Door No. 21 *WIP Advent Calendar 2023*

Good morning and welcome back to WIP's Advent Calendar 2023! I hope you've had fun getting into the holiday spirit. I know I have!

It's December 21st, and the door reveals...

A book recommendation!

I'm a huge fan of Bill Watterson and his life's work, the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. When my significant other gave me The Complete Calvin and Hobbes for Christmas a few years back, I literally screamed of happiness. (I think I also jumped on the sofa.) Therefore, the book I recommend is

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson.

Technically, it's a set of three books (or at least that's the format I have), so there you go, three books for the recommendation of one. But anyway - it's wonderful, delightful, genius, innocent (yes), full of live and will to life... AND it has my all-time favorite line, one which I find myself quoting regularly (today included actually):

My only regret is blowing the best day of my life while I'm so young.

The only beef I have with Watterson is that he was on sabbatical when I was born, so there's no strip from that day.

But then I read the one where the duo creates an elaborate scheme to trick Susie into a water balloon ambush, and I forget I was ever mad with him.