Holy crap holy crap holy crap holy crap holy crap holy crap

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Sort of makes me wonder about my integrity..... You think you know a guy.....

What to Get Me for Coast Guard Day (funny pictures edition)

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Yep. Still no presents on my doorstep.

So, ah, comics sound good? Everybody loves giving comics away, right?

I find myself hugely fascinated and desperate to know more about a character I've only vaguely been aware of in the past (for a bit on why, read this). But where should I start? Well, when in doubt, start with the 852-page book, I always say.

How should I know which Jason book I want to read first. How am I supposed to choose. Hhhhhh. Okay, fine. How about this one?

C'mon! Scare me!

The time has finally come to own them all, starting here.

The more I hear about it, the more I wonder why we all haven't read it yet.

If I'm ever going to know what I'm talking about, then I need to read this before I die. You know what I mean? Well you will. Soon.

Can I help being fascinated? No. Should you encourage me? Yes!


(more)

What's a guy got to do?

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So Zarahemla's new title is raising some dust in the LDS-lit blogging world. I haven't read it myself--every time I'm about to pull out my wallet, I remember I'm still mad at the company's owner and can't bear to send him twelve bucks (which sucks for the author). But as I look around, it seems every schmuck with a blog got a copy! Hey! What gives! Zarahemla Book has used two of my reviews in promotional emailings, I've purchased with American dollars all but two of their books, and they treated me like an amateur freshfaced from the backwoods. Then they don't even offer me a free copy. Even though they sent it to a bunch of people predisposed to hate it.

Incredible.

If you want to read the book for free, you may. But if I do and I give a good review I had darned well better get a free copy of their next tome. Seriously.

5 (baker's dozen)

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065) A Son Is Forever by various, finished July 29

My mother gave me this Blue Mountain collection for Coast Guard Day in 2002 with an inscription saying she couldn't choose one as more appropriate than the others to describe her feelings for me. So I read them all.

Why did it take six years?

Hoo.

Well, um, they're all kind of the same. And although they look like poems, there's not much poetry there.

But I appreciate the sentiment. I've realized that my mom likes sentimental greeting cards and the like and so I'm trying to learn to appreciate them for what they are intended to be. It's kinda hard. But hey! I'm totally filial!

I know.

I've read the book.

days away from six years

064) Good ol' Snoopy by Charles M. Schultz, finished July 13

I couldn't help myself. It was sitting there. I had time.

And I LOVED it.

maybe twenty minutes

063) Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi, finished July 13

I tell you what: after reading this, I'm nervous about leaving Lady Steed alone in a room with nothing but ladies.

a day

062) A Doré Treasury edited by James Stevens, finished July 12?

I've been eating and breathing Doré lately and this collection is one I would recommend to anyone wanting a nice variety of Doré prints to leave out on the table. Also, Stevens's introduction was a nice, brief and quite interesting look at Doré's life and career. You can find it for under ten bucks on Amazon if you nose around a little.

better part of an hour

061) Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; finished July 8

I first read this in high school after being blown away by Cat's Cradle. I didn't like it as much. I started out liking it much more this time, but in the end, still not one of my favorite Vonneguts. Sorry, rest of the world. So it goes.

over two weeks

Previously:

065) A Son Is Forever by various, finished July 29
064) Good ol' Snoopy by Charles M. Schultz, finished July 13
063) Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi, finished July 13
062) A Doré Treasury edited by James Stevens, finished July 12?
061) Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; finished July 8
060) The Enoch Letters by Neal A. Maxwell, finished July
059) Sock Monkey: The Inches Incident by Tony Millionaire, finished July 3
058) The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 by Thomas Ott, finished July 2
057) Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi, finished July 1
056) 300 by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, finished June 16
055) Fox Bunny Funny by Andy Hartzell, finished June 16
054) Where Did I Leave My Glasses?: The What, When, and Why of Normal Memory Loss by Martha Weinman Lear, finished June 15
053) The Mystery Guest by Grégoire Bouillier, trans. Lorin Stein, finished June 14
052) The Legend of Spud Murphy by Eoin Colfer, finished June 10
051) Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood, finished June 10
050) Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's, Humor Category edited by D. Eggers, K. Shay, L. Epstein, J. Warner and S. Kleid, finished June 9
049) Bikeman by Thomas F. Flynn, finished June 5
048) Fool Moon by Jim Butcher, finished June 5
047) The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, finished June 2
046) Sixty Poems by Charles Simic, finished May 30
045) Replay by Ken Grimwood, finished May 28 044 The Age of the Conglomerates: A Novel of the Future by Thomas Nevins, finished May 27
044) The Age of the Conglomerates: A Novel of the Future by Thomas Nevins, finished May 27
043) W;t by Margaret Edson, finished April 19
042) Halo and Sprocket Volume 1: Welcome to Humanity by Kerry Cullen, finished May 17
041) Storm Front by Jim Butcher, finished May 16>
040) 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill, finished May 9
039) I Am the President of Ice Cream by Geoff Sebesta, finished May 4
038) On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, finished May 3
037) The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester, finished May Day
036) The Drifting Classroom Vol. 1 by Kazuo Umezu, finished April 30
035) The Complete Peanuts 1965 - 1966 by Charles M. Schulz, finished April 29
034) Nextwave: Agents Of H.A.T.E Volume 1: This Is What They Want by Warren Ellis et Stuart Immonen et al, finished April 29
033) Batman: Hush, Vol. 2 by Jeph Loeb et al, finished April 29
032) Batman: Hush, Vol. 1 by Jeph Loeb et al, finished April 28
031) Chéri by Colette, finished April 17
030) Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett, finished April 13
029) Animal Farm by George Orwell, finished April 8
028) Macbeth by William Shakespeare, finished April 7
027) On the Road to Heaven by Coke Newell, finished April 4
026) The Great American Citizenship Quiz: Can You Pass Your Own Country's Citizenship Test? by Solomon M. Skolnick, finished March 23
025) Long After Dark by Todd Robert Petersen, finished March 23
024) The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, finished March 21
023) Robot Dreams by Sara Varon, finished March 10
022) The Complete Peanuts 1963-1964 by Charles M. Schulz, finished March 9
021) Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, finished March 7
020) Unorthodox Practices by Marissa Piesman, finished March 5
019) Happy Hour at Casa Dracula by Marta Acosta, finished March 4
018) A War of Gifts: An Ender Story by Orson Scott Card, finished Leap Day
017) Watership Down by Richard Adams, finished February 26
016) Old Boy Volume One by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi, finished February 25
015) Case Histories by Kate Atkinson, finished February 18
014) Ultimate Spider-Man: Ultimate Collection, Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley, finished February 15
013) Trusting Jesus by Jeffrey R. Holland, finished February 11
012) Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham et al., finished February 11
011) Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach, finished February 4
010) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, finished February 3
009) American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, finished LDotFMotNY
008) Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio by Andrei Codrescu, finished January 22
007) Marriage Lines: Notes of a Student Husband by Ogden Nash, finished January 22
006) Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, finished January 20
005) The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time by Douglas Adams, finished January 14
004) Lord of the Flies by William Golding, finished January 10
003) Rising Sun by Michael Crichton, finished January 7
002) The Marketing of Sister B by Linda Hoffman Kimball, finished January 2
001) Animal Farm by George Orwell, finished January 1



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