SFist Reads

For all of our good intentions, we occasionally return our library books after the due date. Sure, you can renew online, but sometimes it just slips our mind. We'd like to take this opportunity to apologize to anyone on the online reserve list for Oh Pure and Radiant Heart. We promise that we'll be getting it back this weekend. Then again, if you're all that eager to read it, may we suggest you pick it up at one of our fine local independent bookstores?

SFists Rita and Eve are so happy to hear that, in her efforts to better understand why good pets go bad and the mysteries of "The Dog Whisperer" SFist Emily is reading Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin. Grandin's austism, coupled with her work in the design of humane slaughter systems, leads to interesting insights. In Grandin's view animals and autistic people are similar in their inability not to notice minute details of their surroundings.