From Chris:

Howdy, Friend of the Library! I'm making a guide to Achewood story arcs for new readers. Please let me know which ones meant the most to you, and (this won't necessarily be the same thing) which ones you'd use to get a friend hooked. It takes about a minute. I'd really enjoy if you filled out all six, but who has time for that kind of thing these days. 

Thank you! Let's get a new generation of readers into this arcane little universe.

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According to Chris he posted the first Achewood strip at 2am on 9/11/01 then pulled it down and reposted it on 10/1 as a do-over.

It feels like it was both much longer ago but also not nearly that long ago.

Now that I'm done with Dortmunder I might dip into his other works.

Easily the best book I've read in the past several years is Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki. A trans violin prodigy, faustian bargains, aliens, and doughnuts.

For light reading I just went through all of the Dortmunder books from the library. He's kind of a sad-sack and all his heists go wrong. In the early books the characters age but at some point in 70s he just froze them and let the world change around them. They're great to read after something heavier.

I read the first 2 of the Japanese weird house books. I don't normally read murder mysteries but they were pretty good. I'll get the 3rd from the library at some point.

Based on a recommendation from Daniel O'Brien (remember him from Cracked when it was good?) I read The Getaway which is a crime novel from like the 50s. It was fine enough for most of it but ho boy the ending is something else. It turns into a completely different book.

Like a lot of people I got sucked into Dungeon Crawler Carl. You either tear through them or hate them.

The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown has a neat concept.

Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story is a great graphic novel memoir

Ryan North's comics continue to delight.

I gave The Dog Knight as a gift but haven't read it myself yet. But I've heard lots of good thing.

I know, right?

There was even a time where he was going to be away so made up for it by posting extra

Seems like it. It even got me back posting again

I'm seeing "add poll" as a link instead of a button now. The spacing is vaguely different in a hard to pin-down way. The "Author" and who's viewing list at the top seems new.