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Charles DeLint. I like some of his short stuff, but the mania about him is downright creepy.

While you're at it, why not a clitoridectomy? Punish her for her completed crimes through prison, punish her for potentially planning to conceive future victims by sterilizing her, and punish her for having sex at all by turning it into torture. Sounds like a winner. I don't understand this...

In Frey's case, the editors should have expected something b/c from what I've read, they had the idea of marketing his novel as memoir in the first place. I am repulsed at how the publishing world seems to be spinning this as a matter of the unwashed not 'getting it' that memoir isn't 100% factual.

Why not just amputate her hands? It's a disgusting idea.

Here's one possible reason - they pay an expert to tell them how to rescue themselves from looming bankruptcy, then ignore him. http://www.businessweek.com/autos/autobeat/archives/2006/01/gm_execs_no_pay.html...

True, though it's probably a neccessary hypocrisy. Few states would last long if they didn't reserve the right to exercise powers they withhold from their citizens. Hey, I was using 'personal freedoms' pejoratively! To indicate the big bad US of wealth disparity, poverty and despair, you...

I believe suicide voids most life insurance contracts.

Cool idea, but I'm going to southern California :) Sorry, couldn't resist..

"Rainbow Party (Simon & Schuster, $8.99) is about a group of teens who plan an oral-sex party at which each of the girls wears a different color of lipstick. ...Ruditis says the book was never meant to sensationalize sex parties. "We just wanted to present an issue kids are dealing with," he...

It's out of print, but Carol Ryrie Brink (who wrote Caddie Woodlawn) wrote a book about an American family in Europe (mostly France) called "Family Sabbatical." It's a nice book, warm and friendly.

Oddly enough, two of my favorite memories of book finds concern Walter Farley's Black Stallion series. When I was a horse-crazy little girl, I found the entire series in paperback in the thrift shop for about 25 cents apiece. I read them to pieces, literally. A few years ago, I came across a...

There's actually a nonfiction book about this town, "Sixpence House" by Paul Collins, a memoir that includes the history of the bookstore thing.

I'm thinking about all the healthy and well people who are convinced that we need euthanasia because they couldn't bear to be disabled or terminally ill. In the US, it is illegal to kill yourself, possibly because it's not a victimless crime - the suicide hurts people besides him/herself...

Smartass:)

I'm trying to decide what to take on the plane next week. I like old friends, familiar books that make the plane, train, hotel room, etc. feel more homey - I've tried to take a new novel on trips, but I almost never read them. Of course, I don't read much at all on vacation, but reading a few...

I typically want good characterization, but an interesting plot will suck me in as long as the character work isn't awful.

Anyone read this book: "Golden and Grey" by Louise Arnold? I read it the other day and was pleasantly surprised. Very warm, an obvious relation to the Potter books but in a less extreme world. The plot sort of faltered a bit, but I thought it was a very good first book.

Normally, I would be thrilled to participate in a mass spanking of modern parents (especially after the recent Christmas shopping campaign) but... "Dan Mindus, a spokesman for campaign group the Center for Consumer Freedom, said: "Kids want these foods not because of ads, but because they're...

I usually rely on luck, but one of the best places for finding even weird titles and authors is bookfinder.com It's not a sales place itself, but it pulls titles from various sale sites (ebay, alibris, etc.)

It's already legal to increase pain medication to treat pain, resulting eventually in such high dosages that the patient loses consciousness more or less permanently - so why the need for doctors to prescribe suicide doses? I don't think it's about pain, I think it's about a fantasy of personal...