It's book post time.
Want more? Of course you do. Here's the March book post, February's edition, January's, the November / December one, October, September's (plus the picture book one), the June / July / August one (and the picture book one) and here's one with links to all the rest. You can always browse through everything filed under the "books" tag here.
Let's start off with the awesome collection of books I discovered over the course of the last month...
The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires / My Red Balloon by Kazuaki Yamada / Turtle Island by Kevin Sherry
The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go / Lovers at the Chameleon Club Paris 1932 by Francine Prose / Casebook by Mona Simpson / What Has Become Of You by Jan Elizabeth Watson
Peggy: A Brave Chicken on a Big Adventure by Anna Walker.
Little Pear Tree by Jenny Bowers / Hot Dog Cold Dog by Frann Preston-Gannon
How Fast Can You Go? by Kate Riggs and Nate Williams / Tyrannosaurus Wrecks! by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen and Zachariah OHora
The Dark Galleries: A Museum Guide to Painted Portraits in Film Noir, Gothic Melodramas, and Ghost Stories of the 1940s and 1950s by Steven Jacobs and Lisa Colpaert.
The Meaning of Maggie by Megan Jean Sovern / The Thickety: A Path Begins by J.A. White and Andrea Offermann
Echo of the Boom by Maxwell Neely-Cohen.
Have You Seen My Dragon? by Steve Light / File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents by Lemony Snicket and Seth / Matilda's Cat by Emily Gravett / Tap Tap Boom Boom by Elizabeth Bluemle and G. Brian Karas
Done: A Cook's Guide to Knowing When Food is Perfectly Cooked by James Peterson.
Shoetopia: Contemporary Footwear by Sue Huey and Kenny Kathryn / The Shoe Book by Nancy MacDonnell
Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience compiled by Shaun Usher / I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star by Judy Greer
Information Graphics: Animal Kingdom by Simon Rogers and Nicholas Blechman / 1 to 20, Animals Aplenty by Katie Viggers / Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense illustrated by Christine Pym
Lily the Unicorn by Dallas Clayton.
The Art of the Disney Golden Books by Charles Solomon.
Woven Textile Design by Jan Shenton / The Art of DreamWorks Animation by Ramin Zahed / Girls Standing on Lawns by Maira Kalman and Daniel Handler
Petit Collage: 25 Easy Craft and Decor Projects for a Playful Home by Lorena Siminovich.
The Girl and the Bicycle by Mark Pett / My Bus by Byron Barton / Big Bad Bubble by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri / Breathe by Scott Magoon
Camp Rex by Molly Idle.
The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel.
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.
I somehow made it through childhood without reading From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - now remedied.
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.
