fancy a threesome?

Historic times here at the Electric Halibrary. Let me explain: you will of course recall that at the end of the review of Heather McGowan's Schooling in 2014 I observed that it was the 42nd book in the series with a one-word title. Well, that number has gone up to 54 in the intervening three years, and, fascinatingly, while the 42 comprised 21.65% of the total of 194 books up to that point, the subsequent 12 comprise 22.64% of the total of 54 books I've read since that one. So I'm keeping up a pretty consistent percentage, without putting any conscious thought into the book selection process, or at least not any conscious thought that takes the number of words in the book's title into account.

The real story here though is that since Exposure follows on the heels of Matter and Stick it's the first time in the entire history of this blog that I've read three monolexic titles consecutively. You can gasp in disbelief all you want, but it's true. Deal with it. There have been eight previous occasions where I've read two consecutively, as follows:

• Utz and Bluesman in Jan/Feb 2008
• Walter and Watchmen in Feb/Mar 2009
• Inversions and Unless in July 2009
• Kleinzeit and Weekend in Aug/Sep 2010
• Invisible and Choke in Apr/May 2012
• O-Zone and Stoner in April 2014
• Fremder and the aforementioned Schooling in Oct/Nov 2014
• Pilgermann and Surfacing in Dec 2016/Jan 2017