reading notes

by Alexis Deacon
ISBN: 192913228X
This slim book manages to be beautiful, clever, and humorous. How many things — let alone things available for purchase at just under eight bucks — can you say that about?
Slow Loris is an animal at the zoo, an animal misunderstood as boring by both the zoo-going public and the other animals. [...]

by Witold Rybczynski
ISBN: 0140102310
Rybczynski looks at the origins and development what we mean by home, which means he examines attitudes about and the meanings of comfort, privacy, domesticity, and technology. Oh, he also explores decor, indoor plumbing, ventilation, lighting, housework and domestic efficiency, the impact and role of women in the home. He also provides [...]

by James Kochalka
ISBN: 1891867466
I reviewed some of the material in this book before, when I read the first three issues of the Peanutbutter & Jeremy comic books, so I’ll keep this short. (In fact, reading notes is a blurb on the back cover of the book.)
Kochalka serves up a great big helping of all-ages [...]

by Richard Russo
ISBN: 0375726012
Russo’s stories generally revolve around variously damaged men: they are recovering from surgery, from divorce, from grief, or in stories like “Buoyancy”, the passage of time. He writes about real things and the ways in which they work out or don’t work out or don’t happen at all. Many of these characters [...]