A licky wet tongue shatterd Jimmy’s dreams of glory.
About the Book
In this graphic novel aimed at kids, Jimmy loves to read war comics. And dreams about being a WW1 era fighter pilot. Early one Sunday morning, as he walks his dog, he discovers a bearded, scruffy man dozing in a derelict factory and wonders why [...]

“And there young man, what do you see?”

It is 1730 when Raphael Pommeroy arrives in the West Indies with his ornithology professor.  They’re supposed to be in search of the almost-extinct dodo… but Raphael is quickly entranced with the piratical inhabitants of the island, becoming obsessed with their vision of a world where all people [...]

It’s time to take a look back on the month of February to see what happened in the life of this blog. During the last month 1600 visitors stopped by Bart’s Bookshelf and that makes it my 2nd busiest month yet (and the busiest ever non Read-a-Thon month) not bad for the shortest one in [...]

I can’t believe I forgot to sign up to this one! Especially as I had such a great time with it last year. There are four different levels of participation this time around, and I’m going to for my Major in 2009 (although I reserve the right to shoot for extra credit!)

Minor: Read [...]

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and Alessandra that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library.
 
Well I stopped off at the local library, to drop off Fun Home, and see what was available in the sadly lacking graphic novel section, and I did pick up a couple [...]

Welcome fellow Sunday Saloners (and everyone else who drops by!). February has been a good month so far reading wise – helped no doubt by having a week off work – with 12 books already finished so far! So it’s quite possible that the shortest month of the year is likely to be [...]

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and Alessandra that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library.

 

Well I called in to the library on the way home tonight on the pretence of collecting my online login information, so I can reserve and re-new stuff online. [...]

I’ve been working on this post on or off for a few months now, just tweaking things as and when I thought of them, still it’s been a fun few days finishing and tidying up the thing.
On the reading front this year can only be classified as a success! After a few years [...]

Ongoing

2009

2008

This is another of those semi-autobiographical graphic novel memoirs.
Highly acclaimed, Swiss comic artist Fredrik Peters delivers a (mostly) intimate, poetic and accessible memoir. Following the story or Peeters’ relationship with his girlfriend Cati and her three-year-old son, what sets this appart, is that both Cati and her son are HIV positive.
The story, follows their relationship [...]