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Here, by Richard McGuire (2014)

Premise: The story of a room across the generations of its inhabitants.

Review: This is a brilliant premise brilliantly executed. You really just have to see it to appreciate it.

Bookish Pair: A literary version of this idea was well-executed in North Woods, by Daniel Mason (2023)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🖼️ Graphic Novel

🕰️ Historical

Medium: Graphic Novel

I watched this movie last week (Tom Hanks, #iykyk) & cried as hard as I've cried at a movie in some time. I didn't know it was based on a graphic novel until the credits rolled, & I immediately ordered it. The premise is brilliant - the "camera" stays in one place for the entirety, as we jump back & forth through time, often with multiple years in different, overlapping panes on the same page. Almost no words. So good.

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This is such a dazzling book. The way McGuire overlaps all the episodes on top of one another is revelatory. I love how we can see how much has changed and how much things stay the same all at once. I‘ll be thinking about this for a while.

This graphic novel takes place in one corner of a room over hundreds of thousands of years. What a concept!

This is a powerful work of art.

In 2019, we moved into a house which was built in 1938. Since I often experience the world through history and timelines, I researched the former occupants of the house through public records and then found old photos online of several of them. Comparing snapshots taken through the decades in our living room and yard has greatly affected me. This book, recommended by my friend Shawn, did the same. ⬇️

#12booksof2020 @Anderw65
Here was a great graphic novel. I read it as part of #lmpbc.

Taking a break from #screamathon2020 with this non-spooky graphic novel that focuses on one corner of a house over thousands of years. The book depicts multiple flashes of life going on in this one spot. I loved both the concept and the execution of this! I especially loved the one tiny snippet of the tree as a sapling!

I‘m not really sure I got this. I liked the artwork, but I needed a story, not just picture-vignettes. It felt too disjointed (which I‘m guessing is the point), which made it hard for me to engage with it. 🤷‍♀️

#lmpbc @REPollock @LibrarianRyan @mklong
I loved this book. It was so fun to see how a house and piece of land changes over the years, but yet still stays the same.
Is this really what we will be like 30 years?

#lmpbc
I loved this game as a kid. It is such a time less game. I even have a quilt designed after it on my wall.

4⭐️ entirely intrigued and unusual. I loved it. Thanks @REPollock

 @cwarnier I‘ll get these two books in the mail to you tomorrow!! #LMPBC

What an absolutely wonderful book! My home was built in 1938 and I often wonder about those who lived here before me. This is such a beautiful representation of all the lives lived in a single space. Thank you so much for sharing it @REPollock

@LibrarianRyan It will be headed your way tomorrow

#LMPBC

I've never read anything like this beautiful, profound graphic novel. The blurb sort of describes what this book is about, but not really, and I don't know that i can convey how deeply moving i found it.

Caveat: I am not a graphic novel reader. I've read Maus and the Sandman books and that's about it.

Sending it on to the next person in my #LPMBC group tomorrow or Friday!

Really enjoyed the black cat cameo in this excellent graphic novel. So far, SO good. #lmpbc

Starting my #lmpbc book a bit late I think but hooray!

My #LPMBC book is here! Go team graphic novels!

@mklong @LibrarianRyan @cwarnier

This. Book. Is. Beautiful. Visually stunning, incredible depth, will definitely go back again and again to decipher more.

ALSO.

Just started a books/writing instagram if anybody wants to check it out ❤️

@ everydayhonestiesreads

I was told this was a graphic novel but what it actually is, is art. It shows one place, one home, one plot of land (depending on the year) over millennia‘s. It‘s actually quite beautiful. It‘s so creative and unique. I loved this page on the right. My gramma loved hummingbirds and this page was too pretty not to share — 4⭐️

#review #bookworm

This one is hard to describe. The entire thing takes place in one room of a house over thousands of years. Each page contains a variety of images with the year listed in the top corner. There might be a Native American hunting in one corner & a child dancing in 1950 in another. It's powerful in its simplicity. I found myself studying ever detail on the pages. I loved the meditation on time & how things change & stay the same. Beautifully executed.

Unusual and interesting graphic/comic novel (?)

A single space and corner of a room over hundreds of thousands of years.

Went on a pretty hefty #bookhaul today to celebrate a recovered store credit voucher, so brace for a bunch of updates.

Have wanted this book for a while and was pleasantly surprised to find it used. Even more surprised to learn it was a graphic novel.

One of the quietest, most profoundly beautiful books I have ever had the pleasure of reading.

A beautiful meditation on the concepts of place, of home, and of the passage of time. This book offers views of the corner of a room over an enormous timescale. I really loved it and want my own copy now.

I expected a book of poems and got a piece of art in its place with this book. This book reads like a scrapbook covering the lifespan of a house and the land that it stood on before it even was a home. Each page is a series of captured moments from various years. This book is not in chronological order but more in themed order. Really really lovely.

My heart is in pieces on the floor right now. I knew the conceit of the book, knew it was beautiful and lauded and that I should appreciate it but I didn't know how piercingly it would be able to connect with you, how scattered yet connected the themes, how well it would still be able to make a point and have a voice. This book is positively haunting-I need to find a copy of my own stat.
#letsgetgraphicweeklongmarathon

The future is full of #badassery
#speechbubblechallenge
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Um, so, apparently in 2126 this house is gonna be underwater. #panic!!
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#allthefeels #speechbubblechallenge
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My 6th book of
#letsgetgraphicweeklongmarathon is absolutely magnificent.

Hey @xicanti do you think I'm prepared for #comicthon? 😂 I love the library. Oh the off chance that my match from #geekygraphicnovelswap got me one of these already, don't worry, I'll still want it. 😉

It's a very creative graphic novel about one room in a big house. In one page the author is showing scenes from different decades and centuries that happened in one particular spot. He browses from different owners and generations, their births, deaths, holidays and conversations happened in this place even when where was no house, even when where were no people (some scenes in B.C. era).

Brilliant.

An eye-opening use of the medium that takes as its subject a space. Its inhabitants slip in and out of time in pop-up panels so the 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, and 2000s can be present at once, creating a kaleidoscope of experiences that highlight both their universality and their transience. Meanwhile, molten landscapes of the past and floods of the future slip by our little human dramas in a larger story that has--and needs--no words.

I don't know why, but I completely lost it when I got to this page (1,000,000 BCE). Tears everywhere! I can't explain it. Maybe because it's so barren; maybe because so very long ago none of us - none of this - were here. It's quite a thing to try to comprehend. Anyway, this graphic novel is super rad. Snapshots of a single corner of a room, of a same space, over thousands of years. I'll be flipping through this many times, I already know it.

I don't choose "Here" as a #laidbackbook because most of its pages are wordless, but because its a quick read with a straightforward and profound premise. "Here" is about the ephemeral. Today my "here" has a pink concrete duck, but I remember this same here 20 yrs ago as wilderness. What will be here in 100 years? What was here 1000 years ago? It's laid back because I can chill and think about it. #augustphotochallenge #day10

I'm counting Here on my list of books read in 2016, even though it's mostly pictures. It is gorgeous. (I am the woman cleaning.)

"The story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds of thousands of years." A beautiful book and a striking reminder that regardless of Material Things that divide -- certain emotions and experiences are universal past, present, and future