Just finished a short story today that spans 9 years. I thought about the guideline that the timespan should be narrow for short stories, but it’s just a guideline. You may break that guideline!

It surely is. Because of the way I process language, it is much harder for me to listen to a book than to read it. But there should be no hierarchy of reading>listening.

I had my grandmother’s copy of this book and cherished it. Then my husband let my toddler rip it up. I must look in to getting a new copy.

Power steering

Yeah, that's right. I misremembered. But it's still gross that he won't get together with his old flame because she's too old for him now. The Haydee character is stomach-turning.

Whaa? I love Vanity Fair. The end of TCOMC is pretty gross (he gets together with his lost love's daughter? Yuck!)

Chthonic. One of my favorite words. Also, autochthonous.

Possibly the coolest British-Mexican cultural mashup since Boy George discovered La Lucha.

Wow. I think I'm in love.

If they are vacuuming up all our data, why can't they even sell us stuff we want? I question how powerful AI has really become if it can't come up with suggestions a fraction as good as a bookstore employee's. The profit motive is enormous and yet this is all they've got.

Is he six feet tall, airborne, and melt airplane windows?

You think taking a civics class would make them act better?

First two were good. Then he repeats himself.

The Earth Abides. Solaris. Roadside Picnic.