Checking Free off the list with a recent gift card purchase, Demetri Martin’s Point Your Face at This. I enjoyed Martin’s last book This Is a Book. It was a combination of drawings and essays. You have to appreciate his humor to appreciate the essays but the drawings are pretty universal. One was a picture of highway traffic and all the cars were labeled ‘Idiot’ except for one labeled ‘Me.’
Point Your Face at This is an entire book of those drawings. My favorites were the break room and the ‘3D person in our living room’ drawings. I kind of wish I could get a small print of the last one and hang it somewhere. Even if you’re not a big Martin Fan it’s worth a read.
1) Fiction
2) Nonfiction – The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
3) Sci-Fi – Redshirts by John Scalzi
4) Fantasy
5) Mystery
6) Horror
7) Memoir/Biography – Data, A Love Story by Amy Webb
8) Chick Lit – Me and Mr. Darcy by Alexandra Potter
9) Feminist
10) Teen
11) Holiday
12) Essays – What Was I Thinking? ed. by Barbara Davilman & Liz Dubelman
13) Short Stories
14) Library
15) Animal
16) Book about Books
17) New – Pitch Perfect by Mickey Rapkin
18) Old – Dark and Stormy Knights edited by P. N. Elrod
19) Pop Science
20) Near
21) Far
22) Graphic Novel – Love and Capes: Do You Want to Know a Secret? by Thomas F. Zahler
23) Reread – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
24) Wild Card
25) Otherworldly Creature
26) Free – Point Your Face at This by Demetri Martin
27) Noteworthy
28) Bestseller
29) Themed Anthology
30) Steampunk
31) Movie-Book
32) Media
33) Travel
34) Food
35) Classic
36) Humor
37) Poetry
38) Past – Stasiland by Anna Funder
39) Future
40) Dystopia/Post-Apocalyptic
41) Zombie
42) Sports
Music: My Heart Will Go On by Bella Morte
