Susan Orlean Explodes Books
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Book Exploder - Is That a Book Blower?
I have go to passages that i now can practically recite by heart, because i do them all the time. And you choose those for their oral quality. For book exploder, that isn't antithetical to what we're looking for. The temperature reached 451 degrees and the books began smouldering. Their covers burst like popcorn. Pages flared and blackened then sprang away from their bindings a ream of sooty scraps soaring on the up draught. I mean, you've written, what, nine or ten books? Oh, my god, yes.
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