I'm getting closer and closer to seeing my first book published, which is really the realization of a fantasy I've had since I was a little itty bitty bookworm. At the same time, I'm in the midst of one of those uncanny, serendipitous spates that can occur as a reader when every book you buy or randomly discover is just amazing. So for these reasons and in the spirit of celebrating and appreciating the written word, I decided to start a gallery here of the books I've recently read or am reading now (to be found to your right). Jeff Vandermeer's trilogy, of which this book Acceptance is a part, not only has the best designed covers of 2014 but are among the weirdest, most provocative things I've ever read: a sci-fi/natural history genre mash up.