It's book post time.
Let's start off with the awesome collection of books I discovered over the course of the last month...
Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers: Portraits of 50 Famous Folks & All Their Weird Stuff by James Gulliver Hancock.
The Mermaid and the Shoe by K.G. Campbell.
A Lion in Paris by Beatrice Alemagna.
Magic Color Flair: The World of Mary Blair by John Canemaker.
The Bend of the World by Jacob Bacharach.
Fictitious Dishes: An Album of Literature's Most Memorable Meals by Dinah Fried /
Seven Sisters Style by Rebecca C. Tuite
The Painter by Peter Heller.
Orion and the Dark by Emma Yarlett.
The Baby Tree by Sophie Blackall.
Shackleton's Journey by William Grill.
Bake Sale by Sara Varon.
A Boy and a Jaguar by Alan Rabinowitz and Catia Chien.
This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki.
Andre the Giant: Life and Legend by Box Brown.
Lulu's Mysterious Mission by Judith Viorst and Kevin Cornell.
The Promise by Nicola Davies and Laura Carlin.
Lantern Sam and the Blue Streak Bandits by Michael D. Beil, illustrated by Roman Muradov.
As far as actual reading goes, this was a slow month. Well, actually, it was a very FAST month - so I didn't get my typical amount of reading done.
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker - it sent me into a bit of a depression while reading it (as I imagined being in a similar situation), but it was good.
Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl - I now know soooooooo many Dahl factoids. I also now know that I probably would gotten into fights with him for a lot of the stupid shit he pulled. In what situation would I have been hanging out with Roald Dahl? Who knows. I thought the author did a good job of showing Roald - warts and all - but at some points he'd tell a terrible, terrible story in which Mr. Dahl seemed like a complete and utter asshole, and then he'd attempt to construe it into being just an endearing little facet of his Dahl's personality. "Oh ho ho, that jokester." BY NO MEANS. I still love his books as much as I ever did, though. And I plan to read
this biography as well.