reading notes

Kissers

by James Kochalka ISBN: 0966536347

Kochalka interweaves the quirky love story of his comic persona Magic Boy with girlfriend Amy, and Spandy (their cat) with a neighborhood bird.

He creates perfect pictures of

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Climbing Out

by Brian Ralph ISBN: 0970085850

This book a sequel of sorts to Cave-In, Ralphs's fascinatingly wordless first graphic novel. Here the monkey-boy hero speaks and so do the characters around him; that

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The Intuitionist

by Colson Whitehead ISBN: 0385493002

The amazing thing about this novel is that is manages to create such interest and depth in such a small and tightly controlled universe: the world of

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Something At the Window is Scratching

by Roman Dirge ISBN: 0943151090

The subtitle to this collection is "Children's tales for disturbed children," though "Disturbed Tales for the Slightly Whimsical and Macabre" would also work. The introduction was written

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