I was just saying the other day that I never find good graphic novels to read by myself. So today I was at the library and I decided I was damn well going to learn how to be independent and find a good graphic novel all on my own. Yeah, and review it here, so other people would know about it too. Mother Come Home is a graphic novel about a seven-year-old boy called Thomas Tennant who loses his mother, and how he and his father deal (or don’t deal) with the loss. I said in my review of The…
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A slim friendly book about elements that make children’s books appealing to kids. I read about it on Nymeth’s blog, and I of course had to go get it from the library straight away. I like reading books about books. Jerry Griswold mentions a number of things in books that appeal to little children – snugness (yessss!), scariness, smallness, lightness, and aliveness. I don’t think this is a comprehensive list, but I liked what he said about these five things. Especially the snug section – I loved reading about people who had found their own little places to go. There…
2 CommentsThis was a gift that I bought for someone’s birthday, and I read it before I gave it to my friend. I’m sorry! In my defense, I read it incredibly carefully. I mean just incredibly carefully, you have no idea, I practically had to poke my nose inside the book, because I was opening the covers only the littlest possible bit. Whatever, there is no excuse for me. This is fine when I do it with my friend tim, or my Indie Sister, or even my mother, because I know they are all doing the same thing with (at least…
5 CommentsThey finished their preparations for the night, took a small snack and decided it was safe to wander back into the Great Hall again to look at their Angel. “I wish I could hug her,” Claudia whispered. “They probably bugged her already. Maybe that light is part of the alarm. Better not touch. You’ll set it off.” “I said ‘hug,’ not ‘bug!’ Why would I want to bug her?” “That makes more sense than to hug her.” “Silly. Shows how much you know. When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.” Jamie shrugged his…
3 CommentsElaine Showalter told me about this book! ELAINE SHOWALTER. I mean, in the sense that I was suddenly struck by what a totally badass literary critic Elaine Showalter was, so I looked her up and discovered that she had written a book about academic novels, and I wrote down a few of them, and the one I wanted to read was Love and Friendship by Alison Lurie, I think because its title was so banal, and yet Elaine Showalter found it worthwhile to write about it. (What she wrote about it I have no idea. The (only?) downside to graduating…
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