One Weird Trick (Sex Criminals Volume 1)

When Mark and I visited Arizona over the holiday break, we hung out with his friend Jordan, who works at a comic book store in Tempe. He recommended this smart, fresh, graphic novel to me. One Weird Trick is about a young woman who wants to save her library from foreclosure, her unusual superpower, and her sexcapades with a likeminded young man she meets at a party. A fun and flirty caper with nice illustrations, this is my bookclub's February pick (along with The Picture of Dorian Gray), if anyone wants to read along!

The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History - Katherine Ashenburg

The Dirt on Clean is a delightful account of hygiene throughout history, from the sumptuous baths and strigil of the Romans, to the hydrophobia of the Dark Ages, to today's neurotic obsession with sterility, and everything in between. The course of humanity's love/hate relationship with cleanliness is surprising, fascinating, and sometimes repellent. Packed with diverting factoids, quotes, and anecdotes, this book makes for very pleasurable light reading.

Lauren's Bookclub 2016 Plan

Hello all -

My bookclub met tonight and we set our reading plan for 2016. I'm sharing it here, in case anyone would like to read along with us, and we can discuss!

DATE	BOOK
Sunday, JAN 31, 4pm	Heap House (Edward Carey)
Saturday, FEB 27, 7pm	The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) + Sex Criminals – Volume One – One Weird Trick (Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky)
Saturday, APR 2, 7pm (“MAR”)	Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (Richard White)
Sunday APR 24, 6pm	Red Rising (Pierce Brown)
Saturday, MAY 28, 7pm	Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Jon Krakauer)
Saturday, JUNE 25, 7pm	Radiance: A Novel (Catherynne M. Valente)
Saturday, JULY 30, 7pm	The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Timothy Egan)
Saturday, AUG 27, 7pm	Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir (Ellen Forney) + Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama (Alison Bechdel)
SEPT 24 or 25, TBD	A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller Jr.) *previously reviewed by Colin, here.
Friday, OCT 21, 7pm	Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death (Susan D. Moeller)
Saturday, NOV 19, 7pm	The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Stephen Greenblatt)
Saturday, DEC 17, 7pm	Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition (Oliver Sacks)

- Lauren