Animal Lecteur #3

Any devoted reader will recognize themselves in this cover: a curly-haired, bespectacled bookworm propped up in bed at 2:51 a.m., still absorbed in a book while a sleeping partner lies beside them — and a tower of unread volumes stacked precariously high on the nightstand serves as a gentle, hilarious rebuke to the subtitle On Peut Pas Tout Lire! ("You Can't Read Everything!"). Sergio Salma and Libon capture the tragicomic plight of the compulsive reader with real warmth and wit in this 2012 Dupuis volume. It's a love letter to books and the people who can never quite put them down.