Books Read in September

Another month gone by, and another set of links to me reviews here and at ComicMix. I'm now tossing in covershots for the things I briefly mention here; let's see if that completely screws up the formatting....

• Osamu Tezuka, Buddha, Vol. 4: The Forest of Uruvela (9/1)
• Kiyohko Azuma, Yotsuba&!, Vol. 1 (9/2)
• Loren D. Estleman, Nicotine Kiss (9/4)
• Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese (9/5)
• Loren D. Estleman, American Detective (9/6)
• J. Torres & Eric Kim, Love As a Foreign Language, Vol. 1 (9/7)
  This counts as a "book" only by the skin of its teeth; it's essentially an issue of a comic, but it's squarebound and could sit on a shelf, so I'm counting it. I have no idea how long the series is, so I don't want to completely judge it until I get to the end. It's a romantic comedy about a Canadian ESL teacher in Korea, who is utterly homesick and ready to give up when he suddenly falls in love with a local woman.
• Woody Allen, Mere Anarchy (9/7)
• Simon Rich, Ant Farm (9/8)

• J. Torres & Eric Kim, Love As a Foreign Language, Vol. 2 (9/9)
  See above; our hero has only just barely spoken with the object of his love by the time this volume ends. This may end up being a longer series than I'd originally anticipated. Sadly, my local library seems to only have these two volumes, so I might never know how it ends.
• Jack Ziegler, Olive or Twist? (9/10)
• Christian Westerlund & Robert Nazeby Herzig, Angel Skin (9/11)
• Terry Pratchett, Making Money (9/12)
• Jesse Ball, Samedi the Deafness (9/13)
• Gahan Wilson, Is Nothing Sacred? (9/14)
• Tom Pomplun, editor, Graphic Classics: Bram Stoker (9/15)
• Derek Kirk Kim and Jesse Hamm, Good As Lily (9/17)
• Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg, The Plain Janes (9/17)
• Osamu Tezuka, Buddha, Vol. 5: Deer Park and Buddha, Vol. 6: Ananda (9/18)
• Kazu Kibuishi, Flight, Vol. 3 (9/19)
• James Sturm's America: God, Gold, and Golems (9/20)
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• Kyle Baker, Plastic Man: On the Lam! (9/21)
• Jo Walton, Ha'penny (9/24)
• Phil Yeh, Dinosaurs Across America (9/24)
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• Christian Slade, Korgi, Book 1 (9/25)
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• Jeffrey Brown, Incredible Change-Bots (9/26)
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• Joshua Ferris, Then We Came To the End (9/27)
• Milt Gross, He Done Her Wrong (9/27)
• Jordan Tate, The Contemporary Dictionary of Sexual Euphemisms (9/28)
  
• Stephan Pastis, Pearls Before Swine: Lions and Tigers and Crocs, Oh My! (9/29)
• Sam Henderson, Magic Whistle No. 9: Bigger, Larger, and Bigger! (9/30)
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As far as reading goes, it wasn't a bad month. (As far as my personal life goes, it was a wonderful month, since I got a new job, and, As You Know Bob, it's hard to concentrate on anything else when one is out of work.)