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MBR: Small Press Bookwatch, November 2004
Your Face Tells All
Erik Kanto and Ilona Kanto
Atophill Publishing
PO Box 630435, Simi Valley, CA 93065-0435
1929956134 $16.95 1-800-335-2686 www.atophill.com
Your Face Tells All is a straightforward guide to physiognomy, the ancient
Chinese art of face reading. Diagrams and black-and-white photographs, as well
as face readings of well-known celebrities walk the reader through what the
physiognomy of the eyes, lips, cheeks, etc. can reveal of an individual's
personality. Whether one believes the tenets of physiognomy or not (a
particularly interesting vignette is that individuals with "fair hair" tend to
be weak-willed yes-men with no opinion of their own), it is certainly
fascinating to read them rendered into terms that are immediately accessible to
the lay reader.