Seven Favorite Books Without Commentary… or at least much commentary

As with many Social Media thingies most get you to divulge more information about you to your public so you can make more connections and find that you are not alone or not as weird as you once thought. I participated in the 10 films in 10 days by just showing a still from the movie nothing else after being nominated by my older brother. Recently one has been bouncing around along the same vein- this one has to deal with books for a week and only showing the cover. I saw some colleagues nominated and decided instead of waiting I would just jump in and do it without being “nominated” but also without the pressure of having to nominate other people. “Instead of waiting to be asked by a real person I’ve accepted the challenge from an imaginary friend to post 7 books I love- no explanations, no reviews, just the cover I’d challenge someone, but I just thought it was a pretty awesome idea-“. I’ll add a sentence about each even though that wasn’t part of the initial piece, since this doesn’t have a character limit, why not. The covers are from the dictions I first read, so they might not be what you see if you hunt down the book. Remember “Never judge a book by its cover”

SO what’s my list?

• Just Only John by Jack Kent – A boy with an active imagination who wants more.

• The Wuggie Norple Story by Daniel Pinkwater & Tomie dePaolo – It’s got a cat in it and a whistle fixer- what else could you ask for?

• Big Bad Bruce by Bill Peet. My intro to Bill Peet back when I was “Mr. Bruce”

• The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas Disch. It was a book before a movie!

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline It was a book before a movie too and while I completely understand how difficult it would be to hold an audiences attention for hours of watching someone play Pac Man, “Never judge a book by its movie”

• Dream Park by Larry Niven & Steven Barnes. Holographic Roll Playing Game, with a murder mystery & in awesome amusement park? What’s not to love? Grab some cargo and find a copy.

• Another Fine Myth (Part of the Myth Adventures Series) by Robert Lynn Aspirin. My introduction to the genre “Comic Fantasy.” Full of puns and an amazing multiverse full of demons. As I always recommend when it comes to series- start at the beginning with Skeeve & Garkin.

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You’ll notice that these are either picture books or Science Fiction/Fantasy, as a Graphic Novel/Comics guy I’d need another list or two to decide what are my favorite in that medium. I say two because of All Ages vs. ummm… not all ages, because some comics just aren’t for kids. I’ll have to look into that for a future post.