiture--and used it as a basis for an inquiry into the self, which remains unmatched in its intensity and boundless in its ramifications.
Photography critic Ben Lifson provides a trenchant critique and history of Samaras's work. "Samaras split himself into model, actor, director, audience, and critic," Lifson writes. "To each of these roles he brought a skilled artist's hand an an eye deeply informed by the historical traditions and motifs of art and by the vernacular and popular traditions of photography. He became a rare figure in American art, not an artist who occasionally uses photography for tactical reasons . . . but an artist who made photography central to his aesthetic campaign."
Book Description
Choosing the wrong typeface or type style can destroy the effectiveness of a design, and finding the perfect typeface is not as easy as it sounds. There are hundreds of options and after a day in front of the computer screen, it's hard to be convinced that any one of them is the right choice. Type Style Finder is the answer for many weary designers.
This rich volume is the easy to navigate, sourcebook for choosing type and color. Divided into four sections-aspect, mood, time frame era, and age group-this book aids readers in recognizing the best font and color combinations to complete their design projects with effective results. A virtual catalog of typefaces, Type Style Finder is destined to be on every designers desk.
Customer Reviews:
Worth a graphic designer's time.......2007-05-13
It's very easy to find a font for any given project with this guide. It is organized by theme and emotional content . . . looking for a fun font or a kids font or a fantasy font? There are several recommendations for each section. My only complaint about this book is that I would like to see each section expanded with further suggestions. If you find a theme that works for you then, most likely, you will only find 2-3 pages of suggested fonts. It's a great concept for a book. Hopefully, the author will release additional editions at some later date.
Type Style Finder: The Busy Designer's Guide to Type.......2007-01-10
A fine collection of examples of combinations of types, styles and colors for all graphic designers.
Fun resource to have.......2006-07-13
While books of this type can lose their freshness after awhile (as fonts come and go out of fashion and as new faces are created), this is a novel and fun way to see what fonts convey the attitude/atmosphere you want to create. Mr. Samara's book lists various styles such as business, gothic, humorous, etc. and shows samples comprising several pages of current typefaces for each desired effect. It's set up as a typeface catalog under the various descriptive headings. As a designer I appreciate having a collection like this at my fingertips, and highly recommend this to anyone who works with fonts and typography. It stays on my desktop - it never finds the bookshelf!
essential.......2006-01-13
this book will stay very close to your desk.
great time-saver, great source of inspiration.
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The Nantucket Restaurants Cookbook is exactly that, a collection of menus from a whole host of restaurants on Nantucket Island. And for such a small island, Nantucket has a lot to offer the hungry gourmet. Samara Farber Mormar, a former chef, is a Nantucket resident and loves everything about the island. Her coauthor, Melissa Clark, is a cookbook writer and columnist for The New York Times. Together they interviewed the chefs and owners of 18 Nantucket restaurants and wrote a chapter on each which includes a little history, a little personality, some local color, and a showstopping menu.
Black-Eyed Susan's doesn't advertise, take reservations, or publish a phone number, but there's always a line out the door. With beautiful, summery dishes such as their Tuna Tartare with Cucumbers and Sriracha Aioli and Lemon Tart with Spring Strawberry Sorbet, it's no wonder. You'd expect The Boarding House to serve simple food, but you'd be wrong. Angela and Seth Raynor met as culinary students, and while he was cooking French on Nantucket at the Chanticleer, she was cooking in France. Today, their love for all things French flavors their "new American" cuisine in dishes such as the refreshing Cold Tomato Infusion with Lobster. The Club Car is revered for its food and service far beyond the island's shores. Their Grilled Veal Medallions with Fresh Horseradish Cream and Poached Oysters is more than worth the time it takes to prepare. While you can't enjoy the setting of The Galley on Cliffside Beach--"smack dab on the beach"--without going there, Goat-Cheese-Stuffed Squash Blossoms with Grilled Onion and Organic Tomato Vinaigrette and Rosewater Angel Food Cake with Blackberries and Lemon Verbena Syrup help to explain the entrancing serenity of the island described by every one of these chefs. Only a handful of the chefs are Nantucket natives; most of them migrated to the island, or happened upon it. But once there, they fell in love with it and stayed. The result is a plethora of fine dining establishments, and although many are only open during the summer season, much of their business is repeat.
