That whole Franzen/Picoult/Wiener ?boys get all the attention? kerfuffle, made me acutely aware that my To Read pile was leaning disturbingly masculine. While I haven?t quite sorted out my feelings about the dust up, I…
Posts tagged graphic novel
A step down from Scott Pilgrim
Once I chewed through every Scott Pilgrim book currently available, I felt a little bereft. What was I going to do? I couldn’t just jump into another graphic novel. What if it wasn’t funny enough?…
Not a swallower
It’s never a good sign when it takes you months and months to read a book. It’s an even worse sign when that book is a graphic novel. But it took me roughly three months…
Scott Pilgrim, I will always love you
I was so excited to read Scott Pilgirm’s Finest Hour, the sixth and final volume in the series, that even though I had ordered it for ridiculously cheap, the moment I got near Big Brain…
Bureaucracy is a bore
I wanted to read American Widow by Alissa Torres ever since I spied it on Largehearted Boy’s list of favorite graphic novels of 2008. When it arrived in a big box of books David sent…
Anxiously awaiting July 20th
The last time we visited our favorite Canadian Hipster doofus, he was getting in deep with Ramona Flowers, she of the seven evil exes. So deep that the couple has shacked up. What? Our favorite…