Several blogs have mentioned it already, but this particular Get Fuzzy comic cracks me up huge.

On the book awards front, The Story Prize has announced its finalists:

Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker
Cathy Day's The Circus in Winter
Joan Silber's Ideas of Heaven (which was also a National Book Award nominee)

Nick Hornby has a new book coming out. It sounds like he wrote it for me personally. Actually, he wrote it for a magazine called The Believer - as a series of articles he published under the title Stuff I've Been Reading. It will hit shelves later this week.

After nine days, I finally finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. I love, love, loved this book. It's so Dickensian (though in a good way, not an annoying way) and manages to get in some good references to the poetry of the Romantic period (i.e. Byron, Shelley). In fact, Byron is a character in the book. I've always been a huge fan of British lit, so this novel really gave me something to sink my teeth into.

Now, I'm on to National Book Award winner for Fiction winner The News from Paraguay, by Lily Tuck. I'm not terribly far into it yet, but I'm certainly liking it so far.