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Park Bench
Park Bench | Christophe Chabouté
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With his masterful illustration style, bestselling French creator-storyteller Chabouté (Alone, Moby-Dick) explores community through a common, often ignored object: the park bench. From its creation, to its witness to the fresh ardor of lovers, the drudgery of businessmen, the various hopes of the many who enter its orbit, the park bench weathers all seasons. Strangers meet at it for the first time. Paramours carve their initials into it. Old friends sit and chat upon it for hours. Others ignore the bench, or (attempt to) sleep on it at night, or simply anchor themselves on it and absorb the ebb and flow of the area and its people. Christophe Chabouté’s mastery of the visual medium turns this simple object into a thought-provoking and gorgeously wrought meditation on time, desire, and the life of communities all across the planet. This could be a bench in my hometown or yours—the people in this little drama are very much those we already recognize.
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JacintaMCarter
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#2019Book35
This graphic novel reads like an incredibly sweet Pixar short. Told entirely through pictures, it tells the story of a park bench that experiences pretty much the same events day after day, a silent observer. Despite the lack of dialogue or narration, the various story lines are easy to follow and more than one is a little heartbreaking.

Jennick2004 Ooh 💜 5y
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ladyneverwhere
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And with the tagged book I've finally, actually, really completed a reading challenge for the first time. Note to self for 2019: Don't procrastinate on the graphic novels, they will sneak up on you and be hard to find at the library 😂

#readharder

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Lindy
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Goodreads 5-star reads in June (from the top, left to right): Order of Time (audio); Half a Yellow Sun (audio); Wife‘s Tale; Funeral; Good Night, Planet; Big Book of Knitted Mittens; Park Bench; Mean; Crawl Space; Only Human (audio); Girls Burn Brighter (audio); Motherhood. What a great month!

Suet624 Great month of reading! 6y
Lindy @Suet624 Yes, it was. 😠6y
Nute Wow! 6y
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Lindy
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Crisp black-and-white art uses a physical object—a park bench—to anchor a story of urban life as it‘s lived in public and across decades. Warm, funny, poignant, nearly wordless and absolutely awesome. #translation #graphicnovel

LitsyGetsGraphic Love that one 💗 glad you enjoyed it â¤ï¸ 6y
WanderingBookaneer I loved this one! 6y
Lindy @LitsyGetsGraphic @WanderingBookaneer Isn‘t it great? I‘ve just passed it along to a friend. I can think of so many readers who would enjoy this. 6y
LitsyGetsGraphic @Lindy did you read Alone? It‘s SO great!!! 6y
Lindy @LitsyGetsGraphic No, this is my first by Chabouté. I will look for more. My public library has 6y
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Lindy
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Recurring characters in this graphic novel include an elderly couple who regularly split one bakery dessert between them. â¤ï¸

Tanisha_A Aw! I love this Illustration! 6y
Lindy @Tanisha_A ðŸ‘😊 6y
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Lindy
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I had heard that this was a wordless graphic novel, so it seemed weird that it had to be translated from French before being published in North America. Now I understand. Graffiti, book titles, newspaper headlines & even tshirt slogans are part of the story, even if they only play a minor part. The page above might be wordiest in the whole book.

BethFishReads Isn‘t it great ?! 6y
Lindy @BethFishReads Yes, I love it and I keep rereading it. 😠6y
BethFishReads I did too. There‘s a lot to see and different ppl to follow 6y
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rebeccavoy
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2018 // 012 | Park Bench - Christophe Chabouté | 2012 | 336pp

This entire graphic novel, all 336 pages of it, is about a park bench. There is no plot, no dialogue, just the bench. And it was delightful! It showed the ways, big and small, that this unassuming park bench affected the lives of a great many people. It‘s simple but hugely effective. Big thumbs up.

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Flaneurette
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New book haul! Now to stop shopping and start reading. I think I'm going to start with Roz Chast. #bitmoji

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LukkiAnn
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What is a park bench? A respite, a moment, a pause, a shelter, a refuge, a scene, a society or it is just a little wood and steel?
It is no words graphic novel, very quick read, put as always Chaboute makes sure to covey a powerful message through a short graphic story.
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BethFishReads
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Loved this black-and-white graphic novel of life as seen by a park bench. No words, but a story nonetheless. @simonbooks

Bette Lovely pic. 😊â¤ï¸ðŸ‘ 7y
DebinHawaii Such a pretty photo! 🌸 7y
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WanderingBookaneer
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Who knew that a wordless graphic novel about a park bench was going to break my heart and, almost immediately, uplift it. â­ï¸â­ï¸â­ï¸â­ï¸â­ï¸

shawnmooney I am intrigued! 7y
Lizpixie I saw this one on booktube, I think it was Jen Campbell's channel. It definitely intrigued me. 7y
monkeygirlsmama I requested this the other day on NetGalley, but I'm still in limbo waiting to see if they approve me. 7y
NeeSwee I heart this book SO MUCH. 7y
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NeeSwee
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A 300 page wordless graphic novel about a park bench sounds like it could totally be a snore. But, this was wonderful! You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll never look at a park bench the same way again.

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