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54 reviews

Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls

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slow-paced

3.0

On one hand, this graphic novel was profound, informative, and interesting. On the other hand, it was so repetitive and in need of a serious edit. The ideas were beaten to death, which sucked out all my enjoyment of it. 
Final Cut by Charles Burns

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  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

The artwork was masterfully, the story less so. 
Mean Boys: A Personal History by Geoffrey Mak

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

Many of these essays were as brilliant as they were bloated. Mak’s writing lens wavered considerably. He wandered between being  self-aware, interesting, solipsistic, self-important, tender, and imperfectly kind. 
Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

You Get What You Pay For by Morgan Parker

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4.25

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

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4.75

Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake

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2.0

All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey by Teresa Wong

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4.25

Ocultos by Laura Pérez

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective

3.75

The art and vignettes in this book are utterly gorgeous. Ultimately I craved more connective tissue between the episodes or chapter, though. I want to reread this book numerous times to see if it gels more on a third read. 
Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story by Nicole Maines

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adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75