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		<title>Just some of the reading pleasures discovered in June of the year 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve once again broken the list of books I read into two posts &#8211; scientifically separated into &#8216;those I&#8217;ve typed up&#8217; and &#8216;those I haven&#8217;t finished typing yet.&#8217; Only 13 books read in June, and that&#8217;s including two audio books and two I did not finish. In my defense, I was on vacation for almost half that time, so I actually had a social life (but also time to read on airplanes. hmm) Avram Davidson Treasury. I only read a few of the stories in this collection of horror stories (unsurprisingly recommended by Mr. Gaiman). Not bad, but not really&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>What I Read in May &#8211; Part Deux. In which I detail my ongoing obsession with all things Gaiman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five of the books I read in May were by Neil Gaiman. Three of them were comic book collections, so those are a quicker read, usually. But still – that&#8217;s a lot of Gaiman. And that doesn’t include the months (and months) of blog posts I read.  Plus, he’s the reason I read Alabaster. So, yeah. He shows up a lot in June as well. And July. He’s a talented, prolific guy, what can I say? *** Absolute Death &#38; Endless Nights and Marvel 1602, all by Neil Gaiman and various artists (Dave McKean, Mark Buckingham, P. Craig Russell &#38;&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>What I Read in May &#8211; Part Uno</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I know. It’s July – practically August – and I’m just getting to What I Read in May. But it is still July, and I intend to get June done before August as well. And maybe if I just do a little blurb on each of these books, I can stop feeling so behind (or not). I’ve broken May into two parts – Neil Gaiman and Not Neil Gaiman. I’ll give you the Not while I’m finishing up the other.  Even a short blurb on 16 books was getting a bit long, and some turned out to be not-so-short.&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Albinos, spiders, eBooks and love &#8211; Alabaster &amp; Silk, both by Caitlin R. Kiernan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alabaster by Caitlin R. Kiernan is a book of short stories about Dancy Flammarion (what a terrific name!), an albino girl who’s been tapped by some mystical/alien/supernatural forces to fight for the good guys – but this is no fairy tale or super-hero yarn. She’s a young girl who has lost her family, and wanders the world with a big knife in her duffel bag, waiting for the ‘angel’ to tell her where to go next, which monster she has to kill. Meanwhile, she doesn’t know where her next meal is coming from and may have to walk that 100&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Alone in a Crowd &#8211; The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Lonely Polygamist is a strange sort of book. And I mean that in a good way. A man with four wives, part of a Mormon-offshoot sect, who is ineffectual and bumbling. And falling in love with a woman who is not (one of) his wives. Oh yeah, and lonely. Udall treats this “alternative lifestyle” with delicacy and respect (ha! am loving the opportunity to lump this old-style Mormon cult in w/the LGBT community!).  In the end, we are all just humans, shaped and damaged by our upbringing and trying to find peace and happiness in our lives. I liked&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bevyofbooks.com/?p=493</link>
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