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    One would think this book is about sex, And while it is, since the characters have so much about it, some of it is kinky, and threesomes play a big role in the narrative. mostly POLITICS is about everything else: the mechanics, the logistics, the emotional minefields, the awkward questions, the moral dilemmas, and, well, the politics of what it is to be with someone you love or someone you don't, and how an act that should be simple is anything but. Thirlwell was disgustingly young when he wrote this but he absolutely understands that to make this book work, there must be an underlying sweetness and sincerity to the entire story. Now I want to see what he's up to more recently. Amazon | Indiebound | B & N | Borders | Powell’s

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    Juli Zeh: In Free Fall
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    Simon Lelic: A Thousand Cuts
    It appears to be a crime with an easy solution: a disgruntled schoolteacher shoots up his place of employment and kills several students in the process. But really, Lelic's novel is about the catastrophic consequences of bullying, and how this act is hardly limited to kids turning on other kids, but burrows deeply into adult relationships as well. He evokes empathy for the killer and sympathy for Lucia, the investigating officer who has to fight for every scrap of dignity as she pieces together the far more complex truth of what really happened at the school. Powell’s | Amazon | Borders | Indiebound | B & N

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    William Lindsay Gresham: Nightmare Alley
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June 26, 2006

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Jim Winter

The funny thing is I've always thought of you as a New Yorker, even when you lived in Toronto and Ottawa.

Then again, what was that line from MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON? "In New York, everyone here is from somewhere else."

patti abbott

The fact that you're still willing to plight your troth with us for the time being, given all our recent foibles and misdeeds, is heartening. Welcome and congrats.

Ray

Speaking as someone who understands only too well the vagaries of a country's visa thing, congratulations, Sarah...

Karen

Congratulations, Sarah!!

Laura

Congratulations, Sarah. And now you won't have to enter that sham marriage with one of your Cabana Boys.

Keith

Congats, Sarah. My grandparents headed south to the US some 80 years ago. And we're still here. Keith

Keith

Congratulations!

The sham marriage is still an option, though.

Dave Worsley

Congratulations, Sarah. It seems working as hard as three normal humans yields a payoff now and then.

David Terrenoire

The extraordinary ability we knew. The alien part, well, deep down, aren't we all in one way or another?

Louise Ure

Congratultions, Sarah! I had no idea that such a thing as an "Alien of Extraordinary Ability" even existed! But that dancing lizard/alien makes it all worthwhile.

See you in Phoenix!

Tribe

So does this mean that now you'll be bringing your seventeen brothers and sisters into the country now?

Stephen Blackmoore

So does this mean you have to go around singing "Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal" whenever a government official walks by?

Congratulations.

Clair Lamb

Congratulations, and do you mind if I steal "Alien of Extraordinary Ability" for a Term of Art?

Naomi

Do I hear Neil Diamond music?

Jenny Davidson

Congratulations, Alien! I will buy you a drink next time I see you--apropos of which (too lazy to e-mail!), are you going to go to that litblogger gathering on July 8?

JT Ellison

Congratulations, Sarah! Great news.
Now if I could just dig up that old copy of Spaceballs and toast you properly...
See you in Phoenix.

Duane Swierczynski

I tell you, it's no fun being an illegal alien. When you do square off against Predator?

Cornelia Read

YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And Predator doesn't stand a chance!!!!!

Bryon Quertermous

Damn it. That sham marriage was the only chance I had. Blasted extraordinary alien...grumble grumble..

Elaine Flinn

Congrats,Sarah!

I think you should market that tee shirt - sign me up for a few, okay?

Dave White

Still wish you had to get married sitcom style.

M.J

No question you are irreplacable. A toast in Phoenix!

(And I want the T-shirt too!)

Margery Flax

Congrats, Sarah. I think we all want that t-shirt!

Mark

Nice one, Sarah, and congrats on being an A.O.E.A. I suppose an alien of "ordinary" ability just wouldn't have cut it. Mind you, like someone else said, I'd always thought of you as a New Yorker...

Mark

Ingrid J. Parker

Well, that was a surprise! Though come to think of it, you've been making a lot of nice comments about Canada. And this "alien of extraordinary ability" is a wonderful thing, almost like being given an award of distinction for service to the nation.
Maybe with a diamond-studded star and a pale blue moire sash.
Glad to see that our country recognizes quality.

Ayo Onatade

Well done Sarah. You certainly deserve it and at least it will be one less thing to think about!!! :-)

Brett Battles

Congratulations, Sarah. Great news. Definitely worthy of multiple group toasts in Phoenix! See you there.

Jon Jordan

Very cool Sarah.

so, when do you start paying taxes?

Andi

I'm So jealous. An Alien of Extraordinary Ability. Gods, that just brings SO many images to mind - hey, I'm a science fiction fan too. What a WONDERFUL descriptive phrase.

So, Sarah, you ARE getting cards made up with that on it, right? Just "Sarah Weinman" then "Alien of Extraordinary Ability" and this url? Maybe email but really....
We have a source though i'm sure any copying place could do it; Louise made cards for Cornelia "Debutante Sensibilities, My Ass" Read and Andi "Word-Seeking Missile" Shechter.

Annie

Wonderful news, Sarah, A.O.E.A.!

Be seeing you in Phoenix .. and we'll toast your new status!

Annie
add me to the t-shirt list :)

JDRhoades

Wow. I'd heard about yer tired, yer poor, yer huddled masses yearnin' to breathe free and all.
But this Alien of Extraordinary Ability thing is a new one on me.
BUt now that I know about it, the question is: how come it took them seven months to realize you were one?
Oh...U.S. Government. Sorry, I forgot.
Congratulations!

Bill Crider

Wow, what a great title! Congratulations.

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