Sometime ago, I predicted that with the advent and progression of digital reading, more art books would come to the fore leaving people who loved books with their love of stories intact and satiated digitally. Thus, without the need to pile cheap paperbacks with no actual artistic value beyond the story itself sky high in their libraries, the literary world would become not only a better place to be, but a nicer thing to look at as well. Since I said that, I have also come to realise that digital reading is much closer to the ancient traditions of storytelling and audio books, even more so - but that's a whole other blog post. I didn't see myself becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy but here I am. I do indeed have less fiction titles around the house but now, I also have some monstrous tomes in my life. By the very nature of what I do in the day, I have quite a lot of titles from Edition Reuss. Their books are second to none production wise and if you ever wanted to know how to publish a book to impress, just get a hold of one and you'll see what I mean.

Anyway, while hunting down some items for some friends for Christmas, I stumbled across the Kiss Kompendium. It looked pretty big and I figured an official collection of every Kiss comic might be a neat curio to have around the house. I thought it would be a solid book. I didn't however expect it blow my face off. It's twice the size of any of the Edition Reuss books, which is a feat in itself. It has well over 1000 quality pages and to be honest, for £30 (here's the amazon link) is more than great value for money.

I should have known better - hand on heart, this is the best slice of Kiss I've laid my hands on in an incredibly long time. How it made it past my Kiss radar, I'll never know - it's been out for a while.

Talking of Kiss - which I seem to be doing a lot lately - here's a great news story for you.

Eleanor flies to Shanghai tomorrow morning for a week, so the rest of the day will be full of packing stuff and hunting down things that are probably still unpacked from the house move. This leaves me with a week left to my own devices. I plan on the first couple of days being about 23 hours long in full on work mode. It's time to let a couple of cats out of the bag.

Finally, no blog post is surely complete without some video footage of a rhino being airlifted to safety from poachers...