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|title=Busy Monsters

|author=William Giraldi

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=978-0393079623

|pages=282

|publisher=W W Norton and Co

|date=August 2011

|summary=A funny look at a journalist on an adventure to capture his love, who is trying to catch a giant squid in her turn.

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Charles Homar loves his Gillian. He's proved it to us, if not to her, by going after her possessive, jealous state trooper of an ex with the intent to kill - if only ended up rescuing a cat instead. But lo and behold, she's declared she's off to discover the real love of her life - the giant squid. Failing to stop this, Charlie spends too long with a Nessie obsessive, then goes on a hunt of his own - for Bigfoot, all the while, chapter by chapter, sending his narrative of the same to a magazine as essays for one of those autobiographical, frivolous columns.

Gillian, in being intent on reading anything featuring a giant squid, would have had to pick up [[Kraken by China Mieville]]. For a look at a family split up instead by surreal ideas, we liked [[The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson]].

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