Birthday Butt Blade

scioscribe sent me a delightful birthday box of books!



Amazingly, I have only read one of these before, Patricia Geary's Strange Toys, but when I think I was too young to understand it and I didn't still have it.

I flipped through and discovered that I have forgotten literally everything about it... except a sequence, near the end, in which the heroine, now grown up,

1) is an amateur weightlifter who breaks the world record in a gym

2) immediately whereupon she meets a man who says he wants to coach her and take her to dinner, who when she protests that she doesn't have time to go home and change, gives her $500 and tells her to buy herself something

3) so she goes to a mall and finds a shop decorated with cages of live lemurs and long-haired guinea pigs "dyed like carnations," which sells her a complete, gorgeous outfit, underwear included, which is worth way more than $500 for exactly that amount of money:

Carefully he cuts a piece of cheese from the hors d'oevre table and feeds it to the chartreuse rat in the golden cage. The rat stands on his hind legs and nibbles delicately. "How much do you have?"

Anyone read any of these? Any votes for ones you really want me to review?