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Always the Almost by Edward Underhill
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
3.5
It Rhymes With Takei by George Takei
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Thank you to Netgalley for providing me an e-arc for an honest review.
A powerful and emotional graphic novel memoir of living through history.
Takei has lived through so much history and has experienced the injustices of time like being imprisoned in the Japanese internment camps during WWII and living through Operation Wetback and the Aids Epidemic. These moments of history (plus others) are navigated with the utmost respect and emotional strife that strikes a resonating core to our collective human experience. It saddened me to feel the weight of Takei's lived experience, particularly the weight of hiding who he truly is for majority of his life. But it also filled me with immense joy to see glimpses of his love story with Brad in his later years, proving that it's never too late to find your soulmate.
We also see Takei's riveting acting career; from his roots in voice acting to his most influential role as Sulu in Star Trek. And in between acting gigs, his activism is effortlessly part of his life from political campaigns to theater start ups!
If there is only one memoir you read this year, let it be this one. It's a MUST read that will leave you with tears of hope in your heart.
A powerful and emotional graphic novel memoir of living through history.
Takei has lived through so much history and has experienced the injustices of time like being imprisoned in the Japanese internment camps during WWII and living through Operation Wetback and the Aids Epidemic. These moments of history (plus others) are navigated with the utmost respect and emotional strife that strikes a resonating core to our collective human experience. It saddened me to feel the weight of Takei's lived experience, particularly the weight of hiding who he truly is for majority of his life. But it also filled me with immense joy to see glimpses of his love story with Brad in his later years, proving that it's never too late to find your soulmate.
We also see Takei's riveting acting career; from his roots in voice acting to his most influential role as Sulu in Star Trek. And in between acting gigs, his activism is effortlessly part of his life from political campaigns to theater start ups!
If there is only one memoir you read this year, let it be this one. It's a MUST read that will leave you with tears of hope in your heart.
I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com by Kimberly Lemming
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
4.0
Thank you to Netgalley for providing me an e-arc for an honest review.
A fun romp of a story with a talking lion, 2 hot aliens, and 1 overtly optimistic intern.
The sci-fi elements mixed with romance tropes WORKED so well in this. I was laughing so much at the absurdity of the "science experiment" Dory is kidnapped. I mean, the folks responsible didn't even research well and now you've got extinct fauna and dinosaurs mixed with humans and dandelions!
At first the story was a bit confusing, but it mirrors Dory's own confusion within her reality. I also found that the beginnings of the romance was too fast for me. But overall, this is so FUN in Kimberly Lemming's signature style.
I look forward to reading the next installment. I already have guesses as to who the fmc may be!
A fun romp of a story with a talking lion, 2 hot aliens, and 1 overtly optimistic intern.
The sci-fi elements mixed with romance tropes WORKED so well in this. I was laughing so much at the absurdity of the "science experiment" Dory is kidnapped. I mean, the folks responsible didn't even research well and now you've got extinct fauna and dinosaurs mixed with humans and dandelions!
At first the story was a bit confusing, but it mirrors Dory's own confusion within her reality. I also found that the beginnings of the romance was too fast for me. But overall, this is so FUN in Kimberly Lemming's signature style.
I look forward to reading the next installment. I already have guesses as to who the fmc may be!