reading notes

by Kelly Link
ISBN: 1931520003
Link’s book contains eleven fantastic (as in weird, and as in wonderful) short stories.
Stranger things are happening, mostly in this book. There are: letters from the dead, fake noses, creepy old houses, instructions on going to hell, bloody footprints, spying, special toothaches, the power of shoes, alien blondes, ghosts, and dancing girls. [...]

by James Kochalka
ISBN: damn good question
The Sketchbook Diaries have been published in three volumes so far, with at least number four planned. Kochalka started drawing a daily diary sketch — usually a small, four-panel square, not strip — in October 1998. This first book spans his first year of diary sketches.
The comic is a small [...]

by Lewis Richmond
ISBN: 0767902335
At the same time it piqued my interest, this book also made the needle jump on my flakiness meter. The subtitle is “A Practical Buddhist Approach to Inner Growth and Satisfaction on the Job.”
It isn’t enlightenment for cubeville in 10 easy steps (so it wasn’t as flaky as I feared) and it [...]

by Kate Jennings
ISBN: 0316912581
There isn’t a right side and a wrong side in this book: circumstances are what they are, and what happens in this story is the result of limited options and misunderstood choices.
The story is about Rex and Irene, who marry young, have two children, live on a farm, and have their [...]

by James Kochalka
ISBN: 1891830368
More monkeys, more robots, more violence: this has got just about everything Kochalka fans could want in a sequel. (The original book was Monkey vs. Robot.)
The format is the same square-bound book Kochalka uses to good effect. This time around, the story is printed in purple ink on white paper. The monkeys [...]

by Richard Flanagan
ISBN: 0802139590
This book is “a novel in twelve fish.”
That is how it is organized, anyway, twelve sections each named after a fish. Not just any fish, but fish painted by William Buelow Gould, convict at Sarah’s Island, dreaded penal colony in early 1800s Tasmania.
Well, this book is really William Buelow Gould’s story. How [...]