In the WooWoo Wonderland™

So just like before, before, and before, this'll be another year of the 50bookchallenge!

And yet again, I've got my clever slogan appropriated from Nathan Rabin's "My Year of Flops"!


One Year.


One Woman.


Over Fifty Books.


Welcome to the


Fifty Books Challenge.



Ever read a book... on weed?

Courtesy The Perry Bible Fellowship

So here's a wrap up of last year's Fifty Books Challenge:( Oh, Come On, You Know You're Curious... )

More of the Fifty Books Challenge! This was a Goodwill find from my father.



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More of the Fifty Books Challenge! This was in a stack from my parents' online bookselling business.



( Parallel Lives, Familial Secrets, and the Redemptive Power of Choice )

More of the Fifty Books Challenge! This was a Goodwill find from my father.



( You Have to See It To Believe It )

More of the Fifty Books Challenge! This was a library request.



( Bedding Through Hollywood, Fun With Crossbows, the Cartoonists' Bella Lugosi )

More of the Fifty Books Challenge! This was a library request.



( Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into The Museum of Modern Art? )

As part of the Fifty Books Challenge I'm reading a bio of Charles Addams, one of the geniuses of illustration (you didn't need me to tell you that). It's reminding me of all my favorites from The New Yorker that aren't Addams, some of which I've scanned. Essential book? The New Yorker Album of Drawings: 1925 to 1975. I'm thinking of trying one panel illustration, something I've never done before with my cartoons. It's easy to commit to, right?

I think my favorite of the pre-Addams period John Held Jr. This cartoon wasn't in The New Yorker, it was actually from The Cinema Primer book, some pages of which are in one of my movie books from the 'fifties that chronicled the history of film.



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My own mother did not find the cartoon amusing when I printed it out and showed it to her. Everyone's a critic.

More of the Fifty Books Challenge! This was a library request.



( Witchcraft, The Craft, Aleister Crowley's Self Portrait )

More of the Fifty Books Challenge! This was a library request.



( A Pimp as Your Neighbor, Housewives with Attitude, Unexplained Creatures, Skulls in the Backyard, and More of Suburbia's Underpinnings... )