pickA great graphic non-fiction about journalism. Totally worth reading!
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Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq | 
pickA great graphic non-fiction about journalism. Totally worth reading!
I was out off the research desk for 30 minutes and had a graphic novels haul for the weekend 📚 cannot wait to put my little one to bed 😴😬
so-soI liked this, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a pick. Interesting subject matter and it helped that I majored in journalism. Too easy to put down.
#nonfictiongraphicnovel #journalism
pickGreat behind the scene book about journalism and easily accessible information about the Middle East around 2010. I also really enjoyed the watercolors.
My reading spot today is a massive contrast to the content of this book.
pick4 ⭐️ This is a graphic travel memoir about the author's time in the Middle East (including Iraq and Syria). But it's actually about journalism as much as anything - how to do it ethically, questions of objectivity, marketability and more. It was very informative-she's great at giving contextualizing information to help you understand the conflicts of the countries that she's in. Not exactly a light or fast read, but I'm definitely glad I read it.
I'm focusing on catching up on my pull list for today's #readathon 😄 What are you reading?
#comics #rahrahreadathon @DeweysReadathon #TBRpile #goodmorning
picked up some books I've been waiting for at the library today 📚😀☕
What is (good) journalism? What do I expect from journalism? This graphic novel makes me think about those questions.
pickFascinating and informative. Well-written and beautifully drawn.
- I'm feeling very grumpy about this all of a sudden.
- About what?
- Politics.
"Now that's a story Americans could understand... smuggling your dog across the border because you love him so much."
... anything that is informative, verifiable, accountable and independent. And using those terms seems like a really great way of thinking about it. Because it's not a medium and it's not a result and it's not a voice. It's an expectation.
pickWhat is journalism? A cartoonist records the work of independent American reporters in Iraq and Syria. Glidden's watercolour art make individual people and settings personal. Refugees, politics, a travelling companion who's a US vet of the war in Iraq, the financial need to sell stories, the heartbreak of millions of displaced people - each with their own story - this book is full of important, interesting content. I recommend it.
"I always ask myself: is it better that this story is out there in the world than if it wasn't? If the answer is yes, then you do it. The way the reader uses that story to understand the world is up to them."
My Friday night.
@Bookworm83
Sarah Glidden has created a cartoon for The Nib that clearly and concisely explains the extreme vetting process that refugees already undergo (underwent, I guess), in case any Littens are curious: https://thenib.com/why-the-refugee-vetting-process-is-already-too-tough #ReadOutsideTheLines
You might also like: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/01/30/artists-are-using-...
pickFirst read of 2017. Here I am, passing this story along. It's relevance to the current political climate cannot be overstated. I read this for the #readharderchallenge as my book about war, as well as #litsyAtoZ for my letter R.
#seasonalreadingchallenge 5.2 Read a book set at least 50% in (a list of countries including) Turkey and Iraq.
Loving this book, but procrastinating as I set up my book tracking and challenges for the year. What are you guys participating in? I'm currently doing Litsy A to Z, Read Harder, and the Litsy Reading Challenge. Anything else I should know about?
pickThis book was informative, empathy enducing, and illicited unanswerable questions through the characters and the reader that are super valuable, while not being overly preachy.
#BestofNovember #photoadaynov16
Still riding the high of Ghost Girl in the Corner, but I'm tagging Rolling Blackouts because it was phenomenal also and it's available to be tagged right now...
Better quality graphic. I hope.
Great book.
pickThought-provoking true story of journalists working in Iraq and Syria, before the Arab Spring. The graphic memoir style helps (me) absorb the politics.
pickPowerful #graphicmemoir. I loved it for the ruminations on journalism, the conflict of whose story is ultimately heard and to what purpose it serves, and, of course, the mess America has made in the Middle East. That this chronicles a period between the focused American war effort in Iraq and the Arab Spring makes it all the more fascinating. Glidden's use of watercolor enhances the contemplative tone of the book. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 #nonfictionnovember
Oof, I may have ODed on horror this month. All I want to do on this, my favorite of holidays, is read down some of my library stack and recuperate.
How did I miss that Glidden's new #graphicnovel was due out this October (tomorrow!!)? Loved How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less...can't wait to see what she has in store for us now. #booktober #mostanticipatedreads
(shout out to Lynda Barry's Syllabus for already being -rightly- touted as an "iconic classic")
Picked this (and a few other titles) up at Word on the Street Toronto today. Looking forward to digging into them!
This seemed appropriate for today. Happy 4th of July to those who celebrate it!
Just getting started into this book but enjoying it so far. The beginning is an interesting outsiders perspective of journalism that I didn't expect but set the tone well for the rest of the book (or so I think. I'm about 60 pages in so far.)
