Well, not really, but it amused me to squoosh together the titles of the two books I’ve finished recently (assuming that by recently you accept “in the past month or so”)

Woe is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English by Patricia T. O’Conner

I picked this book up several years ago, but had not gotten very far in it, for as much as I wanted to improve my writing, I was not necessarily interested in reading about improving my writing, but since I am taking a course on editing, I decided that this would be a good book to read.

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The Sandman Book of Dreams Neil Gaiman and Ed Kramer, editors

It took me several months to read this book, not because it was boring, but because I was carrying it back and forth to work to read at lunch, or if I had to go somewhere for an appointment. This means that as I finished the last story in the book, I could barely remember the first story in the book.

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And while I’m thinking about it, when we were in DC, we made (of course) a bookstore stop, and I found a collection of Gypsy folktales. I haven’t had a chance to really look into it yet, but it sounded great.