Posts Tagged "graphic novels"

I recently read the graphic novel Black Hole by Charles Burns. It’s an awesome graphic novel that tells the story of a virus that turns teenagers into freak show style monsters. It’s an amazing graphic novel with all the complexity of a non-graphic novel but with incredibly rich and haunting illustrations. I highly recommend this book. Reading Amazon’s Omnivoracious blog I learned that photographer Max Oppenheim has gone ahead and created yearbook photos based upon the illustrations that appear on the endpapers of Black Hole. They are impressive and haunting. (Click on the Commissions link on Oppenheim’s site to see the photos.) I also learned that a Black Hole movie is in the works and that unfortunately it looks like Neil Gaiman will not...

A few weeks ago I was participating in an online chat with some fellow Elevensies, and the subject of book blurbs came up. I said something along the lines of never having read a book based on a blurb that appeared on the cover of the book. I now have to eat those words. The other day at the library I was randomly perusing the graphic novel section, when I pulled out a copy of Fun Home by Allison Bechdel and read the following blurb on the back cover: If David Sedaris could draw, and if Bleak House had been a little funnier, you’d have Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home. - Amy Bloom author of A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You Obviously the book went straight into my library bag. Amy Bloom’s blurb is spot on and this graphic novel memoir is a must...

For awhile now,  I’ve been trying to keep up with participating in a weekly group blog in which we all share what we’ve read over the past week. Well, being busy I missed last week’s blog, and then today turned out to be pretty busy as well. So, I am just now getting around to getting something posted. In light of this, I think instead of trying to post a weekly summary, going forward I’ll just try to highlight what I’ve been reading one book at a time. In the past two weeks I’ve read . . . two very different graphic novels: French Milk by Lucy Kinsley which is a sort of travelogue done as a graphic novel and (Tammy Pierce is) Unlovable by Esther Pearl Watson which was based on a teenager’s diary from the 1980s that was...

It’s group blog time once again, It’s Monday What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books. This week I finished up a mystery novel Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan; read a graphic novel, Squirrel Mother by Megan Kelso; finished listening to the audio of An Abundance of Katherines by John Green and read a modern allegory Carmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller. Bad Things Happen I can’t remember where I first read a review for this debut novel by Harry Dolan, but wherever it was I remember thinking that the book sounded good, and I added it to by to-read list. I’m glad I did. Main character David Loogan has a mysterious past, who in a roundabout way ends up working for the small mystery magazine...

It’s group blog time once again, but starting this week It’s Monday What Are You Reading? is being hosted by Sheila at One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books. This week I read the awesome Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. I also read The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon. At the moment I’m reading the very hard to put down Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan and An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. Beautiful Creatures This YA novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl is described as Southern Gothic. Take everything you love about To Kill a Mockingbird stick the characters in a modern high school, then throw in some dark supernatural elements and you get a pretty good feel for...