- Cecil and Jordan in New York : stories / by Gabrielle Bell
- nice
- In the flesh / by Koren Shadmi
- Very dark for my taste
- The eternal smile : three stories / by Gene Luen Yang & Derek Kirk Kim
- Liked one story. Didn’t like the style of the other two.
- The professor’s daughter / [story by] Joanne Sfar ; [illustrated by] Emmanuel Guibert
- nice one
- Blue pills : a positive love story / by Frederik Peeters ; translated from the French by Anjali Singh
- AIDS etc. Was kind of dark.
With a new sewer 
at home this new year 2010, I have to get used to the crazy stitching going on.
Absolutely lovely book :
Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
More details here.
Today is the day-after-Thanksgiving or the Black Friday.
The packrat that I am, I had planned to wake up and rush out of the house before sunrise. But then later yesterday night, I decided not to shop anything atall today and spend the day at home doing something else more fun or productive.
Here is a great site for the Buy Nothing Day.
Well…then…I stayed awake through yesterday night and finally early in the morning I ended up spending around $1K online on electronics 
So now I have put away my creditcard and car keys, and no more visits to the brick & mortar shops today.
Where do you go to my lovely by Peter Sarstedt
Made it to the top of the charts in 1969….enjoy
Read the following books/comics this week
- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by The Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon
Was interesting and sometimes crazy following Meyer Landsman & Berko Shemets through a murder investigation.
- The Party, After You Left by Roz Chast
- Proof of Life on Earth by Roz Chast
Wonderful books of cartoons. Lots of those illustrations appeared in The New Yorker.
- Home Sweat Home by Lynn Johnston
And of course Scott Adams :
- Fugitive From the Cubicle Police
- Its not Funny if I have to Explain It
- What do you call a Sociopath in a Cubicle ?
(Answer : A Coworker )
Night – Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel’s memoir of guilt of surviving through the holocaust and concentration camps of Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, Buchewald etc as a teenager. He lost all his family to the struggle.
“Here there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends,” a Kapo tells him. “Everyone lives and dies for himself alone.”
Reading this book after Maus was an experience.
Maus by Art Spiegelman is based on his father’s – Vladek Spiegelman’s experience of surviving the holocaust as a Polish Jew. This book won a Pulitzer Prize Special Award. Its such a beautiful book which is autobiographical and tells the story of the Jews’ experience through the 2nd World war and survival instincts of people.
The imagery used to represent different people shows the relationship they had to each other : Jews as mice, Germans as cats, Poles as pigs, Americans as dogs, French as frogs, Romas(gypsies) as gypsy moths, Russians as bears, Swedes as moose/reindeer, African Americans as black dogs, British as fish etc.
Movie : Catch-22
Director: Mike Nichols
Language : English
Watched Catch-22 again after 4 years. Will be reading the Joseph Heller book again too. The additional life experiences(age..wisdom ) in the last 4 years, helped me appreciate a lot more nuances and sarcasm than I did when I watched it before. Love Love the movie.
Love the last scene where Yossarian hears about Orr and realizes something and jumps out of the window and …
Yossarian on the tree is a lovely scene too.
Dobbs: [Over the radio] Help him! Help him!
Yossarian: Help who?
Dobbs: Help the bombardier!
Yossarian: I’m the bombardier, I’m all right.
Dobbs: Then help HIM, help HIM!
Check out more Yossarian quotes here.
