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So much realness, raw honesty, about the experience of war. So many women, so many different stories.
Such a different type of story than I'm used to from Zviane. It was the age old tale of the mad scientist and the political unrest with two little girls who needed love and safety. (I did not even try with the Banane-Banane language.)
cute little comics from her time spent in Japan and all the differences from n amer/canadian ways of life.
I like Zviane's autobiographical stuff a lot. This one is full of réponse BDs and art + musique theory
oh man, I thought this was going to be some kind of Proust retelling (maybe it is? I've never read In Search of Lost Time) and was completely unprepared for the feelings. Very touching story of loss and change.
I laughed and laughed and laughed. Great reading. (edit to add- it also does that really annoying ‘make-over = beautiful and worthy of love' shit and we already have a love triangle instead of happy learning to accept different people friend puddle. But I can't help being into it anyway :/ )
Une petite histoire familiale. Un père qui s'occupe avec son fils autiste en utilisant des méthodes inhabituelles pour se rendre son fils mieux adaptée dans le monde. Vraiment intéressant et touchant.
Social justice sports memoir! It's weird to reread about the last few years and how much was going on before covid. Rapinoe's personality really comes through in this memoir and while it hits much of the expected sports memoir highlights : being exceptional at a young age, family, playing on an international stage, dealing with coach personality conflicts, the work that being a full-time sport athlete means - we also get to see Rapinoe talk about learning about and advocating social justice issues.
You've all seen the Miyazaki movie - now we have an English translation of the original work! While the story has some major differences the feel comes through - it's like a warm hug.
Not at all what I expected. #bookclub4m psychological horror genre (existential horror maybe)
Ok! I'm feeling both encouraged and depressed!
So - I had no idea who Amber Tamblyn was when I borrowed this, I haven't seen any of her work. The beginning bits on Hilary Clintons campaigns, or her first producing/directorial role did not catch me so well (I'm Canadian, and wasn't that invested) But! Then we got into the #Metoo movement and the anonymous Black woman** in one of the first closed door discussions of industry women who said /paraphrasing/ “well, how are you going to make sure to include black women? Usually we are ignored.”
And then we get fucking intersectional.
Of course reading this 2019 publication during ongoing blacklivesmatters protests just highlights how much of a marathon the work for justice really is.
**Because Tamblyn is very explicit about naming nearly all the people in her text, that the woman is anonymous here feels weird. If it was the speaker's preference I wish Tamblyn had noted that.
Very readable, feminist approach. You should know many of these things, but you still have to put them into practice to get them to work (I imagine)
I have some quibbles (why 36 point /two page spread poems?) but as an influencer fitness book I'm fine with this. The exercises could have more photos and I get she's in love with powerlifting but there are other strength modalities. Love the cover!