Word: coops
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...founded by UC representative Tom D. Hadfield ’08, CrimsonReading.org allows undergraduate textbook shoppers to view Coop prices alongside those charged by other retailers, such as Half.com and Amazon.com. Books are quickly being added to the database in anticipation of the start of shopping period on Monday, according to site director Jon T. Staff...
...Staff said the work of preparing the site has not been as efficient as it might have been had College administrators and Coop officials signed on to a UC proposal last spring that would have promoted the sharing of textbook information between Crimson Reading and the Coop, which traditionally collects lists of required books from professors each year...
...Professors are very good about giving their book lists to the Coop and the libraries...and professors are not yet as good as giving their book lists to us,” Staff said...
...Divisadero, his latest book, starts as the story of Anna and Claire, two sisters growing up on a ranch in California with their father and an orphaned boy named Coop. The sisters later develop an almost pathological competitiveness and Claire loses out: Anna gets Coop. Then the father discovers Coop sleeping with Anna, and almost kills him. The characters split up, and so does the novel. One narrative strand follows the boy after he leaves the ranch. Longtime Ondaatje fans know they're in for a treat when Coop turns into a gambler. Ondaatje has a talent for mixing highbrow...
...capturing music and landscape in words, and there are gorgeous descriptions of strumming guitars, running horses and swooping hawks. But the second part of the book is a letdown; the descriptions in France are often too contrived, too literary. We want less about Segura's art, more about Coop and his crooked card games. And then there's the question of whether the book coheres. In addition to the echoes of repeating themes, characters are linked by shared sentiments of hurt, dispossession and a love of solitude. But for once, the hawk master has failed at his game...