graphic novels
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Summer Book Club Week 10: Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Guidelines for the Summer Book Club: if you’ve read this book, what did you think? If not, what are you reading this week? Please comment, or post on your own blog and link in the comments below. I am by nature a worrier, and one of the things I worry about is what will happen Continue reading
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Summer Book Club Week 9: Asterios Polyp
This week’s Book Club post is a quick one, as I am recovering from minor surgery and would rather be reading than writing. Last week, commenter Kathleen recommended the graphic novel Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli; I immediately grabbed it from the shelf of my local library and read it in an afternoon. I have a feeling Continue reading
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Summer Book Club Week 8: The Saga Series, Vol. 1
Guidelines for the Summer Book Club: if you’ve read this book, what did you think? If not, what are you reading this week? Please comment, or post on your own blog and link in the comments below. Brian K. Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man is my favourite graphic novel series; in 2010, one of the installments made my Continue reading
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Summer Book Club Week 1: Rutu Modan’s The Property
Guidelines for the Summer Book Club: if you’ve read this book, what did you think? If not, what are you reading this week? Please comment, or post on your own blog and link in the comments below. I recently finished The Property, the latest book by Rutu Modan, the graphic novelist responsible for one of my Continue reading
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My Top 10 Books of 2012
It’s time again for the list of books that I enjoyed most this year. As always, only some of these books were published in 2012, but they were all a part of my 2012 experience. 1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Each of my top 5 could easily have been #1. In the end, I Continue reading
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My Top 10 Books of 2010
I encourage you all to make your own lists, either in the comments below or on your own blog (please post the link in the comments) because of course I don’t already have enough unread books in my house. Note: These books were not necessarily published in 2010, but they were part of my 2010 Continue reading
a visit from the goon squad, amy ignatow, books, brian k vaughan, cathleen schine, david nicholls, graphic novels, jeannette walls, jennifer egan, jonathan franzen, literature, memoirs, ms hempel chronicles, novels, personal, reading, sarah shun-lien bynum, society, tana french, the glass castle, the imperfectionists, the likeness, the popularity papers, the three weissmanns of westport, tom rachman, y the last man, young adult fiction
About Me
My job is to teach people to read and write; aside from that, I like to learn things.
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