maribou | Due Comics; New Yorker Frog

Due Considerations, by John Updike
It still amazes me that I can always pick up a book of Updike's nonfiction and LOVE it, and yet with his novels the odds are heavily slanted that I will be very irritated the entire way through ... so, um, hurray for new gargantuan non-fiction collection!
(241/250)

Best American Comics 2006, edited by Anne Elizabeth Moore and Harvey Pekar
Were these really the best comics made in North America that year? *Really*?? There were definitely some excellent pieces in here though, so I'm glad I picked it up. Interested to see how the series evolves.
(242/250)

Frog, by Linda Nobles and Hazel Spencer
Cute kid's book about a frog who is determined to stand up for himself. Charming enough.
(243/250)

Christmas at the New Yorker, compiled by the editors of the New Yorker
Man, a lot of the New Yorker's Christmas stories are depressing. It's a wistful depressing, though, which somehow makes it better. Excellent choice for today, when the snow is on the trees.
(244/250)