Friday, May 11, 2012

November & December 2011

100. Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris. Including Books, Street Fashion, And Jewelry. Saturday, 14 February 2009, New York by Leanne Shapton
This is amazing! The story of a whole relationship from meeting to break-up told in objects. Excellent experimental fiction.

101. Black Bird. Vol 8

102. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

103. Comfort Me With Apples: More Adventures at the Table by Ruth Reichl
Great writing, memoir with food. Excellent.

104. The Orphan Tales: In the Night Garden by Cathrynne Valente
Valente is amazing. This is a novel in the Arabian Night's style. Each piece is exquisite unto itself, I didn't even care when I sometimes lost the overall plot arch.

105. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Very well written, a delightfully sinister novel set in a hyper exclusive college...

106. Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl

107. Brusel: Cities of the Fantastic by Schuiten & Peeters
Picked up for the fantastic art, plot was a bit odd...art was really amazing.

108. Habibi by Craig Thompson
Graphic Novel Genius in action, beautiful, tragic, ultimately inspiring.

109. Yotsuba&! Vol 10.

110. The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey (re)
Held up really well in re-reading. Beasty & the Beast with way more magic set... and fun historical details.

October 2011 Readings

86. Discover of Witches by Deborah Harkness
I was into the academic side but I'm more than over the supernatural romances. Cliff-hanger ending, & probably won't bother with the sequel.

87. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Loving Sarah Addison Allen, read-like-Alice Hoffman.

88. Secret Lives of Dress by Erin McKean
Fun, chicklit, but not silly enough to make me feel bad for having put time into it. Imagine a vintage dress shop with a file of short stories, one for each dress. Wouldn't that be worth trying to preserve? :)

89. Yotsuba&! Vol. 7 by Kiyohiko Azuma
Seriously love this manga.

90. The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
Fictional autobiography of the commoner who became the queen of japan after meeting the crown prince at a tennis match.

91. Yotsuba&! Vol. 8

92. Yotsuba&! Vol. 9

93. Amphigorey: Fifteen books by Edward Gorey
I should make a point to read Gorey at least every October.

94. Always a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough

95. The City & the City by Chine Mieville
Excellent! A mystery between two city that aren't quite in the same reality! Amazing, particularly for city/culture junkies.

96. Bread Alone by Judith Ryan Hendricks

97. Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

98. Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story by Fredrik Peeters
One of the best memoirs or graphic novels I've read. Recommend to Craig Thompson fans. What if the love of your life was HIV positive?

99. The Clockwork Girl by O'Reilly & Hanva