You have great taste, Alison. I Capture The Castle is one of my favorites, and now I feel bad because I've never read A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. TOO MANY BOOKS!

hey thanks! And TELL ME ABOUT IT. I went on a Kate Atkinson kick when I was on vacation—as soon as I got back I picked up two more of her books, which are still in the damn Powell's bag; I am 56% (Kindle says!) through Patrick Rothfuss' The Wise Man's Fear, which is about a million times better than the first one; work reading this week is Jon Raymond's new book; I will inevitably come home from Stumptown with a million minicomics. Too many.