It's that time of year where the weather gets cold and people retreat indoors. In my view, it is the perfect time to read detective novels and sci-fi novels, both silly and noir. Today I picked up "Sucker Bet" from the library. Whoo-hoo! It starts out in a casino with a "mark" that is being lured to a blackjack table by a red-headed prostitute named "Candy Hart." Ha!
Also, I picked up Percival Everett's "Zulus." This is the line in the cover text that got me,
"Zulus is set amidst the eerie landscape and society that has emerged years after the occurrence of a thermonuclear war, where Alice Achitophel, a 300-pound governement clerk and misfit, has a well-kept secret: she is, perhaps, the last woman alive who is not sterile." Hee!
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