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Finished this afternoon. Incredibly sad. #2020joybooks
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I was listening to an old podcast on my walk and heard this author speak about the circumstances that led to this graphic book. I asked my partner, collector of information and lover of graphic books. Of course she knew everything about the book but didn‘t have it. However remembered she had seen in on sale shelf of local bookshop. $10 later it was mine. 😊.

😭 A poignant graphic memoir of loss and trying to find your way out to the other side, whatever that looks like. It had to cost so much emotionally to publish this story. I hope it brings a bit of healing to other grieving souls.

Book 18 1/17/20

I thought that the story was definitely important. This was about losing a child and the struggle to move on after this happens. I just found the writing to be hard to relate to fully and was hoping it would be easier to stay interested in. Overall it was good - just not one of my favorite graphic novels.

#MarchIntoOz Day 7: I am thinking that the death of one‘s baby will constitute a #Scar that shall never ever heal. One can only hope to purge it through moving graphic memoirs such as this one.

This book is beautiful and haunting and incredibly brave. Tom Hart writes about losing his daughter before she was two, a stunning book. Second book down in #24in48

Switching it to graphic novels/comics for a bit #24in48

Started this book last night. Challenging myself to read a graphic novel every once in a while.

Tom Hart smashes mountains in his graphic memoir about the sudden death of his almost 2 year old daughter and the overwhelming grief he and his wife are left to navigate. This book is haunting and beautiful, and absolutely and completely devestating. "'Your daughter's name was Rosalie! I just remembered! Her name was ROSALIE!!' Yes."

A graphic memoir about the loss of a child, it is every bit as raw and emotional as you would think. But the art captures the feelings that come along with that grief - the stark, messy, bleak, shadowed, roller coaster that is loss. It is a sad, loving tribute, heartbreak turned to art. I felt this in my very soul.

A heartbreaking and painfully honest graphic memoir about the death of his daughter. Tom Hart cuts himself open and bleeds on the page. A book I struggled to read as it hit very, very close to home. Important and powerful and highly recommended.

I will not be taking this in to work for dinner break reading out of fear of sobbing in the staff lounge.

Rosalie Lightning is on many a best-of-the-year list, and I'm sure it will go on to find a permanent place in the best-of-the-genre list alongside fellow graphic memoir March. Its pages dig into the very real, very ugly emotions and recursive thoughts that follow senseless tragedy. It's a must-read, genius in how well the images & metaphors of its ceaseless depression capture the experience of grief.

I may have almost cried at the end of this. I cannot imagine the death of a child and then sharing it like this.

Forgot to post this earlier! On Friday after dropping off the kindergartener at school at 1130 and before picking up the preschooler at 12, I sped to the library to quickly browse the comics shelves and managed to grab these comics and graphic novels. I love that the preschool is across the road from the library! What comics are you reading these days?

Well this just broke my heart into a million pieces. I'm calling this one of my favorite books of the year.

Here's my current bedtime reading pick: Rosalie Lightning is a graphic memoir about a father losing his daughter. Heartbreaking but beautiful.

Devastating graphic memoir about the unexplained death of a toddler.

It's not that I'm chasing down books about grief, but I guess I am still trying to learn about loss and how to find meaning in life thereafter.

Just started this one and it's breaking my heart!

I was so not prepared for this #24in48 book. Oh, my heart.

Roughly halfway through...taking a break to sob.

Graphic novel. One of the most difficult books I've ever read. The despair is even more visible in graphic format I think.. Hoe does one EVER cope with the loss of a child?? This is such a heart breaking book. Cried my way through it.

Such a sad and poignant graphic novel

Yes. Just, yes.

Ok, I made it 36 pages before wanting to cry. #RosalieLightning #allthefeels "That shirt was later split apart and discarded on the emergency room floor..."

An incredibly brave and honest depiction of grief that left me breathless. Tom Hart's graphic memoir about the sudden death of his tiny daughter is an amazing journey through love and loss without final resolution, because so often there is none.

blurbed by Scott McCloud and John Darnielle. I'm ready to feel all the things.

Hart's daughter died unexpectedly before her 2nd birthday. This brave, honest, and incredibly touching graphic memoir pays tribute to Rosalie's life, explores childhood innocence, and chronicles the grief & healing he and his wife faced together.