same thing happens all the tiem

"sell out" is a term used when the band you love that no one knows about suddenly hits it big. I hate that. If they don't change the music or the art, they aren't selling out :)

don't know much about cover art. The art is nice but the book is good.

I know that chabon did write a colleciton of short stories about pittsburgh, but it's not as well known as his others (one of which was turned into (in my opinion) excellent movie and the other which won some prize and acclaim)

I just read The Doomsday Book, Connie Wilis. Itis all about historians who do their fieldwork within the time periods themselves, though there is otherwise a ceretainly futility in time travel - mysterious laws otherwise unspecified make it impossible for time travelers to tamper with fates long ago decided.

So in this tale, the young time travelling sudent gets more thanshe bargained for when she is sent by mistakeinot the Black Death - she had been scheduled for a decade that would have missed it. As babysitter to the children, she gets rather more attached to the members of her local community than was good for her, as everyone around her dies.

I enjoyed it, it reminded me of Camus's book on the plague only insofar that the main character there too tried to save lives but in the absesnce of anibiotics, did so in vain.