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Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice by John Layman My rating: 4 of 5 stars "You'd rather die than go to jail? Fine. But I'm still getting those names." You know how you hear about a "good" story and then dismiss it, only to discover that you should have listened and read it the first time someone mentioned it to you? That's Chew for me. The humor is bone-dry and the protagonist isn't prestented as physically strong or classicly handsome. He appears average in almost every way, which is, immediately, charming. He is described as "by-the-book", but his actions can be extremely rebellious at times. I like that he's not just any one thing. The art was amazingly and cartoonishly exaggerated and it was dead-on. The plot threw me. I expected a current-day story and got a current-day alternate history revolving around poultry. Not to mention the very specific, very awkward powers of the protagonists. I'm extremely interested in where thi...

Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie My rating: 3 of 5 stars "His small twinkly eyes seemed to say, “You expect me to be the buffoon? To play the comedy for you? Bien—it shall be as you wish!” I love the way Agatha Christie writes. I think it's going to be my new goal to read one of her books every couple of months until I've read them all. It's just very fun for me, I think. Poirot was absent from the majority of this book, but the characters were entertaining enough that when he interacted with them, it was very rewarding. Unfortunately, I guessed the culprit of this one early on, however , I would still probably read this again in the future because of the characters and atmosphere. I don't know of any other author I could do that with. I love her tiny worlds so much! View all my reviews