I'm kind of just posting for the sake of my new Xavier icon. 1602 was disappointing storywise (I finally bought the hardcover version a few weeks ago and read it all for the first time), but the art made up for it so much. I showed it to my artist mother, who hates comics, and even she loved the look of it ( Read more... )

Amos Oz. To Know a Woman. You need to read it. I don't know how he does it, but he manages to write about these tiny everyday mysteries that make me itch to find out the answers. I was sitting in the library going, "Whoa! What exactly is his daughter's 'condition'? Why is he putting down the garden shears to walk down the street? What's up ( Read more... )

Am I a nerd? Before you answer, let me mention this: I'm currently reading two books on the Charlottetown Accords. AND LOVING IT ( Read more... )

Chapter 8, Blackburn Hamlet, is done. (Read from the beginning)

Also, I just finished reading Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers. The good news: it can still provoke a reaction, after 40 years, and it is readable. Not every hippy po-mo novel can say that for itself. The bad news: F. still comes off as a disgusting, inconsistent bully. And he's ( Read more... )