Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:36:24 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Has anyone read any good books lately?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> dalek_cag at yahoo.com 3/25/2005 9:17:24 AM >>>
>I just finished the Terry Bisson short story
>collection "Bear Discover Fire."  It was very good.

I'm going to assume it was the trade pb edition; the true first editon
hardcover being withdrawn by Tor due to a... er, design flaw.

Terry is one of the best short story writers in the field.  Gee, in
1995 he, Lucius Shepard, & Howard Waldrop were GoHs at the 1995 WFC in
Baltimore.

>Also, I'm currently reading "Lamb" by Christopher
>Moore, which is very funny.  However, I could see
>where some Christians might find the gospel of Jesus's
>chilhood and teen years as told by his best friend
>Biff not all that funny, if not blasphemous.

There's always The Life of Brian.

As for my reading... F&SF, The New Yorker, The Economist.  I have the
latest Ian Rankin, nothing like a dour, noir Scottish mystery.

I rememberwhen I was much younger, the Chex cereal boxes having a fake
newspaper on the back.  It's stuck in my mid that Stan Frieberg did
them.  Wouldv'e been in the early 60s?

mjw