Unthinkable Golden Companion Devil; Emil Tintin Undead Boys

[maribou]

The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, by Joshua Braff
I had a lot of trouble putting this book down; the narrative voice was endearing and I kept saying 'just one more page' to myself. It's very similar to the author's brother's movie Garden State in its sense of humor, but rather more cheerful in tone.
(45/300)

Firefly Companion, Volume 1, by a bunch of people
My favorite parts were the parts about how they made the various guns. Ooo, and the clothing stuff. And Jewel Staite gives good interview. Enough fangirling yet?
(46/300)

The Golden Age, by Gore Vidal
There were occasional amusing bits, but mostly this book spent far too much time telling and not enough showing. If I just wanted Vidal's spin on the history of the period, I would read nonfiction by him - even historical fiction has to have character development and all that yummy stuff that makes a novel - narrative voice is not enough to make a novel. I never stopped knowing I was reading. Bleah.
(47/300)

The Water Devil, by Judith Merkle Riley
Much less meticulous about pointing out what it knows, much more interesting. Judith Merkle Riley has been a comfort author of mine since high school. Go go medieval mystics with clever minds.
(48/300)

The Boys, Volume 1, by Garth Ennis
Man, at least in Preacher, it was mostly just the story and its characters that were in-your-face bleak, and not the entire frigging universe and the metaphysics thereunto. Still, I'll read the next one.
(49/300)

Tintin and the World of Hergé, by Benoît Peeters
Oh, the lovely lovely flashbacks to being 7 or 8 or 9 in my elementary school library, devouring Tintin and Les Schtroumphes and Spirou and ..... I was also amused to see that whomsoever translated this stuck as close to the original French for the text as possible (leading to some amusing verb choices that probably sound wacky to anglos) and that the inlaid comic excerpts were almost always left in their French versions.
(50/300)

Emil, by Tomi Ungerer
Apparently this is hard to find so I'm not going to bother linking to it. Anyway, I read the Spanish version. Being able to stumble my way through kids' picture books in Spanish continues to send me into untoward flights of glee. Also, I was extra pleased with myself for being able to tell that it was Spanish Spanish and not North American Spanish by about the 3rd page (even though that isn't very hard).
(51/300)

Undead TV, edited by Elana Levine and Lisa Parks
Sometimes I want fluff *and* clever academic wankery, all to onc't. Delivered admirably. Most of the essays were interesting and only a couple were tiresome.
(52/300)

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[celestialmaven.livejournal.com]

Well, at least we know what you've been doing in your absence! Let me know the good times to try and reach you. I've been meaning to give my favorite librarian a call :)

[maribou]

Hey there lady, sorry I didn't write back right away but I've been all far away at sea level in another state and all that. I'm traveling today, but we will talk soon!