An Open Response to Literary Gas:

Adam.  Dearest.

I have read it.  (I own it, too, but thanks very very very much for the offer.)  And it, for sure, will end up on my end-of-year favorites (where I'm not confined by any silly limits).  Promise.

Because it is a super book.  I just figured that other people would nominate it, so it would make the Master List anyway.  And I didn't want to chance Octavian Nothing NOT making the list.  You should read that one ASAP, by the way.

All my love,
Leila

Comments

[MotherReader]

Adam,
I was also on the fence on that book and went with Nailed instead. (Just between us, it is on the Master List. You have a blog and your nominations counted too.)
MR

[Leila]

Awesome, MR. Thanks for letting us know. I'm really looking forward to the Master List!

And, damn, I really need to get around to reading Nailed.

[Adam S.]

I'm going to the bookstore tomorrow to buy Mark Haddon's new novel. I'll pick up a copy of Octavia Nothing while I'm there.

Sorry for missing your review. That happened at a time when I did not have internet access at my house.

Can't wait to see the final version of the Master List.

And what kind of a world would it be if book-lovers didn't help one another out?

[Leila]

A very, very sad one.

I'm really interested to see what other people make of Octavian -- I've run across some that are surprised it's being marketed as a teen book, rather than as an adult book, but that's about it... (Other than gushing about M. T. Anderson's geniusosity, that is.)

PS. And I feel your pain about having no internet access at home -- but at least you've got it again, now, right?

[Adam S.]

Yes, my internet access has been back for about a month now. The filter at work won't let me blog, though.

[Leila]

SAD.

For me, it's not so much a filtering problem (my library is, happily, not one of those that has filters) as it is a worried-about-getting-in-trouble problem.

[Adam]

I just returned from a Borders with A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon and a book by somebody named M.T. Anderson.

[Leila]

Woohoo!

I just lurrrrve him.

And I'm curious to hear how the Haddon is...