A good overview for people who, like me, are both intimidated and enticed by Proust's masterwork. Beautiful artwork. #graphicnovels #proust

Great book about domestic work, civil rights, and racism. It tackles many heavy topics and is also quite funny! I wish more had changed in the 60+ years since this book was published. Highly recommended. #womenauthors #women #domesticwork #racism #civilrights

From the excellent One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg. #comics #graphicnovels #women #feminist

Excellent #graphicnovel about real Arctic exploration. #comics

I'm still really enjoying this book. This may be my favorite literary passage about a #cat. From "The Benefactress."

I looooved El Deafo by Cece Bell. It's the kind of book that makes you laugh and cheer out loud. It's also a great way for children and adults to learn about #deafness and #disability. #childrensbooks #graphicmemoir #comics

It took a bit for this book to grow on me, but I ended up really liking it, especially the part about the Peshtigo fire. #comics #womenauthors #graphicnovels #memoir

Some interesting notes on living with yourself from this story's town drunk.

This book will make you want to bake a #cake, or at least #eat one.

Great book about the plight of people trying to reach the EU from Africa and encountering countless perils along the way. #comics #graphicnovels

I haven't finished this yet, so it's hard to review in full, but I love the art. #comics #graphicnovels

It feels weird to have to learn how to eat at the age of 33, but I've been gaslighting my body with dieting for at least a decade, so I could use some help. I recommend this book to anyone in a similar situation. #bodypositivity #radicalselflove #antidiet #HAES

Love it, love it, love it. Too relatable. #comics #womenauthors #femaleauthors #guilt #graphicnovels

Weird to see Homer Simpson pop up in this mid-century classic!

A great dissertation on and introduction to #bodypositivity and #radicalselflove. I listened to the audiobook, which I found enjoyable! #bodypos #selflove #fat #bodypositive

Enjoying some #manga in a book-themed hostel in #Tokyo! I'm in heaven.

Good read, well drawn, and available on Hoopla!

I'm only three stories in to this collection, but it's excellent so far. I have the feeling that I've read this before, but I can't think of when... #shortstories #women #womenauthors

Great #travelogue about living for a year in Jerusalem. I feel like Delisle just gets better and better. There's so much in this book that it's quite difficult to pick something to highlight. #comics #graphicnovels #graphicnovel

I'm using some experimental #knitting to highlight a passage I really like. #knittingwhilereading

I can definitely see why my mother has been recommending this book to me for some long, and why the authors of the forewords bemoan that Berlin doesn't have more readers. #shortstories

This book is chilling and important. The extent of #Nazi plots in pre-war LA is terrifying, even though so many of them were far-fetched and impossible. Unfortunately, this book and its examination of #antisemitism is still relevant today. Thanks to Leon Lewis and his intrepid group of #spies for all they did to thwart #Nazis.

A fun #Singapore ghost story with bonus info on the Hungry Ghost Festival.

I couldn't put this one down. It wasn't perfect, but it was totally absorbing, and I almost stayed up all night reading it. Loved the art, loved the story! #comics #graphicnovels

These #retro #scifi stories get a little mind-numbing en masse, but they can be pretty delightful. #comics

This history of Birobidzhan, a failed experiment in creating a Jewish autonomous region in the USSR, makes me sad and angry, but occasionally it's pretty funny, too.

I have mixed feelings about this book. I love Seth's drawing style and his love for history and the past, but this book is so nostalgic that it gets off-putting. I also winced when I realized that his companion in this book is Chester Brown, a fellow Canadian cartoonist whose work 'Paying for It' was pretty repellant to me. All in all, I think I prefer non-autobiographical cartooning...

A classic octopus cannon maneuver.

Humboldt, one of the founders of natural science as we know it today, looks so happy here among the biological majesty of South America. He also doesn't seem to mind that I'm winding a ball of yarn while I read about him.

This book is entertaining, thoughtfulness, and quite poetic.

This novel in the form of a dictionary has some really intriguing linguistic philosophy going on in it. I recommend it to anyone interested in language, and especially Chinese languages and dialects.

Not the funniest thing ever, but it's an enjoyable send-up of Goop, "clean eating," diet culture, and general snobbery. I like the audiobook - the narrator is quite fun - but I bet the pictures in the regular edition are great.

This book of Filipino short stories and a play was just excellent. I hope this writer of magical realistic stories becomes better known outside the Philippines- I know I had never heard of him before. #knittingwhilereading #philippines #filipino

This was a fun, quick read! Recommended for the scientific angle on zombie physiology and epidemiology.

I checked out the audiobook and the ebook from my library, and it was odd and interesting how they were different from each other. The audio version is, of course, missing the drawings, but it seems to have extra description that isn't included in the ebook. The acting is good, too - I think the two versions complement each other well.

I don't usually read YA (which I think this is?), but I'm really enjoying Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror. It's not a graphic novel, but it has illustrations that are strongly influenced by Gorey. The stories have a classic feel to them while still being original and totally scarifying.

This story of a haunted Ikea-knockoff is pretty fun. I already thought Ikea was kind of scary! Just to clarify, this isn't a graphic novel - it just has Ikea-catalog-style illustrations at each chapter head.

Great Halloween reading. Thanks to everyone who recommended it to me!

I thought this book about what is expected of women's bodies was good and important. I don't love the art style, but it's not bad. Trigger warnings for this work: eating disorders, diet culture, some violent sex.

This was a little generic in some senses for me, but it was also quite touching and visually appealing. Sort of like if Miranda July toned down her oddities and wrote a graphic novel.

So much fun! Delightfully scary and beautifully illustrated.

I found this book at a restaurant and really enjoyed the first chapter of so before I had to reluctantly put it back. I'm glad it's very easy to find at the library back home! #hammock #beachread

Making a messy little knitting nest while reading Against Health. I like this book so far, even if I don't always agree with what it has to say. I definitely appreciate its effort to take the moralizing out of health concerns. #knittingwhilereading

Pretty weird when a book cover misspells the author's name.

This book is excellent so far. A good guide for beginners or more experienced people to expand their practice. #yoga #yogaforeverybody

Sort of an odd amount of Bobs on my Overdrive shelf right now.

The Shadow Hero, a book by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew loosely based on the short-lived golden age #comic "The Green Turtle." The Green Turtle was made by Chu Hing, one of the first Asian Americans to work in the American #comics industry, and Yang thinks that Hing wanted the Green Turtle to be Asian American as well. Yang speculates that Hing never let the Green Turtle's face show because his publisher thought an Asian superhero wouldn't sell.

If you're on this app, it's a fair bet that you'll enjoy My Life with Bob, a memoir of sorts about a life spent in the company of books. Thanks to @Lkelly for suggesting it! #tsundoku

I am again struck by thoughts of coincidence and serendipity while winding skeins and reading about strange loops in Gödel, Escher, Bach. #knittingwhilereading #yarn