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I love Tillie Walden’s art and storytelling. The only hard part for me with this was that it was autobiographical and that is always a genre I have trouble with. Would still recommend!

hannahrose_99's review against another edition

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4.75

one thing about me is i'll pick up a graphic memoir about pretty much anything! i've read pretty much everything tillie walden has ever written, and i think this might be my favorite so far!! heart-wrenching as often as it was tender. the scene of tillie and her friend looking up "how girls kiss" on the internet made me ache. i learned a lot about figure skating culture, something i truly had no clue of outside of watching i, tonya one time. the use of color in this graphic novel was so good as well.

might make this a 5 star at some point but it's a 4.5 right now!

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4.0

I am so obsessed w Walden’s work. This one was hard to get through- not because it wasn’t good, but it was really heavy at points. It is sometimes a bit disjointed and the pacing isn’t always comprehensible, but I get that it might be on purpose, as real memories often feel the same. Will be reading the rest of her stuff for sure. ❤️

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challenging dark emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

If there are Mount Rushmore of comic book creators, Tilly Walden would be up there next to Will Eisner. This book could be used as a textbook on how to make amazing comics. Walden's ability to use imagry to not only illustrate the story but you add to it to tell more of it, it is visual storytelling at its finest. While this book is about ice skating it's obviously not just about ice skating it's one of the deepest and heaviest books I have ever read.

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barnesbookshelf's review against another edition

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reflective fast-paced

3.5

This book wasn't quite what I expected it to be. I found it interesting how Walden continued to do something she hated so much for so long, but with the events of her life, it makes sense. I hope that Walden has gotten some healing since publishing this book.

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