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jess_mango's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 stars. "Make Me a Woman" is a collection of short autobiographical comics...Davis' diary entries from when she was a young adult up until recent years. Some of the vignettes were more developped than others...some being not much more than a single frame pencil sketch and others in full color and spanning multiple pages.
pastavoyage's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
syntaxx's review against another edition
medium-paced
2.0
Didn’t like this one as much as I expected to. Text was a “hand-written” cursive font in the majority of places and was very difficult to read. Not much of a story, just a collection of concepts and comics from the same author. Not for me.
meghan111's review against another edition
4.0
Autobiographical comics from a young woman intermixed with looser sketchbook pages.
saidtheraina's review against another edition
3.0
This is a rather amazing collection of sketches and completed comics created by Vanessa Davis. She's close to me in age, so I appreciated her perspective on growing up as a woman in the world. She also talks a lot about being part of the Jewish culture, and the book starts with her bat mitzvah. She ends with a comic about feeling restless, needing to settle down, and decide what she's going to do with her life. The title "Make Me a Woman" is very appropriate. It's also neat to watch her go through her twenties. In some ways, I'm torn - she could have been a little more selective about the titles she included and worked them up - there's a lot of unfinished images. But in some ways that the joy of this. Good good stuff.
Oh yeah, and she also includes full page illustrations of women between sections of the book. I like the way she draws them.
Oh yeah, and she also includes full page illustrations of women between sections of the book. I like the way she draws them.
blusapphirereads's review against another edition
3.0
This is my very first time reading a graphic novel. It seemed all over the place to me. I don’t know if I liked it or disliked it.However, I appreciate the “realness” of the author’s writing. The drawings seemed real. Real people shapes. Real bad hair and haircuts. The conversations seemed real even though I sometimes I had time trying to figure out where to read first and then next. One thing I loved is that she didn’t harp
On being a curvy woman. She accepted it and seemed to have loved herself and her size.
On being a curvy woman. She accepted it and seemed to have loved herself and her size.
segza's review against another edition
1.0
This didn't work for me. I found the panels difficult to follow -- as in it was not easy to figure out the sequence of the text and that is my biggest pet peeve in graphic novels. I also wasn't a huge fan of the illustrations or the font used for the text. Even some of the stories seemed really disjointed to me -- the vignette about not liking consumerism around Hanukkah that went on to describe her time spent studying textiles in Guatemala then finished with her purchasing trousers from Old Navy -- I just didn't follow the train of thought there. But, like all my reviews, this is just my opinion, another reader who recommended this to me and whose taste I am generally in sync with, loved this.
mrsthrift's review against another edition
4.0
I'm not sure how all of these "teen girl/adolescence/coming of age" graphic novels made it to the top of my reading list at the same time, but it is what it is. I must have gone through some "top 10" list I don't remember. Regardless, I really liked this one. It took me a long time to start this book due to said reading list, but once I got started it was hard for me to stop. This autobiographical graphic novel is part full-color anecdotes and memoir, part daily diary format done in pencil sketches, but both parts are completely delightful. It's punctuated with full page illustrations of girls with real bodies in various levels of fanciness, most of them dancing.
I loved the dancing girls. The book is an entertaining romp through the author's Jewish childhood & early adulthood, with brief forays into fat camp (she liked it) Jewish school (liked it less), sisterhood (liked it even less) and the nuances of teenage female friendships. I really liked reading this book. It was alternately hilarious, awkward, earnest and insightful. The art is sort of loose and energetic, which made me think of Lynda Barry's work in the way that it features awkward girlhood, conversational dialog and strained familial relationships. There's not really anything more I can say about something once I compare it to Lynda Barry. Either you get it or you don't. By the end, I felt like Vanessa Davis was my friend. Then I closed the book, and I missed her.
I loved the dancing girls. The book is an entertaining romp through the author's Jewish childhood & early adulthood, with brief forays into fat camp (she liked it) Jewish school (liked it less), sisterhood (liked it even less) and the nuances of teenage female friendships. I really liked reading this book. It was alternately hilarious, awkward, earnest and insightful. The art is sort of loose and energetic, which made me think of Lynda Barry's work in the way that it features awkward girlhood, conversational dialog and strained familial relationships. There's not really anything more I can say about something once I compare it to Lynda Barry. Either you get it or you don't. By the end, I felt like Vanessa Davis was my friend. Then I closed the book, and I missed her.