Jessie 2.0

I bought the coolest book ever yesterday.  Really.  I mean it.  The ... coolest ... book ... EVER.

Personal Effects: Dark Art by J.C. Hutchins and Jordan Weisman is a supernatural thriller about, Zach Taylor, an art therapist for Brinkvale Psychiatric Hospital and his investigation into the life of Martin Grace, a patient at Brinkvale.

This books would be good on it's own, but what makes it amazing is what it comes with:

These are all the personal effects of Martin Grace in real life on my dinning room table.  There are pictures, a credit card, state id, business cards, birth certificates, letters ... all sorts of little tid bits to pull you into the story.  And that's not all!!  The story extends far beyond what is contained in the book.  You can vist the Brinkvale website and see pieces of art that Zach's other patients have created.  Zach's girlfriend, Rachel Webster, is a video game blogger and has been actually blogging and participating in the internet world since early 2008.

J.C. Hutchins is also a podcaster I've been listening to for quite some time (and whom I've written about before) and there's something rather intimate about having someone in your head for years telling you stories and sharing their life with you.  Couple that with some limited contact via email and twitter and there's a bizarre sort of friendship formed - so I felt like a proud mama when I was walked into my local Borders to buy this book and just I couldn't wait to show it off to everyone I know.

I highly recommend this book and I'm going to post some videos of other people talking about how awesome it is, in case you need some convincing!