- My Brain is Different by Monzusu
- Shiver by Junji Ito
- Sandman Omnibus Volume 1 by Neil Gaiman (et. al)
- Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh
- Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber
- Haynes Saxophone Manual by Stephen Howard
- Sandman Omnibus, Volume II by Neil Gaiman and Others
- Sandman Omnibus, Volume III by Neil Gaiman and Others
- Beyond the Burn Line by Paul McAuley
- Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier and Sheets by Brenna Thummler
- Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney
- The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
- The All-American by Joe Milan
- The Tulip by Anna Pavord
- Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
- Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
- Harrow County Library Edition, Vols. 1-4, by Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook
- Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry
- Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone by Stefan Kiesbye
- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
- The Ice is Coming, The Dark Bright Water, and Journey Behind the Wind by Patricia Wrightson
- Fun Home and Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
- Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings by Peter Pettinger
Like other reads, this one is being posted a little while after I’ve finished it. Somehow, this one was a very quick read for me, despite it being about 800-odd pages of comics (plus a large amount of Death pin-ups and cover art).
Somehow, Volume III of this series appealed to me more than the two previous volumes.
I know! I was surprised too!
When she was first introduced early in the Sandman series, I had my doubts about Death, but in the two mini-series featuring her here—The High Cost of Living and Time of Your Life, especially the former—I really came to enjoy her as a character. I also rather liked two other stories collected in this volume: Sandman: The Dream Hunters (both versions of it, though the art for the original is really notably striking); and The Sandman: Overture, which is a prequel to the series, but is also, for my money, the most interesting of all the Sandman narratives. Conceptually, Overture is Gaiman stretching his wings in a way I was hoping he’d do all along, and the art is vibrant and colorful and utterly striking. There was less twee and “beautiful sorrow” and more weirdness and sharp edges and blunt honesty and awkwardness, and I didn’t really feel ostentatiously flattered by the book once, which is my preference.
Where it took me a month to read Volume II, this took me something like 3 days—mostly just a few hours in the afternoon on each of those days. Now it’s back at the library, and I do wonder whether anyone else will sign it out. I was clearly the first to read it—some of the pages were stuck together, they way they sometimes are when they come from the printer—and I had to separate them to read the book. Who knows? Volumes I and II can only be borrowed if you request them out of storage, but this one actually still sits in the stacks… for now.