Yeah, it's been another bad week for blogging, and I won't bother to give a specious excuse. But I
did run over to the library on Tuesday to pick up some books I'd inter-library-loaned, and found two paperbacks (at a quarter each!) from the library sale while I was there.
And, since lists of books seems to be the only content I can
consistently post here, I'll present those books, starting with the cheapies I get to keep:
The Leftovers![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vqFXoyH69rUOGZblvata1NmiC4-ZFlo_-mbLCh_CvHkBFl3BkDBsf9Lv5AdWO59G2DAUqW0CNJOYkUYUTMcOpD8ZK4XfA292EERaMtbeZgdh2CGZdl2Xhp-nEvkv6g8KNi680nFZnav_5vPWPD=s0-d)
, the 2011 novel by Tom Perrotta, in a fancy bound-galley form. I've read all of Perrotta's previous books -- and
reviewed The Abstinence Teacher![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tQ7_OFbIUgDG2orP536Pz9iy3DrzMerUrNniU4qQNwRRo1Zs_5AkmGTj0Cnxjc_EfvUNsXuutLQo4xirR68CNIeAitg37kpNixLsaWSL2HDzMKdkz0DoD3UAbgPKSZ_m4AcM7JOx5ARPT4hNES=s0-d)
, in a style that seems overly laudatory to me now -- and enjoyed them, partially because he's a good writer and partially because he's of an age and geographic persuasion to push an awful lot of my buttons.
Adam Gopnik's
Paris to the Moon![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_skqrdnyiCLjBukT49K5KzNNAJLc8vEqYDZcGxq0IxSy0DJQNcP9uC5Dc9DKS1fg8bbsFCh0Ak6AzXVmlv5uUnX23Eq_l4eOoSl2Hgc1gHFPKCWiOraeqIhLfwFG9ulLnMfb93jDAQnt1SpW1nL=s0-d)
, his bestselling and hugely popular memoir of moving to France to write about it for an American audience. I avoid bestselling books somewhat reflexively, from working in the business so long, and I am hugely jealous of people who get to do things like this. Buy, hey, it was a quarter, and it's supposed to be really good.
Fodor's Disneyland & Southern California with Kids, 10th Edition![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uezaohNfhIAOcs424xCrSmMhq0qhLnT72ow4ZwjbIw-gfp6w8uX3E5lTaEdCZdnFFuYWlGGDzpBUzwsN85pSN1UYHomjc_QfRzNgXUDTcC_8qp0F6s0GqwhsYenbz6m-VsAO2kIIylO4JI2Ocx=s0-d)
is by Michael and Trisa Knight, and there are no points awarded for guessing why I'm reading it. (Though my guys -- who will be 14-and-a-half and just shy of 12 during that trip -- are probably not well described as "kids" these days.)
My Friend Dahmer![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tZNVRn9FQc4uIio2H9E99rCA2LMYn7tuf1cXZutqP8MS_7aSalUgRpWs4IVltInYUwVRyZwiHfYryRE0lT7zg1wMq2HFMBeuPyKAnWww0WjlK-ztHb8HhbtaNhqSJKsMobuz3bPZWMtc0U-ho=s0-d)
by Derf Backderf. Derf has been an alt-weekly cartoonist for some time -- from back when that was a reasonable career for an adult, since there were plenty of alt-weeklies and they all carried a bunch of cartoonists -- and this is an expansion/reworking of autobiographical material that he originally published more than a decade ago. And, yes, Derf did go to high school with, and was in the same circles with, Jeffrey Dahmer. (I
reviewed Derf's last book,
Punk Rock and Trailer Parks![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sqyB27rZY_AoYY5xajkhONT6qsOEx8ezPnUM_u9uQPcAKFdYW4J3r2qduevMrUgu4vFr1yfnZwFke-NB_qUKy9V93ahRmYgwphfTQByD18tyy7unnMmo3DYFKRqmcnbmjy3fAsX-WLtrKMqXiE=s0-d)
, in a round-up during my Eisner deathmarch a few years back.)
Freeway![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tqzMx90aybBAV6fQLt5JXEOl2I9xSTiazxp0Ufz9F_VdQQ_gdbz7WbzNz8xD5YUtxX3FEVaEv_mOB5KBd9uD8Xwy0_GtrRpffUFDQQ2IBkX5YOjPtQWtvhJu7wovKpiWv5bFO6Aw12ks3JtdI=s0-d)
is a big fat graphic novel by Mark Kalesniko, whom I don't know. But it's semi-autobiographical, was published by Fantagraphics (who ain't no dummies), and looks interesting.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjajBaSCzOu1yABDbeAJXkheL1PwBCmDQE4yXmv3cQvx-EnnSO9_K6VcNYjwvItQo8zswHwXnpZ7FxINSsI5TDBOseiH6M6ZUyfz6LJPraEL8YykBKP-_xK6xjjlM2AE9GALU76/s200/Dapper+Caps+%2526+Pedal+Copters.JPG)
David Malki!'s
Dapper Caps & Pedal-Copters![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vbkx63l9iQZyuk4dVOOfsOzx2wfKc1p92dv2axkkZv0q77HOK359M99D6SMrzpPcwdAMfiVe0VmRoqrImzItApUB8RTJV_Q9HdbsFi-24wSRu5iD3ziJ72fxLt5Wk2Bm7HzDAYylzVMFgtz77L=s0-d)
is the third collection of his Victorian clip-art webcomic
Wondermark, which I've been reading and enjoying since I discovered the first collection during that same Eisner push I mentioned a couple of paragraphs back.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii7WoJ1wK1Mx21ZMmHgQRFldfxiWHeGsTMIvCstKORoKbgyyFESwFrQgO2VgzcSwRiiqhspQvahimm0wf4a_k8PUO7ePFkQOGi1g0YYWQ87YkaEXXR2lG7Whyphenhyphengd1f1R6gJ9Y84/s200/Dante%2527s+Divine+Comedy.JPG)
And last is
Dante's Divine Comedy![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uIC-dkz55hJOMXt15kJd5NjqpTq6RVAKvjYg9pnAXwMs532LBMC27NUJBBiomB1dFOQVLTi1PHoLNx4cgEVE4zZ1HvgUa7LM3kvxTu75TqjoLJgNlGEF33rF6m6WIoZ89DrFOADNe6fsE58TRX=s0-d)
, as adapted into comics by Seymour Chwast. I
reviewed Chwast's second classic-work-into-comics item,
The Canterbury Tales![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_u2ABzfQlvYjYGcXDbHbz-BNpDj5ALzG83T5anre-n2SJfkzzroaznlEBs4GtEPiypKADQ_aH0gG5WbBhxjVlcNSTNAPhg-OzUJtZKBtXC3K_34VjgqbLxGjbIMYEuaMzllytfSHeuPaRAsePo=s0-d)
, a couple of months ago, and I clearly liked it well enough to go back for another dose.
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