My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
I finished my second book of 2008 yesterday morning (very early). It was quite good. It’s The Big Book of Bad by Jonathan Vankin, one in a series of “Big Books” published by Paradox Press in the late 90′s. I bought my first Big Book, if I recall correctly, at a small general store by the side of I-70 in Colorado while on a road trip from California to Massachusetts. I think it was The Big Book of the Unexplained. I have 17 Big Books now, which I think is all of them. They’re all really interesting, although I didn’t like The Big Book of Martyrs nearly as much as the others.
Because this book is a graphic novel, I’m only counting its pages as 1/2. I’m going all Calvinball on this project, yo.
Current stats:
1. Neil Gaiman – Anansi Boys – 1-6-08 (287 pp)
2. Jonathan Vankin – The Big Book of Bad – 1-7-08 (93 pp)
Totals:
Books: 2
Pages: 380
I’ll probably have to start putting those behind a cut at some point.