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Cyrano Jones ([personal profile] cyrano) wrote2007-07-01 08:15 am

Read a book

I have a habit of keeping the "Year's best fantasy and horror" anthologies in the loo, short stories being a good complement for random short spells of enforced incativity. And I've started taking notes as to where I can find smaller, pocket sized paperback printings of some of these so that I can buy them and then promptly loan them out. Like Gary Kilworth's "Memories of the Flying Ball Bike Shop" which went exactly where I had hoped it would go, and AS Byatt's "Story of the Eldest Princess" which starts out as a very traditional fairy tale but then goes on a bend because the heroine reads too much.

I suspect this was something resembling the intentions of the editors. (:

[identity profile] starktwilight.livejournal.com 2007-07-01 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. We just have magazines...

Though, if your bathroom guests are a bit on the impervious side, might I suggest Augusten Burroughs' anthologies of short story/memoir things? Some of them are funny. ^.^

[identity profile] cyranocyrano.livejournal.com 2007-07-01 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think I have ever heard of Augusten Burroughs. I shall have to investigate.