Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country is a typical Bryson travel book, this one about Australia. He rubs some people the wrong way, but I tend to enjoy them. I would of course like to visit Australia and see how much is exaggerated.

Joe Sacco's Palestine is a piece of journalism about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict told in the form of a graphic novel. Good, but a bit depressing.

David B.'s Epileptic is a graphic novel memoir of his childhood growing up in France with a brother who is epileptic. The most interesting parts were those describing all of the various "remedies" his parents tried.

I spent quite a few days reading Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Style-wise it reminded me a bit of Neal Stephenson's historical novels, but written about magicians instead of scientists.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 3:17 PM