100books update
1. Naked Pictures of Famous People - Jon Stewart
2. Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
3. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett
4. Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud
5. The Dark Knight - Dennis O'Neil
6. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town - Stephan Leacock
7. Asterix: Obelix and Co. - Rene Goscinny
8. Fables Volume 13: The Great Fables Crossover - Bill Willingham
9. Maria Chapdelaine - Louis Hemon
10. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
11. Dog River Confidential - Michele Sponagle
12. Europe and the Making of Modernity - Robin W. WInks and Joan Neuberger
13.The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
14. Barometer Rising - High MacLennan
15. Maus Volume 1: My Father Bleeds History - Art Spiegalman
16. Maus Volume 2: And here my Troubles Began - Art Spiegalman
17. Paradise Lost - John Milton
18. Klee Wyck - Emily Carr
19. Watchmen - Alan Moore
20. Tintin: King Ottokar's Scepter - Herge
21. Paradise Regained - John Milton
22. The Redemption of Althalus - David and Leigh Eddings
23. The Life of Graham - Bob McCabe
24. Tintin: Flight 714 - Herge
25. Tintin: The Black Island- Herge
26. Tintin: The Land of Black Gold - Herge
27. Tintin and the Lake of Sharks - Herge
28. My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
29. Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
30. Endymion Spring - Matthew Skelton
31. Samson Agonistes - Milton
17, 18, 21, 28, 30, and 31 were all read for school. Everything else is pleasure.
16. My opinion still stands that this is a graphic novel worth reading despite the difficult subject matter. The interesting thing about volume 2 is that the time spent in the present is a lot more prevalent, as the story moves from being solely about Art Spiegalman's father's experiences, to being about him and his father's relationship.
17. I really really liked Paradise Lost. I liked it as much as I like Shakespeare and I like Shakespeare a lot. It was like Milton woke up one day and decided that the Bible needed to be more epic. I liked it quite a bit more than some of the other things that we read by Milton. (I included his major poems and dramas on this list. Everything else we read was either a poem or a short tract or a portion of a tract).
18. I did not enjoy this book all that much. It's writing by the Canadian painter Emily Carr. It didn't strike me the way that some of the other books did.
19. This was a reread, but since the last time I read it was around the time the movie came out, I figure it counts. The first time I read it, I admit I found it really depressing, and didn't really get it. This time around, I still found it really depressing and think I may have understood it a little better.
20, 24-27. Okay, so in my Comics class, we had to do presentations, and one of the things that my prof wanted one of us to do was to look into the motion-capture Tintin movies that Steven Spielberg is making. So someone looked into them, and couldn't find a whole lot of stuff other than what books the movies are covering, and the cast. Not a whole lot about what the movie looks like or anything like that. Being a fan of Tintin from when I was little, the presentation made me rather excited, for a movie that is coming out in a year and half.
21. Proving that even in the 17th Century, sequels generally sucked. Seriously though, it could not beat Paradise Lost.
22. Not a bad fantasy book, although it lacked a bit of tension. I felt that everything worked out too well for the characters, and even when something dramatic happened, nobody seemed all that bothered by it. "Oh we have a goddess on our side, no big deal, it'll be fine."
23. A biography of Graham Chapman, one of the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus. It was actually an interesting read. Graham Chapman lived a very interesting life, one that I had no idea about.
28. Read it for my spring course. While it was interesting, especially in terms of narrative style, it was not the book I was expecting it to be. It felt like it was half murder mystery, half philosophic discourse on art. I was kind of hoping for more murder mystery personally.
29. I quite liked this one of Pratchett's. There were a few things I weren't fond of, but overall it was rather enjoyable. And it was nice to see Otto again (the vampire obsessed with Flash photography). And I did like the vampire addicted to coffee.
30. Read for my spring course as well. Though geared towards younger readers, I found the book to be really smart. The author's an Oxford scholar, so that's to be expected, but it was like anything went over my head. It was quite enjoyable.
31. Again, Milton seems to enjoy making Bible stories more interesting. It's a drama about Samson, and it really makes him into a tragic hero. An interesting look at that story.
In other news:
-Things have been pretty quiet. School, work, watch anime and stuff. I really like my spring session though. It's all about the history of books and it's been really neat.
- I did have a job interview with the Provincial Archives, but they ultimately went with the other applicant. It was simply a matter of bad timing. Still, it's good to know that my resume is getting out there.
2. Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
3. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett
4. Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud
5. The Dark Knight - Dennis O'Neil
6. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town - Stephan Leacock
7. Asterix: Obelix and Co. - Rene Goscinny
8. Fables Volume 13: The Great Fables Crossover - Bill Willingham
9. Maria Chapdelaine - Louis Hemon
10. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
11. Dog River Confidential - Michele Sponagle
12. Europe and the Making of Modernity - Robin W. WInks and Joan Neuberger
13.The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
14. Barometer Rising - High MacLennan
15. Maus Volume 1: My Father Bleeds History - Art Spiegalman
16. Maus Volume 2: And here my Troubles Began - Art Spiegalman
17. Paradise Lost - John Milton
18. Klee Wyck - Emily Carr
19. Watchmen - Alan Moore
20. Tintin: King Ottokar's Scepter - Herge
21. Paradise Regained - John Milton
22. The Redemption of Althalus - David and Leigh Eddings
23. The Life of Graham - Bob McCabe
24. Tintin: Flight 714 - Herge
25. Tintin: The Black Island- Herge
26. Tintin: The Land of Black Gold - Herge
27. Tintin and the Lake of Sharks - Herge
28. My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
29. Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
30. Endymion Spring - Matthew Skelton
31. Samson Agonistes - Milton
17, 18, 21, 28, 30, and 31 were all read for school. Everything else is pleasure.
16. My opinion still stands that this is a graphic novel worth reading despite the difficult subject matter. The interesting thing about volume 2 is that the time spent in the present is a lot more prevalent, as the story moves from being solely about Art Spiegalman's father's experiences, to being about him and his father's relationship.
17. I really really liked Paradise Lost. I liked it as much as I like Shakespeare and I like Shakespeare a lot. It was like Milton woke up one day and decided that the Bible needed to be more epic. I liked it quite a bit more than some of the other things that we read by Milton. (I included his major poems and dramas on this list. Everything else we read was either a poem or a short tract or a portion of a tract).
18. I did not enjoy this book all that much. It's writing by the Canadian painter Emily Carr. It didn't strike me the way that some of the other books did.
19. This was a reread, but since the last time I read it was around the time the movie came out, I figure it counts. The first time I read it, I admit I found it really depressing, and didn't really get it. This time around, I still found it really depressing and think I may have understood it a little better.
20, 24-27. Okay, so in my Comics class, we had to do presentations, and one of the things that my prof wanted one of us to do was to look into the motion-capture Tintin movies that Steven Spielberg is making. So someone looked into them, and couldn't find a whole lot of stuff other than what books the movies are covering, and the cast. Not a whole lot about what the movie looks like or anything like that. Being a fan of Tintin from when I was little, the presentation made me rather excited, for a movie that is coming out in a year and half.
21. Proving that even in the 17th Century, sequels generally sucked. Seriously though, it could not beat Paradise Lost.
22. Not a bad fantasy book, although it lacked a bit of tension. I felt that everything worked out too well for the characters, and even when something dramatic happened, nobody seemed all that bothered by it. "Oh we have a goddess on our side, no big deal, it'll be fine."
23. A biography of Graham Chapman, one of the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus. It was actually an interesting read. Graham Chapman lived a very interesting life, one that I had no idea about.
28. Read it for my spring course. While it was interesting, especially in terms of narrative style, it was not the book I was expecting it to be. It felt like it was half murder mystery, half philosophic discourse on art. I was kind of hoping for more murder mystery personally.
29. I quite liked this one of Pratchett's. There were a few things I weren't fond of, but overall it was rather enjoyable. And it was nice to see Otto again (the vampire obsessed with Flash photography). And I did like the vampire addicted to coffee.
30. Read for my spring course as well. Though geared towards younger readers, I found the book to be really smart. The author's an Oxford scholar, so that's to be expected, but it was like anything went over my head. It was quite enjoyable.
31. Again, Milton seems to enjoy making Bible stories more interesting. It's a drama about Samson, and it really makes him into a tragic hero. An interesting look at that story.
In other news:
-Things have been pretty quiet. School, work, watch anime and stuff. I really like my spring session though. It's all about the history of books and it's been really neat.
- I did have a job interview with the Provincial Archives, but they ultimately went with the other applicant. It was simply a matter of bad timing. Still, it's good to know that my resume is getting out there.