I finished The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender yesterday. Aimee Bender is one of those people I've read a lot and always enjoy and remember the stories and forget who wrote them. She does this thing where she writes implausible things, things that sound like fairy tales, but doesn't write them like a fairy tale, but as if that's just how things are and I like that and sometimes I try to do the same thing, but it's not quite as successful as when she does it.