what if we reviewed books like makeup

*holds Atlas Shrugged to the camera* 

*wags finger* 

hands down the best review I have ever seen on goodreads

Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger

“This is such a good book that grownups will steal it from you. (It happened to me.)” — Addison, age 9

REVIEW | THE SYMPOSIUM

This is a thing by Plato.

Genre: classics/philosophy Setting: Athens, a fucking long time ago # of Pages: 113 Rating: 5/5

The skinny: This is the gayest thing I’ve ever read in my life.

The fat: A hot tragic poet throws a party and the attendant guests take turns waxing poetic about Love until Socrates ruins the mood with too much philosophy. Fortunately Alcibiades arrives just in time, already wasted and wearing a flower crown, to demand that everyone get on his level while he regales them with a long story about getting friendzoned by Socrates.

”This book gave me nightmares! Nightmares that every book I read will be as BORING as this one.”

“much of the things that they mention, rabbits cannot physically do”

#FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

“Praise For This Book” by Oliver Bendorf.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, three stars

The Joy of Reading 

I had the great honor of illustrating the cover of the special Sex Issue of the NY Times Book Review! Thanks to art director Nicholas Blechman for the assignment. It’s full of thoughtful and hilarious pieces on writing about sex - one of the stickier topics to tackle in literature. The issue also features an autobiographical comic by Alison Bechdel (one of my favorite cartoonists) and gorgeous spot illustrations by Luci Gutierrez (one of my new favorite illustrators). 

I’ve turned my cover illustration and a couple of my unused sketches into a series of posters titled The Joy of Reading. I’ll post the other drawings this week.