01 March 2012

Reading Roundup Wrapup: February 2012

Pick of the month: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Jimmy Corrigan: An Improvisatory Romance, Pictographically Configured by Chris Ware.  This could have been Watchmen easily, except that I try to not pick rereads if at all possible.  But Jimmy Corrigan is every bit as good a choice-- both books demonstrate an astounding understanding of the comics medium, pulling off techniques that it would be utterly impossible to do elsewhere, to great emotional effect.

All books read:
1. Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food by Jeff Potter
2. Lucifer: The Wolf Beneath the Tree by Mike Carey
3. Star Wars: Legacy, Volume Ten: Extremes by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema
4. Star Wars: Legacy, Volume Eleven: War by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema
5. Watchmen by Alan Moore
6. Professor Bernice Summerfield III: Life During Wartime edited by Paul Cornell
7. Haworth's by Frances Hodgson Burnett
8. American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar and More American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar by Harvey Pekar with Joyce Brabner
9. Lucifer: Crux by Mike Carey
10. The Smartest Kid on Earth, Jimmy Corrigan: An Improvisatory Romance, Pictographically Configured by Chris Ware
11. A Fair Barbarian by Frances Hodgson Burnett
12. The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures by Phoebe Gloeckner

All books acquired:
1. Taft 2012 by Jason Heller
2. Professor Bernice Summerfield VI: Parallel Lives by Rebecca Levene, Stewart Sheargold, and Dave Stone
3. Professor Bernice Summerfield VII: Something Changed edited by Simon Guerrier
4. Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope

Books remaining on "To be read" list: 375

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