Reading List: September 2009

Severe lack of updates this past month for a lot of reasons, but for the most part due to a focus elsewhere. My thesis shall be finished on time, though I foresee a frantic weekend of rewriting after I get notes from my advisor and before I submit it to my committee. All said, it is actually going pretty well and I just might be able to massage the content into a journal submission or two.

I have no idea how much content I will have time or desire to post this month, but I am sure I will think of something. I may even take bits of my thesis and alter them into blog posts. Anything to procrastinate. Anyway, in the month of September I read 9 books and 8 graphic novels, and this is what they were:

• Open Secrets by Dayton Ward
• Rose by Jeff Smith & Charles Vess
• Stupid, Stupid Rat-Tails by Smith, et al.
• Enough About Me by David Shields
• Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
• Our Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar, et al.
• Nobility of Spirit by Rob Riemen
• Half in Love by Maile Meloy
• The Soul Key by Olivia Woods
• Powers: The 25 Coolest Dead Superheroes of All Time by Brian Michael Bendis & Michael Avon Oeming
• Swamp Thing: Earth to Earth by Alan Moore, et al.
• The Nobody by Jeff Lemire
• The Walking Dead: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman & Charlie Adlard
• The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
• Ron Carlson Writes a Story by Ron Carlson
• The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D'Ambrosio
• The Impostor's Daughter by Laurie Sandell

Dan Chaon is the best writer that nobody reads, and Await Your Reply was a damn good book. The short story collection by D'Ambrosio is also worth your time, but you should avoid Lemire's The Nobody and Temple's boring mystery novel.

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