Welcome to our Banned Graphic Novels book club! This go round we’ve selected three graphic novels that have been banned or challenged for various reasons. Each of our books –Class Act by Jerry Craft, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, and This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
Rogues, the whole lot of them.
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe
Last year I did a Patrick Radden Keefe double-header: Say Nothing and Empire of Pain. It was… a doozy. Keefe writes incredibly well (he’s got a slew of awards to prove it) and excels at deep dives into larger-than-life personalities. When Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks went on sale on Chirp I scooped it up. Rogues is a collection of Keefe’s previous writings for The New Yorker. Keefe describes in his preface how journalists often develop a lane, and while he […]
“Sometimes I feel like my brain is a machine built by someone who lost the instruction manual.”
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
I haven’t often re-read books in the past decade as I’ve gone on my Cannonball journey. But sometimes I revisit an old favorite, or earlier books in a series before continuing with the newly published. Due to my personal commitment to reading banned and challenged books it has also meant that our Banned Book Week book clubs have included re-reads. I try to review the re-reads on their own merits – what was the reading experience this time. But in the case of Gender Queer my […]
“Don’t worry about any of this stuff, okay? It’s all just adult junk that doesn’t mean anything.”
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki
This One Summer is a re-read for me. It is also the book I have read in the past few years specifically from the Banned Book List put out by the ALA that makes me scratch my head the most. It is because this is the book that hit #1 most challenged in 2016 and was why I read it in 2017. It then came back to the top ten in 2018. It did not make sense to me then, and it makes little sense […]
“Big Pancake doesn’t want you to know this, but making pancakes is easier than you think.”
The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don’t Die by Zilla Novikov, Rachel A. Rosen, Marten Norr (Illustrator)
When my brain is cooperating, I enjoy cooking. But as a neurodivergent person who lives by herself and absolutely has no idea what is presently in my refrigerator at any time (yes, even immediately after going to the grocery store) keeping myself fed has always been an interesting challenge that I attempt to hide from the world around me. I also tend to get stuck in eating the same thing over and over as many autistic folks do. Add to that the problem that meal […]
Relationship Between a Vampire and a Werewolf
Fangs by Sarah Andersen
One of the Read Harder tasks this year is to read a completed web-comic. Not having too much of an idea where to start I did some internet sleuthing and came up with Sarah Andersen’s Fangs. I have been a casual fan of Andersen’s work, particularly her Sarah’s Scribbles series that so often appear on my social media feeds. With the information at hand, this seemed like an excellent solution to finding just the right sort of book for me right now to fulfill this task. […]
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