The Doll's Alphabet by Camilla Grudova, 162 pages

 Surreal, ambitious, and exquisitely conceived, The Doll's Alphabetis a collection of stories in the tradition of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood. Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies - many images recur in stories that are in turn child-like and naive, grotesque and very dark.

In Unstitching, a feminist revolution takes place. In Waxy, a factory worker fights to keep hold of her Man in a society where it is frowned upon to be Manless. In Agata's Machine, two schoolgirls conjure a Pierrot and an angel in a dank attic room. In Notes from a Spider, a half-man, half-spider finds love in a great European city.
By constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has come up with a method for storytelling that is highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting.

Content:
- Unstitching (2017)
- The Mouse Queen (2017)
- The Gothic Society (2017)
- Waxy (2016)
- The Doll's Alphabet (2017)
- The Mermaid (2017)
- Agata's Machine (2015)
- Rhinoceros (2017)
- The Sad Tale of the Sconce (2017)
- Edward, Do Not Pamper the Dead (2017)
- Hungarian Sprats (2017)
- The Moth Emporium (2017)
- Notes from a Spider

I Work at a Public Library by Gina Sheridan, 162 pages

As a fellow library worker, this book was FUNNY and spot on. Most people think that a library is a quiet placed filled with patrons who love to read, but sometimes that is the farthest thing from the truth. The library is more a baby sitter, video store and computer lab than a place with books for many people. Plus, the poop and sex can get a little old. Plus, the fact that the stories were filled under Dewey label added to the enjoyment. I will be adding this book to my personal collection. This book should be mandatory reading for all library patrons and new employees.