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)

I Love You, Author of This Book

Well, not really, but:
I Love You, Beth Cooper, by Larry Doyle
This book rocked like a rocking awesome thing. Seriously, I started reading it slightly after I posted my last post and then finished it about 2 hours ago (had to watch an episode of Sharpe before coming down here to blog about it, see).

Story of what happens after a high school valedictorian uses his valedictory speech to blurt out his enduring love for the girl who has been sitting in front of him since seventh grade. I was pretty damn skeptical going in, fearing something gimmicky & dubious that it would actually a) be funny and b) have any emotional depth, but the book won me over - and made me hoot with laughter more than once - at one point, I had to pull myself back together because my sides hurt. Much delighted with it. Wow.
(245/250)