reading notes

by John Marsden & Shaun Tan ISBN: 0968876889 Brookline Booksmith has long been one of my favorite bookstores, and their latest bit of book display strategy is the sort of thing that helps explain why: they set up a Kids Books for Adults section. So I now I have another Shaun Tan book. His work, [...]

by Jim Shepard ISBN: 1400033497 Shootings, collectible sci-fi cards, Dutch soccer players, meditations by John Ashcroft, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon all feature in the three hundred-plus pages and twenty-plus stories in this book. There is also love in a zeppelin, baseball in Cuba, and unrequited love with The Who. Which is to [...]

by Shaun Tan ISBN: 0734403887 Technically speaking, I suppose this is a children’s picture book. That is the section of the store where I found it (and Tan’s excellent The Red Tree) but I think that has as much to do with the need to pigeonhole books as anything else. The illustrations contain a fascinating [...]