Last Night's trip to the Library

[matrixrefugee]

Actually, a better title is "Yesterday's trips to the libraries". I had business at the Lowell Public Library, where I picked up the long-awaited copy of Richard Condon's "The Manchurian Candidate".

And from the Tewksbury Library, I got out:

-- Helen Fox's "Eager", a kid's novel about a futuristic family and the new serving-man robot they've just bought... reads like a kid's answer to Isaac Asimov!

-- Neil Gaiman's "American Gods", in which a man who's just been released from a short prison sentence finds out his wife has died... and this mysterious one-eyed man who calls himself Wednesday is offering him a job as his bodyguard, on a strange trip across the American landscape. I've read some of Gaiman's short stories, and I've developed a crush on him after seeing him at Noreascon (hey, it could work if I break into publishing and start moving around in sci-fi circles; he writes fantasy set in recognizable landscapes, while I write sci-fi set in equally recognizable landscapes), plus I've wanted to read this book for a while, so you can imagine my delight to get my hands on this gem!