All the blue on the furthest left part of the shelf are the little Smurfs collections Papercutz was releasing for a while...and maybe they still are...? I was enjoying them, and buying each new one when it came out, but I lost track of them at some point and am now far enough behind that I've kinda given up on them, unsure about whether I'll be able to figure out exactly where I left off and if I'll be able to catch up again.
Among these AdHouse books are American Barbarian (2012), which I believe was the first Tom Scioli book I had ever actually read, despite having seen him and his comics around at conventions in Columbus in the past, and a pair of early Katie Skelly books, Nurse Nurse (2012) and Operation Margerine (2014).
As for the books laying on their backs, so that you can't see their spines, the stack to the right consists of my Bible, Steve Murphy and Michael Zulli's Puma Blues: The Complete Saga in One Volume (Dover Publications, 2015) and Batman: No Man's Land Omnibus Vol. 1 (DC Comics; 2022). I have yet to completely read any of these all the way through (I attempted the Bible a couple time in my life, but always get stuck around Leveticus).
The smaller stack to the left consists of two prose books: Paul Hawkins' Bad Santas and Other Creepy Christmas Characters (Simon & Schuster; 2013) and Al Ridenour's The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil (Feral House; 2016). I have many fewer prose books than I do graphic novels, and so they tend to just be placed wherever I have open space, although I do try to keep them grouped together by subject.
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You don't need to read the Bible in chronological order. The Gospels are actually a good starting point. Or Job, if you want to start with technically the first book actually written.
Oh, I know. I've read the Gospels the most (usually Matthew), as I know that's the "important" part, at least from the Christian perspective. A couple of times in the past I have had the thought that it might be interesting to attempt reading it like a regular book, cover to cover, rather than a collection of books, but never actually managed to do so.
(I went to a Catholic college, and in one class we did--or were supposed to--read pretty much the whole bible, a book or couple of books at a time--but, like a lot of the assigned reading I had back then, I didn't actually faithfully do it all. I don't think we went in order for that either, but jumped around...I wouldn't be surprised if the professor skipped some of the Old Testament, or just summarized it for us...)
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