pickSo I found this in my library network's catalog back in November while trying to find books about Ethiopians to read and checked it out before my library closed in March. I was going read this regardless. But I was pleased to discover it was also engaging and darkly humorous. I laughed a lot and I also cried a lot. And I read entirely while walking on my treadmill!
#ethiopia #ethopians #redterror #history #memoir #nonfiction #plaguebreak
pickAnother book I had to rush because it was due but I love how comprehensive yet accessible this book was. And this author has more like it! I might check those out!
#nonfiction #death #plaguebreak
pickSomeone had checked the third one out before #plaguebreak so I only checked out the first two. But they were both fantastic. I enjoyed the artwork and the story. (I hate his father, but his father is pretty unlikeable...) I can't wait to read the rest and I hope he's still working on his fifth and final installment.
#graphicmemoir #authorillustrator
so-soThis is FINALLY off my currently reading lists! Took a #plaguebreak but I finished a book from a reading challenge I didn't finish in 2018. Yet ANOTHER book that was totally different at the end, but I still remember what most of this book was like.
Funny and accessible language, but takes too much time and concentration to read.
so-soAnother book that really picked up at the end, trying to get me to recommend it. Nope! The first 200 pages were pretty forgettable. I first checked this out as an ebook, but I was going too slowly (I kept walking away). Of the three books I read where white men do something weird for a year while their wives put up with it, I liked this the least. At least #plaguebreak helped me get this off my "Currently Reading" where it had been since July 2018
pickPart of my #plaguebreak stack, I started reading this one because the books I was reading weren't good enough. But this was the right book (about a pandemic) at the right time (during another pandemic).
With a lesser story, the art style and text-heavy panels probably would've turned me off. But it was moving and compelling.
#graphicmemoir #graphicmedicine #oralhistory #authorartist
Before my workplace closed, I checked out all of these books. It wasn't just me: we did a week's worth of circulation in a half a day. I'm especially excited to read the tagged book during #plaguebreak
When I called ereyesterday, the woman at the branch said I was no. 107 on the hold list. Then I got an email this afternoon that my tiny branch got a copy! I had hoped most to read this during my #plaguebreak.
#alyssatriesfiction #librariansreadinglibrarians
