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One does not simply forget to reread this each year.

I took a class with this bloke; and reading this book is almost as good as stepping back into it, today.

...Megan Whalen Turner recommended it.

This is mad good.

It has a Douglas-Adams-esque impishness, but starts to lose the Adams-esque pithiness. I wonder if it's partly due to the prose. But I think it's tone. Valente manages the longwinded, digressive Victorian-style for her fairy tale books because they keep a fairy tale's levity. But Space Oddity only has post-modernism's bite...and it's hard to be bitten for a sentence a full-five-line-paragraph-long.

...it really was. Which is why I skimmed and then skipped to the end. And that's the first did-not-finish of the year.

"And if not, He is still good." (Dn 3:18) came to mind. But I never have any additional words after reading this book.

...a reread on the eve of the new year.

...reading aloud, with distinct accents and voices, to my nephew -- 'tis a lot of fun. Dystopia from the perspective of mice

...this volume is simply worth the time for its title, and 'tombo' binding.

I couldn't find it in the library in English, and my French is unspeakable, so I'm reading it in Spanish.