The Other Reason I'm Tickled a Dog Ate My Book As It Was Being Read

It just seems like something that would happen in a Calvino book. You are reading a book you like and, as you read it, your dog eats it so that you can't ever go back and see what it said, you only have the memory of it.

A City of Ghosts owes a great debt to Calvino's Invisible Cities. Invisible Cities is a collection of stories about many different fantastical places that might all be the same place, stories told by Marco Polo to Genghis Khan. A City of Ghosts is a collection of stories...