The Fox Woman
Wednesday, October 29th, 2003by Kij Johnson ISBN: 0312875592
Johnson based her story on a Japanese fairy tale from the ninth century. In that place and time, foxes were thought to have magical powers, and humans
Archive for October, 2003
The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish
Sunday, October 19th, 2003by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean ISBN: 1565041992
Sawney and Beaney are the two fish that get traded for a newspaper-reading Dad.
The Dad isn't very exciting -- all he does is
Don’t
Wednesday, October 8th, 2003by Jenny Diski ISBN: 1862072507
This is a collection of essays, most of which were written for the London Review of Books, and so masquerade as meandering book reviews. Diski sets up
Coraline
Wednesday, October 1st, 2003by Neil Gaiman illustrations by Dave McKean ISBN: 0380807343
I did not consider black button eyes to be creepy or malevolent. Then I read this book, and marvelled at Gaiman's ability to invest
