*drools a bit*

Okay, the Prada suit with the open neck? Totally makes up for Javier Bardem's bowl cut in No Country for Old Men.

Just sayin'.

( My take on the SOTU: )

Pimping graphic novels

I raved about Y: The Last Man to The Biochemist, and she's reading volume one now. Her comment: I'm confused about the stupidity of the Amazons. I mean, if there's only one man left and you CAN'T REPRODUCE WITHOUT HIM, why try to kill him? Yeah, I thought that was stupid but a commentary on the blindness or intransigence of a group based on their political perspective without acknowledging practicality. Plus, it reminded me of Children of Men and the disintegration of a society within sight of its own end.

And I picked up a copy of Pride of Baghdad yesterday. My local library had it listed as juvenile fiction, but it didn't seem particularly juvenile to me. Am I missing something? Or maybe just immature?

Rough Canvas by Joey W. Hill

Why this book? sarahf recommended it when I lamented the fact that I had no erotic romance on my AAR ballot.

ETA: I thought I included this - it was in my draft - but it seems to have disappeared. I read Hill's Natural Law and loved it. Holding the Cards was a B for me; Mistress of Redemption was DNF in an "It's Not You, It's Me" kind of way. Hill's NY pubbed trade paperback release The Vampire Queen's Servant is on my TBR pile; when I skimmed the first few pages back upon its first release, it didn't grab me, so I set it aside. /end ETA

What do I think of the cover art? Well, the art itself would not have induced me to buy the book.

( Cover art, excerpt link and review/opinion behind the cut. )