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Busy: My show is up, and will be open to the public tomorrow morning.

Book: Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell. Definitely one of the best books I've read in the last few years.

Photos of Barack Obama, taken in Richmond, 17 February. The rest are here.

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[nessachan]

Hey, cool! I haven't decided which canidate I'm throwing my support behind yet, but that doesn't change the fact that Barack is just plain awesome.

[outmused]

He's a pretty amazing speaker. I'm supporting him, because I feel that - barring any major screw ups or skeletons in closets in the next couple of years - he's by far the most electable of the Dems. Which is something that Democrats rarely nominate.

[papersnowflakes]

J is a huge Barack fan.

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Barack rocks.

And is a rock star.

[goldrush_girl]

Cool photos.

Re: winter's Bone. I was speaking at a writers' event last summer, and one of my fellow contributors was an excellent British crime writer called John Harvey (a thoroughly nice chap). Anyway, we each had to read aloud a piece from a book we love, and he read from Winter's Bone. I remember how brilliant the prose was in just the short excerpt he read. I must seek it out and read it.

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I bet you would like it. The prose is beautiful.

And in some ways it has things in common with The Murder Ballad, in that they both present a world that's totally foreign, ugly, and beautiful - all at the same time.

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And: Do you happen to know anything about any of his other books? I've been meaning to look at the library...