Two years ago, my friend C invited me to come see Good People at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago with her. I was really glad I did for several reasons. First, it’s a really, really good play. Second, before it started, we were talking about where we were in the doctoral work (we started out together and are the only two in our year), and she helped me sort out some of the self-defeat and pessimism I’d been experiencing. Seriously, I could not have done […]
Grief is indeed a rabbit hole.
A few years ago, a couple I became friends with in my MA program lost their daughter in the second trimester. It was highly traumatic, and they struggled with the fallout for a long time, even after they got pregnant with their first son. In the midst of this process, they went to see the film adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire’s play Rabbit Hole and said they found it cathartic. I still haven’t seen the film with Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart, but I’ve been meaning […]
A lost empire is still lost.
In my quest to read more international Anglophone works, I sort of got sidetracked by other books from the library. So reading The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai is a way for me to get back on track a bit. It’s also the 2006 Man Booker Prize Winner, so hooray for checking another Booker title off my list! I really appreciated the themes in this novel, even if it was sometimes a bit dense or unfamiliar (but that’s a good thing, I believe). The […]
Fun comics and cute animals: instant recipe for success.
I’m not a huge Tumblr user, but I’ve occasionally run into Liz Climo’s comics and thought they were adorable/hilarious. So when I saw her book at the library, I decided it was time to take a break from the long and heavy books I’ve been reading lately and do some laughing. Because this is a series of comics, often unrelated, there’s not necessarily a narrative thread driving the comics together. But there is a running joke about a surprise party gone awry, a dinosaur baby […]
FINALLY got to read this. Totally worth the wait.
This book has been making the 2014 Best-of Lists, as well as the round amongst my friends and Cannonball Readers. Of course, that also means it’s been impossible to lay hold of a copy at my library, so I’ve been waiting for months. And when I finally got it in my mitts, I devoured it like a box of chocolates. I’ve read a lot of great books already for CBR7, and this is already a favorite. The novel tells the story of two different people: […]
The Sculptor and the Angel
I am a *huge* fan of Scott McCloud. His book Understanding Comics is a staple for understanding graphic novels and images, and I teach from excerpts of it every time I teach visual literacy. His cogent analysis of comics, images, and text is informative and also entertaining. So when I heard that he was coming out with a new graphic novel of his own, I got really excited. When it came in at the library, I was initially daunted by the sheer size of it […]
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