While we're at it... 2009 & 2008:

Books read in 2009:


1. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007, edited by Dave Eggers
2. Things I've Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
3. American Journals by Albert Camus
4. The Outsider by Albert Camus
5. Maus I by Art Spiegelman
6. The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets, edited by Dominic Luxford
7. The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
8. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
9. Notebooks 1935-1942 by Albert Camus
10. American Splendor: Another Dollar by Harvey Pekar
11. The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
12. Cecil and Jordan in New York by Gabrielle Bell
13. A Calendar of Consolation selected by Leonard Woolf
14. The Pelee Project by Jane Christmas
15. A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
16. Earth Democracy by Vandana Shiva
17. 1969 by Eileen Myles
18. Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences by Lawrence Weschler

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Books read in 2008:


1. An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons & True Stories, edited by Ivan Brunetti
2. The Pure and the Impure by Colette
3. Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger
4. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
5. Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom From Around the World, edited by Lucy Popescu and Carole Seymour-Jones
6. Blue Pills by Frederik Peeters
7. Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
8. Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
9. Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
10. Chance in Hell by Gilbert Hernandez
11. Skim by Mariko Tamaki
12. Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by Bell Hooks
13. Art Objects by Jeanette Winterson
14. Moomin, Volume One by Tove Jansson
15. American Splendor: Another Day by Harvey Pekar
16. Artists in Times of War by Howard Zinn
17. Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson

... 2007 & 2006 to come...

2010: The Year of The Walking Dead (and some other books too)

Books read in 2010: In order of reading from left to right, top to bottom (see list below):


1. Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
2. Pedro & Me by Judd Winick
3. Sylvia Plath Selected Poems chosen by Ted Hughes
4. From Wonderland With Love: Danish Comics in the Third Millennium edited by Steffen P. Maarup
5. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
6. Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos H. Papadimitriou
7. The Walking Dead Volume 1: Days Gone By by Robert Kirkman
8. The Walking Dead Volume 2: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman
9. Market Day by James Sturm
10. The Walking Dead Volume 3: Safety Behind Bars by Robert Kirkman
11. The Walking Dead Volume 4: The Heart's Desire by Robert Kirkman
12. The Walking Dead Volume 5: The Best Defense by Robert Kirkman
13. The Walking Dead Volume 6: This Sorrowful Life by Robert Kirkman
14. The Walking Dead Volume 7: The Calm Before by Robert Kirkman
15. The Walking Dead Volume 8: Made to Suffer by Robert Kirkman
16. The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn
17. The Walking Dead Volume 9: Here We Remain by Robert Kirkman
18. The Walking Dead Volume 10: What We Become by Robert Kirkman
19. Locavore by Sarah Elton
20. Kicking at Clouds: A Winter in Palestine 2003/04 by Sonya McRae (zine)
21. The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear the Hunters by Robert Kirkman
22. The Incident Report by Martha Baillie
23. The Walking Dead Volume 12: Life Among Them by Robert Kirkman
24. The Case for Books: Past, Present & Future by Robert Darnton
25. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

More Finnish Things

Making korvapuusti with mom...

joulutortut!

and a cute commercial from finland:

christmas craft nerd.

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picked up this tote from canzine in toronto, not long ago. made by the fine folks at ampersand ampersand:

september, nyc.

strand bookstore artist series tote bag: david hockney. complete with (my addition) "library lover" pin by jesse harris.



lunchskins reusable food bag from the moma design store. good for things such as banana loaf or carrots :)

sourcebook misc. four.