Books & snails & MRC behaving badly

Great to see that The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elizabeth Tova Bailey has won the Stanford 2012 William Saroyan Prize for writing. (I have hazy/fond memories of Stanford, my brother studied there many years ago). If you google Amazon and 'myalgic encephalomyelitis', there's an Aladdin's cave of books, the quality varies greatly, but this is easily one of the best. It's a gem and made me think differently about snails, this one was on the shed for a few days last month.

Nice to have some...