So if you always imagined Nantucket cuisine as fried clams on the beach, think again. "Sophisticated food and warm hospitality" is the order of the day. Come and meet the generous food community from Nantucket, and follow their lead--maybe all that island serenity comes just as much from painted plates of Banana Bread French Toast with Bananas Foster and Crème Fraîche as it does from the windswept dunes and the sapphire sea. --Leora Y. Bloom
Book Description
The Nantucket Restaurants Cookbook invites you behind the scenes for a unique perspective, profiling eighteen of the island’s finest restaurants and the talented personalities behind them, plus a sampling of creative, signature dishes. Restaurants include: American Seasons, The Chanticleer, Kendrick’s, The Boarding House, 21 Federal, and more.
This mouth-watering collection is complete with full menus and delectable recipes adapted for the home chef. They include Roasted Golden Tomato Soup with Fine Herbs, Local Day Boat Cod with Fingerling Potatoes and Leeks, Fennel and Red Onion Salad, and Carmelized Nectarine Tart.
As you flip through the pages you’ll instinctively think if that eternal vacation-time question: Where should we go for dinner? Now, instead, you can think: What should we cook for dinner? The Nantucket Restaurants Cookbook is the perfect keepsake collection.
Customer Reviews:
A Beautiful picture of the Nantucket Restaurant Scene.......2001-05-16
Though I've never been to Nantucket, this book absolutely makes me want to go, the next time I'm on the East Coast. In the meantime, I can flip through this gorgeous book and dream. The photography is alluring and recipes so inventive and interesting. Some of them seem a little cheffy, but for the most part they look easy enough to make for a summer dinner party. Plus, the profiles of the restaurantuers make me want to try their recipes! It makes a great gift.
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FOR THE LOVE OF LETTERS is a much–needed contemporary guide to letter–writing, with tips on how to write all different types of notes: love letters, thank–you letters, apology letters, sympathy letters, goodbye letters, cover letters, break–up letters...even erotic letters. In highly engaging prose, the author addresses her twenty– and thirty–something peers by taking them––via charming anecdotes and real–life examples––through the entire process: why to write a letter, how to start, what to say, when an e–mail is OK and when it's not, and provides eminently useful pointers such as why it's crucial to be specific. All the letters are REAL –– some by the author, some to the author, and some by luminaries like James Joyce, Susan B. Anthony, Edgar Allen Poe, and Abraham Lincoln. Moving stories demonstrate the power of letter–writing and show how it can enhance our relationships. For anyone who has ever trembled at the idea of sitting down and putting pen to paper –– or finger tips to keyboard –– FOR THE LOVE OF LETTERS will leave you well–equipped for the task.
Table of Contents
Introduction I: Yes, There's Still a Need for Letters
Introduction II: Letter Writing and the Internet
Chapter 1: Letters as Gifts
Love Letters
Erotic Letters
Chapter 2: Letter Therapy
~ Goodbye Letters
~ Flaming Tongue Letters
Chapter 3: Return to Sender: Letters that are Hard to
Write and Harder to Receive
~ Break–up Letters
~ Unauthorized Love Letters
Chapter 4: Letters of Gratitude
~ Thank You Letters
Chapter 5: Hard to Say, Even in a Letter
~ Apology letters
~ Sympathy letters
Chapter 6: Letters of Change
~ Letters Requesting Acts of Amnesty
~ Letters to the Editor
Chapter 7: If We Must, We Must
~ Business Letters
~ Recommendation Letters
Chapter 8: Signing Off: The Perfect Ending
Customer Reviews:
More than what I bargained for!.......2007-09-06
I bought this title as a nice reference to have handy. It turned out to be so delightful, I was disappointed to finish!
This book is insightful, inspiring, and ingenious. It's also funny (I laughed out loud - Samara's a stitch). You'll find For The Love of Letters is more than just an instruction manual for the structure and syntax of letters or notes---it's a field guide to effective communication, rich with stories, history, and time-tested advice.
