I’ve never been a serious graphic novel fan, but once in a while hear of one that sounds up my alley. I think this is one. It’s pretty cool. It’s set in two different places/time periods, and features two main characters: 1920s Hollywood, and Pearl, a young aspiring actress who’s ambitious and perhaps not too wise to the ways of the world, and 1850s (or so — I’ve already returned the book to the library and can’t remember) old west, featuring Skinner Sweet, an outlaw. […]
These ‘boots are made for killin’.
Yay for another YA dystopia book! No, really. It was fun, and I zoomed through it. There’s been a crazy-ass virus that, if you get it and live, does this thing where if you die later of something else, you might just come back to life. Or a version of you might — depending on how long you were dead, you’ll retain some amount of humanness. The shorter the duration between death and “rebooting,” the more human characteristics you’ll have as a Reboot. Reboots are […]
Maybe someday…
I am WAY in the minority with this one, I know, but it is not for me. I hesitated before writing anything about it, because I didn’t even finish it. I was fairly involved for about 50 pages, less so for maybe 50 more, and finally gave up about 3/4 in when I realized not only did I not care what happened, but also didn’t even find it particularly interesting. Probably, if I owned this, it would sit on the nightstand for a few weeks, […]
I feel like I am missing something.
I liked this book, first of all. It’s actually two novellas, and I enjoyed them both about equally. Yoshimoto’s earnestness? honesty? clarity? could have come across as sentimental, or something worse — cutesy, maybe, despite the rather deep themes of death, loss, belonging, place… But I digress. I just felt like I couldn’t quite “get” it. Since finishing, I’ve read a couple of really negative reviews of the translation. I wouldn’t have come up with that, but who knows? Regardless, there’s a sweetness to these […]