Archive for October, 2004

Owly

Sunday, October 17th, 2004

by Andy Runton
ISBN: 1891830627
If Owly were cuter, this book would be unbearable. You’d get a toothache looking at it, if it were any sweeter. We are talking serious puppies!-level adorableness.
And I loved it.
Owly is the sort of friend you wish for when you are feeling lonely in the world.
Owly is, you may have guessed, an [...]

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Black Glass

Sunday, October 10th, 2004

by Karen Joy Fowler
ISBN: 0345426533
When I read Fowler’s two novels, Sarah Canary and The Sweetheart Season, I did not know she was well-known as a science fiction story writer. Black Glass is a collection of the kind of stories that built her genre reputation.
In the title story, Fowler manages to skewer the DEA and use [...]

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