Connections: "Giraffe" and "Natural History of Unicorns"

"Giraffe" by J M Ledgard is a fictionalised account of a real life incident involving giraffes in a Czechoslovakian zoo in the 1970s.

“The Natural History of Unicorns” is a non-fiction book looking at the origins and persistence of the unicorn myth.

What connects these two books?

Before I read “Giraffe” I had never heard of the Okapi, the closest relative of the giraffe, but without the long legs or neck. And then, I encountered it again in “The Natural History of Unicorns” as one of the possible candidates for being the source of the unicorn.

Connections: "The End of Mr Y" and "Elephants on Acid"

"The End of Mr Y" by Scarlett Thomas is what is decribed as meta-fiction. It is the story of a woman who finds an rare book, and learns the secret of how to travel through the minds of others.

"Elephants on Acid" by Alex Boese is a non-fiction work. It is a collection of descriptions of weird experiments.

What connects these two books?

Both mention Dr Duncan MacDougall and his experiments to discover of the weight of the soul.