pickIt‘s the second #SweetValleySpringBreak for these juniors & the Wakefield twins join in a 10-day exchange program! They head to Cannes to stay with Avery Glize & her American-hating (but handsome) son, René. Ferney Glize (a Tricia Martin lookalike!) arrives in #SweetValley, haunting Steven. In France, Jess falls in love with a boy who thinks she‘s Liz & Liz fixes not only René‘s prejudice, but his drowning trauma & relationship with his father!
pickThree Canandian college friends take a trip to New York City. Their adventures are expressive and so much that happens in this book feels urgent like it burns too hot too fast. I love the character and page designs, especially their trip to the museum. The ending felt like falling flat on my face.
#Comics #LGBTQIA
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Recent Reads January 7: queer lit; graphic novels; translated fiction; travel memories
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pickI was 23 the first time I went to New York. It was 1983: I travelled with four other queers. The Tamaki cousins transported me right back to that feeling of wonder & bewilderment at being a young, non cosmopolitan Canadian in NYC—& what it‘s like to negotiate friendships & romantic feelings at that age as well. The artwork in this graphic novel is sublime, right down to the cigarette butts & pizza crusts on the ground. #LGBTQ #comics
In this Where‘s Waldo-type two-page spread, I not only enjoyed looking for the novel‘s three protagonists wandering through the Met, but I also enjoyed recognizing various artworks, especially the Neolithic-era pot… because the Mesopotamia/ Neolithic to Bronze Age pottery section is what I look for first in any art history museum. 👌
