Via interlibrary loan, from the Meridian Library, I obtained and am enjoying reading a delightful 2020 book with comics by Grant Snider titled I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf. Grant is an artist with a day job as an orthodontist and he has a web site called Incidental Comics.
On September 19, 2024 I blogged about his 2022 book in a post titled A manifesto on what you should pay attention to – from a book on The Art of Living profusely illustrated with comic strips.
I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf has 14 sections where he confesses the following titles about books, reading, and writing on the indicated pages:
I’m in love with books [Page 6]
I read in social situations [Page 14]
I will use anything as a bookmark [Page 20]
I confuse fiction with reality [Page 26]
I am wanted for unpaid library fines [Page 34]
I steal books from my children [Page 40]
I like my realism with a little bit of magic [Page 48]
I like to sniff old books [Page 56]
I am searching for a miracle cure for writer’s block
[Page 64]
I care about punctuation – a lot [Page 72]
I will read the classics (someday) [Page 80]
I am writing The Great American Novel [Page 90]
I carry a notebook with me at all times [Page 102]
I write because I must [Page 112]
And he concludes: I hope you don’t mind me asking…can I borrow a few books?
Here are links to fifteen comics appearing in the book, as presented on web pages at his Incidental Comics site:
Other people’s bookshelves [page 12 and page 13]
The story coaster [page 27]
Story lines [page 31]
The writer’s block [page 32]
The cannon of literature [page 46 and 47]
The three Rays [page 52]
Story structures [page 55]
The book fair [page 63]
Poetic Justice [page 70]
Proofreader’s marks [page 73]
The ingredients of Shakespeare [page 81]
Day jobs of the poets [page 88]
Character development [page 96 and 97]
Strunk and White’s writer’s style guide {page 100 and 101]
Writing exercises [page 116 and 117]
My image was created from a Miss Muffet poster and bookshelf at Openclipart.
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