Casey helped me read a comic from my Litsy stack before bed last night. I‘m gonna have to seek out Rutu Modan‘s short comics now, because this was very well done. I also really appreciated the interview at the end for the insight it gave me into the Israeli comics scene.
pickI loved this just as much upon rereading as I did 15 years ago when the English translation (from Hebrew by Noah Stollman) first came out. It‘s been so long that I didn‘t even remember what happened… That‘s a bonus! Because it‘s a pageturner with surprises, about ordinary people in Tel Aviv. Nuanced character development, all the feels, & absolutely gorgeous clear-line artwork, similar to the style in Tintin comics.
If she hadn‘t died at fifty, she might have lived to be a hundred.
pickIt's between a pick and a so-so because the actual story - missing father, father-son issues - is not really resolved. The ending was rushed and odd. Still, I enjoyed reading it.
pickKoby is a cab driver in Tel-Aviv. Life is predictable until he gets a call to pick up a young female soldier. He soon finds out she believes his estranged father (her lover) was killed in a recent bombing and wants his help to identify him. This begins an unlikely friendship and a journey to discover the truth about the man they both can‘t let go.
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88 of 100 #crossculturalstories read
so-so#MarchMadness I wasn't able to get a copy of March so I substituted the graphic novel Exit Wounds for March. This is the3rd or 4th GN I tried, the media just isn't for me. This story follows Kobi, a young man who's estranged from his father when he gets word that his dad may have been involved in a terrorist attack. Kobi attempts to trace his father's whereabouts and in the process discovers more than he imagined. #SetonHall
Mini library #bookhaul In preparation for #MarchMadness I need to make a few replacements because several teams I've chosen, I've already read the accompanying novel. Hope that's ok @JenP 🙃🙄Have Ya'll filled out your brackets?!?
pickI found so much to identify with in both their stores, both as a woman and as a fatherless child--but regardless of personal experience, Modan's characters are always infinitely human, vulnerable, flawed and relatable. They inhabit a reality that can be just as messy, and with the same chance for eerily fateful poetry, as our own.
One of my first graphic novels...SO AMAZING 😍
I would like to have read more books this month but vacation. My family tends to vacation hard--driving, sightseeing, walking, hiking, early bed, early mornings. As a result, I tend to be too distracted and never get much reading done away from home.
so-soI really liked the setting and some of the character work here, but the art didn't click with me like I hoped it would. I think it's the opposite of my issue with Adrian Tomine! So maybe I'm just picky. But the narrative is really good and I definitely think it's worth your time to check out and see if it resonates. And it's always a pleasure to read a comic set outside North America / Europe. (This was #24in48 book five.)
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