reading notes

Black Glass

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

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Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

by Armand Marie Leroi ISBN: 0670031100

Leroi is fascinated with the development of bodies. The sort of body-sculpting that happens in the gym or with the plastic surgeon's knife isn't his thing,

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The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip

by George Saunders illustrated by Lane Smith ISBN: 0375503838

In case I wasn't entirely clear on this point earlier, I love George Saunders. He may be a genius.

Frip is a small (three-house) goat-keeping

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Walton Ford: Tigers of Wrath, Horses of Instruction

by Walton Ford ISBN: 0810932865

Walton Ford's images almost look like they could be be plates from a nineteenth century naturalist's publication -- almost, that is, except for the starling doling out

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