For me, 2026 has been a year of re-reading Discworld,1,2 reading Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes,3 meeting fellow Discworld fans4 at a Pórtico5 meetup in Spain during Celsius 2326, and encouraging people I know to try reading Discworld for the first time! All of these experiences have made me reflect on how I got … Continue reading Discworld Reading Order: Where Did I Start?
Review: The March trilogy
The March trilogy, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, + Nate Powell = 5/5 Split across three volumes, The March is the illustrated autobiography of now-Congressman John Lewis and his experiences as a leader of the US Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s. Interspersed throughout the narrative are more recent recollections of his thoughts and … Continue reading Review: The March trilogy
Review: Things We Couldn’t Say
Things We Couldn't Say (by Diet Eman, with James Schaap) = 4/5 Eman's autobiography recounts her personal experiences as a member of the Dutch Resistance movement during WWII and a concentration camp prisoner during the Holocaust. Through a combination of modern era recollections and contemporary diary entries and letters from WWII, Eman describes the factors … Continue reading Review: Things We Couldn’t Say
Review: Maus
Maus = 5/5 Art Spiegelman's graphic novel treatment of the Holocaust is masterfully done, and I'm sorry it took me so long to read this duology/book; it was near-impossible to put down. Maus is a visual biography about Spiegelman's father's experiences as a Jew trying to survive the Holocaust in Poland. It mixes the biography … Continue reading Review: Maus
Review: Blankets
Blankets = 4/5 An autobiographical story, Craig Thompson's graphic novel Blankets has been on my to-read list for a few years (found out about it in 2013, but it's been out since 2003). It's a memoir about a Midwestern guy struggling to figure himself out when he falls in love for the first time. The … Continue reading Review: Blankets