I finished a couple of books in one sitting earlier this week that I didn't get around to writing about. Coraline by Neil Gaiman (which showed up from amazon that day), and Cities of the Fantastic: Brusel by Schuiten and Peeters. Coraline would have caused nightmares when I was 10 for about a week, so I think Gaiman did a good job. I wouldn't mind finding a stone with a hole it in now. (You'll have to read the book, I'm not explaining.) Brusel was a gift from Charles when he was here for the lindy exchange in April. I'm still not much of a graphic novel person, but I really liked the fact that it wasn't about superheros or anything other than ordinary people, who happened to be living in an unordinary (to us) world.

Todays purchases (Powell's and two other stores within a block of there that I don't remember the names of):
Devices & Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America by Andrewa Tone
Remake by Connie Willis (the last of hers to buy, I believe, at least until her next book comes out
Arabs & Israel for Beginners by Ron David
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
posted by Kristin Buxton at 4:50 PM