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I agree that Adventure Time is supremely awesome. As far as books, my two favorite reads this year were The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (it won the Pulitzer for fiction this year) and the other book was a collection of short stories by Ben Loory named Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (This American Life featured him reading the story Death and Fruits of the Tree on episode #527: 180 Degrees) which blew my mind so i had to read the entire collection. On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Chad Nelson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > The best novel I read this year was _Americanah_ by Chimamanda Ngozi > Adichie - http://chimamanda.com/books/americanah/ . It is a tender and > personal but exquisitely sharp examination of race, identity, and > immigration. > > The best comic I read this year was _Daytripper_ by Fábio Moon and Gabriel > Bá. http://www.vertigocomics.com/graphic-novels/daytripper . It's a few > years old but it was new to me and absolutely blew me away. I'd call it a > "quiet existential roller coaster", if pressed for a quote. > > Chad > > > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Andromeda Yelton < > [log in to unmask] > > wrote: > > > Hey, code4lib! I bet you consume fascinating media. What good books did > you > > read in 2014 that you think your colleagues would like, too? (And hey, > > we're all digital, so feel free to include movies and video games and so > > forth.) > > > > Mine: > > http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/ (O'Reilly book, plus read free > online) > > - > > a book on testing from a Django-centric, front end perspective. > *Finally* I > > get how testing works. This book rewrote my brain. > > > > _The Warmth of Other Suns_ - finally got around to reading this magnum > opus > > history of the Great Migration, am halfway through, it's amazing. If > you're > > looking for some historical context on how we got to Ferguson, Isabel > > Wilkerson has you covered. > > > > _Her_ - Imma let you finish, Citzenfour and Big Hero 6 and LEGO movie and > > Guardians of the Galaxy - you were all good - but I walked out of the > > theater and literally couldn't speak after this one. Plus, funniest > > throwaway scene ever. Almost fell out of my chair. > > > > _Tim's Vermeer_ - wait, no, watch that one too. Weird tinkering genius > who > > can't paint obsesses over recreating a Vermeer with startling, > > physics-driven results. Also, Penn Jillette. > > > > -- > > Andromeda Yelton > > Board of Directors, Library & Information Technology Association: > > http://www.lita.org > > Advisor, Ada Initiative: http://adainitiative.org > > http://andromedayelton.com > > @ThatAndromeda <http://twitter.com/ThatAndromeda> > > >