The book that all the WPF students were to read for June's Residency was Neil Gaiman's 1-grimace short novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Since Gaiman is one of those authors I try to keep up with, I decided to get it, read it, and possibly use it to illustrate elements of my lectures.
     I'm glad I made that choice, because it ( Read more... )

          I've been hearing about Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys ever since it came out, picked it up recently, and started reading it a couple of months ago. I was surprised to discover that it had been out since 2005, because I was thinking it was more recent than that. But since I don't usually get to a book until about a century and a half after it ( Read more... )