beach books!

The Fourth of July weekend means summer’s really here. And summer means beach books. Beach books get a bad rap. They’re often dismissed as light and fluffy — entertaining enough to keep your attention between naps, but not the stuff of great literature. I beg to differ.

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“Handmade Nation”

I am awestruck by the boundless creativity showcased in the pages of “Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft and Design,” and can’t wait to see the documentary. Faythe Levine traveled 19,000 miles and interviewed 24 artists to explore the growing craft movement in our country and the results are, in themselves, pieces of…

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“Eat Pray Love”

The highly-anticipated big-screen adaptation of Eat Pray Love opened this past weekend with respectable — but not knock-out — box office numbers, coming in second behind the testosterone-loaded The Expendables. Why didn’t the film version of a book that ruled the New York Times Best Seller list for more than three years have a bigger impact? Maybe because not every…

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