Books I’ve read
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Sounds Like Me
By Sara Bareilles
208 pages / 3 hours 52 minutes
10/10 | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸The audiobook lets you hear Sara narrate her life in the sound of her fantastic voice. Each chapter is named after a song and starts with an a cappella rendition for about 30 seconds. Read my review & notes
Anything You Want
By Derek Sivers
96 pages
10/10 | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸This book is full of models, tips, advice and novel approaches for creative work. It's incredible. An absolute 10/10 that comes highly recommended. I will be gifting it. Read my review & notes
Lying
By Sam Harris
108 pages
9.5/10 | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸This book is about not lying and living a more honest life. It is full of advice and real-world examples on how to do that. Read my review & notes
Marvels
By Kurt Busiek & Alex Ross
193 pages
9.5/10 | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸This book features superheroes but it's not about them. It's an original, one-of-a-kind that I can recommend if you've even mildly enjoyed a Marvel movie. Read my review & notes
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
By Neil Gaiman
255 pages / 5 hours 48 minutes
9.5/10 | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸I've always wanted to read The Sandman, but never connected with the art. This semi-autobiographical novel is Neil Gaiman's attempt to "dial-down" on the fantasy part of his writing. Read my review & notes
Palookaville #23
By Seth
144 pages
9.5/10 | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸One of the perks of living in Montreal is that I got to delve into comics by local publisher Drawn and Quarterly. Read my review & notes
They called us enemy
By George Takei, Justin Eisinger, et al.
208 pages
9.5/10 | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸After the Pearl Harbor attack, many Japanese-Americans in the US were forced out of their homes by the government and put in military camps. Read my review & notes
Outliers
By Malcolm Gladwell
320 pages / 7 hours
9/10 | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸My first Malcom Gladwell book, comes heavily recommended. In the age of Instagram, it's easy to feel that our lives aren't as great as others. This book examines many societal phenomena associated with "success." Read my review & notes
The Devil Inside and Out
By Ed Brubaker, Michael Lark, et al.
304 pages
9/10 | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸Matt Murdoch ends up in prison. This fact alone is as enjoyable you might think, but that's not all. He has to grapple with a lot of issues of moral and faith which makes this comic as thoughtful as it is enjoyable. Read my review & notes
Saga
By Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
176 pages
9/10 | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸I had heard of Saga and Brian K. Vaughan before, and was intrigued by the hype. I had put it off after because all the reviews were about parenting and the similarities with Romeo & Juliet. Read my review & notes
Superman: Red Son
By Mark Millar, Dave Johnson, et al.
168 pages
9/10 | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸DC's universe, flipped. What if Superman were raised in Ukraine and Batman an enemy of the soviet state? This mini-series deals with themes of personality, tolerance, and nature against nurture. The art is beautiful and clean, the splashes memorable. Read my review & notes
Monstress
By Marjorie M. Liu & Sana Takeda
202 pages
8/10 | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸5 Eisner awards for 2018, two years after the first publication. That must say something, right? It's a dark, bloody story of a quest happening in a realm of demons, dark magic and war. The universe is of the huge, epic-fantasy kind. Read my review & notes
Thoreau at Walden
By John Porcellino
112 pages
8/10 | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸A representation of Henri David Thoreau writing Walden in a graphic novel. Read my review & notes
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
By Cal Newport
304 pages
7/10 | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸Provides a great framework to think about your career. The premise is that blindly following your passion without acquiring "career capital" first is a bad idea. Read my review & notes
