I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

So, one of my son’s second-grade assignments was to think of as many things as possible that could be picked up with a spoon but not a fork. He returns home with a list in which three of the about eight entries—“alcohol,” “beer,” and “liquor”—have been carefully erased, as per his teacher’s policy. Now we are amusing ourselves imagining the first parent-teacher conference. “Did you folks drive?”

Jared Gardner, Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling: ( long, positive review )

( Fiction: Koontz, Rusch, Brust, Gardner, Sebold, Donaldson, Wilson )

To-review pile getting smaller -- might even get to the comics soon!