Sometimes a book is so meta it sort of breaks your brain! How to talk about a book that is all beginnings and no ends? How to discuss a book that enlists You, the Reader, in its chicanery? We try to get on the wavelength with Calvino's text. You be the judge of if we get there.
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Ep 772 - Butter, by Asako Yuzuki
It's true that we usually try to reserve Spooktober for books that are, how you say, "classically spooky." But isn't societal misogyny and fatphobia just as spooky as any ghost, ghoul, or pieced-together-monster-that-represents-humankind's-hubris? We'd like to think so. And we'd ... Show More
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Adventure Book Theatre: Light on Quests Mountain (An ENDLESS QUEST Book)
<p>The Lore Lords, as well as newcomer Jaik (sp?), are transported to a post-apocalyptic future full of sentient tractors, rideable plants, and one <em>extremely</em> sexy lizard. Can the Book Buds survive in his strange, and at times, poorly formatted New World? Or will they suc ... Show More
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