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My five favorite creepy books, just in time for Halloween: We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson The author of “The Lottery” brings her full powers to this book, in which an apparently innocuous beginning — two sisters living together — gradually gets terrifying. Also worth scaring yourself silly with is her … Continue reading »

Not much to say today, so I will just offer you this enjoyable little image from Mary Roach’s book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex: “For ten-plus centuries, the womb was considered less an organ than an independent creature, able to move about the woman’s body like a badger in its den.” Whee! … Continue reading »

I do recommend reading Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. I do not recommend trying to eat while you read it.

Last night I dreamed I was reading Emma, but things were weird. The Westons had a different name, Frank Churchill arrived way too early…finally I glanced at the cover and realized I was reading one of Penguin’s Contemporary Classics series, which slightly rewrites classic novels to make them more palatable to modern audiences. I woke … Continue reading »

Amazon is selling the complete Penguin Classics library (1,082 titles) for a little over eight thousand dollars. Want! Want! Want! Want! Want! It might be worth moving to Alameda to have space for 700 pounds of story.

I have now finished reading Jennifer Love Hewitt’s book, The Day I Shot Cupid: Hello, My Name is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I’m a Love-aholic. I do this for you, people. All for you. I really enjoyed this book. It made me giggle several times. Honestly, I have no idea whether I’m laughing with her … Continue reading »

After reading this, it is hardly surprising that I would rush out to request Jennifer Love Hewitt’s book from the library. There is absurdity out there and I must consume it. What IS surprising is that there are two people in line for this book ahead of me.

Been reading Thor, With Angels, a play by Christopher Fry about Vikings and so on. In the margins, some long-ago student has stubbornly written “Odin” every time Fry writes “Woden.” It’s endearing, this enduring obedience to the known name, but still better is when Fry writes “Death is what conquers the killer, not the killed,” … Continue reading »

Well, that’s the end of that dream. Also, the clouds are back.