Recommended Reading for Thursday, Or, Really, For Whenever, For Why Should I Tell You When To Read Books That Are Already Five Years Old Anyway?:

"The Octopi and the Ocean", by Dan James.

Preview it right here. Here's also Dan James' website Ghostshrimp, which shows much newer work, and is fraught with loudly quiet pictures, sadly happy emotions, and lots of vague and mysterious humor. In other words, finery.