(This looks like becoming a regular feature.)

  • Penguin Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Boekenmarkt, Spui). “[T]he achieve of, the mastery of the thing!” (It’s unfair to the man, I know, devout Jesuit as he was, but … can’t you just see him in a singles bar? “Yeah, I write poems, about God, and skylarks, and how much I like freckles. My middle name’s Manley.”)
  • Kelly Link’s Magic For Beginners. (Small Beer Press mail-order.)
  • Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 18 (Small Beer again) which is a delight. And getting stories by mail could easily become a habit. (“Addiction”? Oh no, no worries there. I can give it up any time I want to.)