I thought my original secret santa had forgotten me, but how wrong I was! On my birthday, a package arrived for me at the post office. I had to wait until the weekend top pick it up. When I did, an enormous box was waiting for me. Underneath the USPS markings were those from Poste Italiane! Suddenly, the delay made perfect sense and my secret santa gained god-like status for all the trouble he went through. When I opened the package, I was very confused. Codex Serafinianus?! I rushed to Wikipedia.

Written in the late 1970s by Luigi Serafini, the Codex Serafinianus is an amazing piece of art. It has hundreds of surreal illustrations and asemic writing in a mysterious alphabet meant "to convey ... the sensation that children feel in front of books they cannot yet understand." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Serafinianus) The fantastical drawings are vibrant and colorful. It's a lot of fun to look through the book.

In short, it's beautiful! Thank you so much, Secret Santa!