At 23:33 2002-07-17 -0400, Starshadw at aol.com wrote: >And another book question: Do you have "comfort" books? Sometimes, >if I'm >having trouble sleeping because I'm nervous or stressed or frightened, >or if >I'm not feeling well, or am going through one of my melancholies, I >have >books that I can go and grab off the bookshelf and sit down and read >and they >make me feel a little better. Mine are all easy reads - in fact, the >L'Engle >books and Nimh are probably some of my comfort books. As when I start to read something, I continue reading it even if it is far to late and I should be sleeping, I tend to keep my comfort books short. I alos like them to be somewhat askew and remind me that sometimes reality ins't the way I percieve it. Paul Di Filippo's "The Jackdaw's Last Case". Short Story in his Lost Pages-book. It's about a superhero. And Kafka. The rest of the stories also feature authors and famous people in alternative universes. William Browning Spencer's ""Résumé With Monsters". A Cthuhlianian love story. Terry Carr's "Fandom Harvest" too I guess. Selected fanzine writings. / Nicklas