reading notes

by Oliver Jeffers
ISBN: 0399250972
I was poking around the bookstore when I saw this, and I had to bring it home because it made me happy.
The cover features a bear wearing a jaunty red cap resting his arms on an axe handle. He’s surrounded by blue winter sky, you can see bare winter trees [...]

by Douglas Coupland
ISBN: 1596912332
Douglas Coupland can be an assclown. I say this because some of JPod is unreadable on purpose (forty pages worth of digits of pi) and because he pretty much says it about himself: Douglas Coupland, a character who shows up in this book, is pretty much an ass.
Which isn’t to say I [...]

by Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes
ISBN: 1568987846
This book is the result of a project that began on the web: each woman took a photograph in the morning, and they posted the resulting diptych on their blog. (Sadly, the whole year is no longer available online. I have a massive crush on Princeton Architectural [...]

by Kelley Eskridge
ISBN: 1933500131
A few days after I finished reading Dangerous Space, I cranked up some tunes to get through a tedious bit of work on the computer. Not far into the first song (I’ll confess it was something from Fall Out Boy’s latest album, but the specific doesn’t really matter) I stopped, stunned, [...]

by Carlos María Domínguez
with illustrations by Peter Sís
translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor
ISBN: 0151011478
One day in the spring of 1998, Bluma Lennon bought a secondhand copy of Emily Dickinson’s poems in a bookshop in Soho, and as she reached the second poem on the first street corner, she was knocked down by a car.
Books [...]