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carleesi's review against another edition
0.25
There was so much predatory behavior from older women in these stories that I couldn’t enjoy any of them without being afraid of what was coming in the next panel.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship
caseythecanadianlesbrarian's review against another edition
4.0
On Loving Women by Québécois animator, graphic artist, and painter Diane Obomsawin is another really awesome book that I’m not sure I would have heard about if it hadn’t been sent to me to review! So I am super happy to be able to share it with you all. On Loving Women is a pretty quick read, and seemingly simple. It’s a collection of comics about coming-out—specifically, Obomsawin’s friends and lovers. It’s originally in French, and was translated by Helge Dascher. While this book is simple, I’d like to unpack this simplicity a little bit and see what we can come up with.
The stories are brief, and at first, I was finding it a bit hard to differentiate between stories—the linguistic style changes a bit, but the graphic one doesn’t. Maybe it’s because I read it so fast—because it’s graphic, and pictures are so much faster to digest than words. But I also think that plain and simple I read it quickly because it’s really good and I didn’t want to put it down! I’m also just not as attuned to visual art, so there may have been differences I just wasn’t picking up on. In the end, though, it was kind of clever that the stories bled together, as a group of friends’ coming-out stories tend to do over the years of telling and re-telling them....
See the rest of my review on my website: http://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/seemingly-simple-graphic-stories-about-messy-coming-out-stories-a-review-of-diane-obomsawins-on-loving-women/
The stories are brief, and at first, I was finding it a bit hard to differentiate between stories—the linguistic style changes a bit, but the graphic one doesn’t. Maybe it’s because I read it so fast—because it’s graphic, and pictures are so much faster to digest than words. But I also think that plain and simple I read it quickly because it’s really good and I didn’t want to put it down! I’m also just not as attuned to visual art, so there may have been differences I just wasn’t picking up on. In the end, though, it was kind of clever that the stories bled together, as a group of friends’ coming-out stories tend to do over the years of telling and re-telling them....
See the rest of my review on my website: http://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/seemingly-simple-graphic-stories-about-messy-coming-out-stories-a-review-of-diane-obomsawins-on-loving-women/
rainbowbookworm's review against another edition
2.0
Not what I expected. I bought it without knowing what it was about. I expected autobiographical skits. Instead I found unconnected coming out stories.
I would have preferred a connecting thread. Even one as flimsy as friends gathered at a party sharing their coming out stories.
I would have preferred a connecting thread. Even one as flimsy as friends gathered at a party sharing their coming out stories.
celenabean's review against another edition
3.0
This was good but I felt like I was almost left wanting more. Like the book could have been way way longer I find. I understand it was trying to just show short tidbits of how people understand their own queer identities and I think it does that but I just felt like each story could have just been a little bit longer.
Still a good read of course and I did enjoy it plus it's fast and fun to get through. Plus it's always nice to see some solid lesbian relationships told in an honest way by people who have lived through them
Still a good read of course and I did enjoy it plus it's fast and fun to get through. Plus it's always nice to see some solid lesbian relationships told in an honest way by people who have lived through them
woowottreads's review against another edition
3.0
I'm always up for LGBT self discovery stories, so I appreciate what this is going for. The art is cute animals, but it's not great. It's all very perfunctory and scatter-brained. The anecdotes jump from one thing to another without so much as a by-your-leave. I knew nothing about this, because I randomly found it at Barnes & Noble. But it seemed that every story was an old lesbian, often butch. It's a good thing to have read; but, honestly, if you want a really good lesbian true story, check out 'My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness' by Kabi Nagata-sensei.
faeriexprincette's review against another edition
3.0
Just alright. You could tell the author was older and the women featured were too which was pretty cool in my opinion. Very short, simple stories about discovering sexuality.