Review: I WILL JUDGE YOU BY YOUR BOOKSHELF by Grant Snider

 

Rating: 5/5 stars

This is a cute book of poems about the reader’s life and what it’s like to have a book addition, presented in the form of comic strips with entertaining drawings to accompany the text.

I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf is so very relatable to fellow book lovers like myself. Grant Snider talks about what it’s like to be surrounded by the temptation to buy more books, what it’s like to want to read rather than be social, and what it’s like to own more books than you’ll ever have time to get to. He talks about the highs and lows of reading, the evolution of a reader, the ways to organize your bookshelf, the dilemma with deciding to DNF a book you’re not loving,

I love that the artwork is so very clever, and it accompanies the poems so well. Plus this book is just plain funny. There are tons of puns and plays on words and panels where the words use one definition while the pictures use another definition for a smart and thoughtful outcome.

My favorite comic was "Adventures of the Ampersand." So cute and funny.

I absolutely recommend this short book to any book lovers out there. You will appreciate this collection immensely and relate to it on every page. At least I did.