Asterios Polyp

Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
Really pushes the boundaries of the graphic novel by expressing memory and emotion through color and form. While the plot/story line isn't enthralling, the characters are people you'd like to know, if only to avoid them, and the drama is enough to make you cringe.

4.5/5

Hard Boiled

Hard Boiled Frank Miller and Geof Darrow
Um. Action-packed robot violence without much explanation. Basically the world is set up, you get tossed around in it for a while, then it's over. I understand it's meant to be a series but as a stand-alone book it doesn't do much other than shock. I'll give it a high score because the art is superb.

4/5

30 hrs later - Hard Boiled is still with me. It's haunting the edges of my conversations. It has entered my dreams.

Ida by Gertrude Stein

Ida by Gertrude Stein is difficult to tackle with words. While much of it captured the human condition/being a woman, much of it missed. Stein is so hard to like or dislike. So many of the sentences miss while the ones that strike, strike hard. It is tiring to read once you stop but enthralling while you're in it. Maybe I'm on too much cough medicine. Maybe Stein is elusive. Probably both.

4.5/5

My Favorite Books Ever

Top Five
- Lolita Nabokov
- Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera
- Catcher in the Rye Salinger
- Slaughterhouse 5 Vonnegut
- Wuthering Heights Bronte

Honorable Mentions
- Grendel Gardner
- American Gods Gaiman
- Lève Ta Jambe Mon, Poisson Est Mort! Doucet
- Woman in White Collins

Flight Vol. 2

Flight Volume 2 was just sitting on the graphic novel shelf at work waiting to be read. And read it I did. While not every short-story comic compilation can appeal to everyone, this book was full of adorable, heart wrenchingly wonderful stories. There aren't too many words in most of them making it a quick read. I recommend it to anyone who likes anything.

5/5