Word: shelfful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...arrived like a baby on my office doorstep, weighing several pounds and wrapped in a white, fuzzy swaddle. Underneath the cloth was a photocopied advance of Craig Thompson's mammoth, 592-page "illustrated novel," "Blankets" (Top Shelf Productions; $29.95). Like a needy infant it demanded immediate attention, compelling me to read it right away until finished. It consumed my afternoon, but I felt this book was indeed gifted and destined for a great future...
...this year at least, attendees totally scored. Several publishers had advance copies of books that amounted to a summer comix reading list. The biggest draw at the festival must have been Craig Thompson?s ?Blankets? (Top Shelf; $29.95). A giant, 500+ page graphic novel about growing up in Wisconsin, it has generated a tremendous amount of buzz, causing swarms of people to hover around the artist and his mountain of books. A deep and powerful work, it tells the story of a teenager growing up in an austere, fundamentalist Christian family. His struggles with faith and self-identity...
...sales to special-forces units assigned everywhere from Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains to the Philippine jungles. "Private companies are leading in the R. and D. of this stuff," says Colonel Tom Blume, director of procurement for U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in Tampa, Fla. "We love off-the-shelf items because we don't have to put R. and D. into them...
...including turning part of the building into a dance studio, while keeping ample study space for Quad residents—was floated. University planners consider Hilles a prime spot for potential renovations because its check-out rate is extremely low and its collection only occupies about half the shelf space...
However, McGrath Lewis says she keeps in mind the 25-year reunion books sitting on a shelf over her desk, what she calls the first returns of her work...