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pyrrhicspondee 's review for:
Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir
by Tom Hart
[dumb goodreads just ATE my original review.]
I didn't really want to read this book. But it was on the coffee table and I'm not into commitment this summer. Holy shit, I am glad I did. This book is weird in the best ways. It is iterative and fractured, like grief. And Hart uses cartoon images as refrains, recontextualizing them in each presentation and literally showing us how he thinks.
I thought I was going to teach "[b:The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye|25733982|The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye|Sonny Liew|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1439837421s/25733982.jpg|21998008]," but now I think I might teach this. It does similar things with nesting stories and destabilizing reality, and I think it might be more accessible to my students. Maybe? I'll just have to poll some kids real casual like to see which book they would rather dig into and rip apart.
Also, I cried for half of it. Goddamn.
I didn't really want to read this book. But it was on the coffee table and I'm not into commitment this summer. Holy shit, I am glad I did. This book is weird in the best ways. It is iterative and fractured, like grief. And Hart uses cartoon images as refrains, recontextualizing them in each presentation and literally showing us how he thinks.
I thought I was going to teach "[b:The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye|25733982|The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye|Sonny Liew|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1439837421s/25733982.jpg|21998008]," but now I think I might teach this. It does similar things with nesting stories and destabilizing reality, and I think it might be more accessible to my students. Maybe? I'll just have to poll some kids real casual like to see which book they would rather dig into and rip apart.
Also, I cried for half of it. Goddamn.