I admit I picked this up for the title, but I was charmed. The translation was, I suspect, quite good, but I haven't seen the original to compare.

Loved this book and am very impressed with the translation job! Even the rants of swearing translated perfectly, and the illustrations made me want to desperately go shoe shopping. A quick, fun read - I just wish Margeaux's blog had an English translation, too!

Jeg samlede den her op hjemme hos en veninde, mens hun holdt online-møde. Den er smukt tegnet, men alt for cliché-fyldt til mig: Jeg forvandler mig til Hulk, når jeg har menstruation, I ved?

I had to look up this book and sure enough it was published a decade ago in France, so it much have been from older comics on the author's blog.

It's basically was if Carrie Bradshaw was French cartoonist who got married and have a kid. It's a lot of clotheshorse and feminine cliches about loving shoes, fashion, wanting to be sexy, etc. It's fun in small doses, but reading a full book of them is monotonous. She sort of acknowledges this in her penultimate cartoon where she tells her friend about this book, and he responds "Yeah, if you want to be the Sarah Silverman of comics,https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit/13543450# you're on the right track."

The book's greatest strength is the artist's style. The characters are fashion croquis come to life. They're not just long-limbed, not loose-limbed for great comic effect and the body language acting. She also does great facial expressions. I loved the art.

If you read French, I suggest you follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/margauxmotin/
or read her blog yourself: http://margauxmotin.typepad.fr/

Nice art, but memoir/journal comics are hard for me if I'm disinterested in the main character. Lots of cliches about what it means to be a lady. Like Cathy cartoons if Cathy were a hot French woman. Le "Ack!"

so, so funny xDD

LOVED her drawing style. cute little joke-filled commentary on life. leaned slightly too much towards the sex in the city lifestyle for my taste, but i'm willing to overlook that due to the amusement factor

Frothy, mostly single-panel comics about being beautiful but not knowing it, being a mom but also cool, and being French, but obsessed with shoes.

Oh, right - that actually makes sense.

Seriously, though - as another reviewer commented, this content could easily be run in one of those fashion magazines that I rip pages out of to decorate my journal with. (Ok, she didn't say all of the last part, just the magazine part.)

Motin's illustrations have a languid quality to them - everything is curved and light and there's a tonne of white space (though there's well-placed color in this edition). There's no particular narrative arch - just moments out of (what sounds like a quite privileged) life.

One small comment, though: I really wish the publisher had placed the titles of some of the pieces at the bottom of the pages rather than the top. When I resisted and waited until I'd read the content, the title was a great kicker. But placing that at the top of the page draws the reader to it first. Which doesn't pack as much punch.

Yeah, I'm tempted to kinda hate her, but I believe in everyone getting their opportunity to speak, and I know people like her who I can't help but love, so... yeah.

I'd kinda love to lock her and [a:Lewis Trondheim|45196|Lewis Trondheim|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1262511191p2/45196.jpg] in a room together, though.