As you can see I am catching up on my misspent childhood where I did nothing but read history textbooks and high brow literature.
I have only just recently discovered how awesome comics are. I know its quite late to be discovering this, but I am making up for lost time. At the moment I am reading:
- ‘Ronin‘ by Frank Miller
- Daredevil #1 to #37
- Batman (The 60′s camp version…)
- By Hook or by Crook by David Crystal
There are a few other graphic novels waiting in the wings that need my attention – namely ‘The Watchmen’, ‘V for Vendetta’ and ‘From Hell’ - but I’ll get to those later…
The more respectable book in the pile is ‘By Hook or by Crook’ by David Crystal which is a book on linguistics (focusing on the British Isles). I have always found linguistics fascinating ever since studying it at uni for a semester (not nearly long enough, but it was all they were offering with my degree…). He writes with such whimsical nature that you wander from topic to topic barely noticing the meandering nature of the book.