Lover of letters or no - here's what I'll promise you: you won't be disappointed with this purchase.
Addictive, but sad.......2007-08-10
This book was more like a guily pleasure than a book that would inspire you to write a friendly note. I felt like I was reading someone's journal with letters sent and recieved between the author and one jilted lover after another. It was like watching a soap opera where there was no real warmth or depth of feeling between the charaters.
If it is a book that will inspire you to write a warm, friendly, letter you want, I would recommend The Art of the Handwritten Note by Margaret Shepherd.
Delightful and Inspiring.......2007-07-27
For the Love of Letters is a delightful reminder of how important the written word is to relationships, both personal and professional. Not just a how to on writing letters, but an inspiring look at sharing important feelings like love, regret, and even anger without burning bridges. The author shares easily of her own experiences in a refreshingly honest way. I am inspired to make the effort to write letters and notes and have found that when I do, I am rewarded in turn. If I get stuck on the best way to phrase an idea or feeling, there is plenty of advice to draw from in this book. Definitely worth a look!
An Infectious Love of Letters.......2007-07-21
Don't let this book's appearance fool you. For the Love of Letters may look like yet another anthology of famous letters, but it has much, much more to offer. Yes, you'll find letters from the likes of Keats, Poe, Beethoven, and many others, but these letters serve only to illuminate O'Shea's fresh, funny take on a smart, ambitious single woman's journey through the dating scene, job searches, and beyond.
O'Shea begins by announcing her thesis--"Yes, There's Still a Need for Letters"--and then launches into a pithy discussion of how the Internet age has both reinvigorated and altered the art of letter writing. She worries that "what we gain in speed" through email and text messages, "we lose in language" and sets out to rectify this problem. Although we may enjoy the convenience of electronic correspondence, we must not forget that "English is curvaceous, complex, and beautiful," for, if we do so, we "squander our inheritance."
The early chapters treat the author's forte, the love letter. The intro features a reference to Rostand's Cyrano, a role O'Shea plays with great panache here and on her website, letterlover.net, which provides letters for lovelorn. She covers the importance of timing, word choice, and even grammar in a love letter, providing examples from her own and others' correspondence. O'Shea's own very direct, honest, and emotional letters propel the early chapters of the book. The reader experiences the potentially embarrassing and starkly self-revelatory "crush confession," for which O'Shea advises "self-discipline" but can't resist taking her preferred "no-holds-barred" approach to expressing her feelings. And that's the great strength of this book: O'Shea's willingness to expose herself for the better or worse. We feel the unbridled sensuality of her erotic letters, the tumult of break-up letters, and the great sorrow of a condolence letter written to the grieving mother of deceased young friend. Of special note is O'Shea's embarrassing exchange with a former lover whose intentions are good--he writes to apologize--but whose memory isn't: he gets her name wrong!
In the book's later chapters, O'Shea moves on to less personal kinds of correspondence, such as recommendation and cover letters. While I prefer the early chapters--and I suspect that O'Shea does, too--these sections have much to offer. She provides the best advice I've seen for writing letters of recommendation and offers examples from Collier's Cyclopedia of Commercial and Social Information to support her assertions. And another perspective on the dreaded "cover letter" is always welcome.
Booksellers should display For the Love of Letters alongside Sex and the City and the so-called "chick-lit" novels (I've always found this label condescending; but, in lieu of a better term, I employ it here for communication purposes). I recommend this book very highly to fans of such works. However, although I have little interest in the chick-lit genre, I still thoroughly enjoyed Love of Letters. O'Shea's candor and charming persona distinguish the text, and her belief in the vitality of the personal letter in the Internet age is infectious.
Love of For the the Love of Letters............2007-07-04
I made the mistake of picking up FOR THE LOVE OF LETTERS during lunch on an otherwise busy day, and I haven't stopped reading! Seriously, what a sweet, smart, well conceived book. What in other hands could be dry or forced, in Samara O'Shea's hands is passionate and lovely. I love the blend between the old and the new. I love the way the book is as much about the sender as the recipient. I love--you get the idea. . .
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