Read in July

It's been pretty damn hot this past month, so I haven't felt like spending any more time in the basement in front of the computer than I had to. So I suspect several of the reviews below are somewhat half-assed, and I apologize for that. (On the other hand, at this time last year, I think I'd read a dozen or two books that I hadn't written about, so there's always something wrong.)

Since Book-A-Day keeps rolling along, all you'll find below are links; this is basically just an index. And there's no reason for me not to get right into it:

• Matt Wagner, Grendel: Behold the Devil (7/1)
• William Poundstone, Priceless (7/1)
  
• Jason Shiga, Meanwhile (7/2)
  
• Darby Conley, Treasury of the Lost Litter Box (7/2)
  
• Guido Crepax, The Story of O (7/3)
  
• Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms (7/3)
  
• Dash Shaw, BodyWorld (7/5)
  
• Gahan Wilson, Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons, Book One: 1957-1973 (7/5)
  
• Jason Shiga, Bookhunter (7/6)
  
• Herbert Warren Wing, The World of P.G. Wodehouse (7/6)
  
• Gahan Wilson, Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons, Book Two: 1974-1993 (7/6)
  
• Mike Mignola & various, Hellboy, Vol. 10: The Crooked Man & Others (7/7)
  
• Louis Bou, We Are Paper Toys! (7/8)
  
• Anna Jane Grossman, Obsolete (7/8)
  
• Ross Campbell, Wet Moon, Book 4: Drowned in Evil (7/9)
  
• Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, 1973 to 1974 (7/10)
  
• Jerry Holkins & Mike Krahulik, Penny Arcade, Vol. 6: The Halls Below (7/12)
  
• Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa & Mike Perkins, Stephen King's The Stand: Soul Survivors (7/13)
  
• Kazu Kibuishi, editor, Flight, Vol. 7 (7/14)
  
• Mark Millar & John Romita, Jr., Kick-Ass (7/15)
  
• Alex Robinson, Tricked (7/16)
  
• Tove Jansson, Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 4 (7/19)
  
• Matt Wagner, John K. Snyder III, Jay Geldhof, Bernie Mireault, & Tim Sale, Grendel: God and the Devil (7/20)
  
• Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders, editors, Swords & Dark Magic (7/20)
  
• Matt Kindt, 2 Sisters (7/21)
  
• various, The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, Vol. 11 (7/22)
  
• Jonathan Vankin & several artists, Tokyo Days, Bangkok Nights (7/23)
  
• Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour (7/25)
  
• Jules Feiffer, Backing Into Forward (7/25)
  
• Isuna Hasekura, Keito Koume, & Jyuu Ayakura, Spice & Wolf, Vol. 1 (7/26)
  
• Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza (7/28)
  
• Jason Thompson & Victor Hao, King of RPGs, Vol. 1 (7/29)
  
• Gahan Wilson, Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons, Book Three: 1994-2008 (7/31)
  

And that was that.