Jan. 9th, 2013

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Currently Reading

The Indelible Alison Bechdel This has some notes about her process, miscellaneous comics, and calendar comics of Dykes to Watch Out For. It's been on my TBR shelf for a long time, and I've been in a comics/graphic novel mood. I'm enjoying it a lot.

Here We Cross, a poetry anthology of queer writers. Some WisCon names in this one!

Recently Finished

Habibi by Craig Thomas (graphic novel)

I have mixed feelings about this book. The drawing style is amazing and I loved the parts about Islamic religion, desert life, and the preciousness of water. I found other parts of it disturbing: the main character, Dodola, is a child bride in the beginning of the story, then later a prostitute and a member of a harem. So, there is a lot of dub-con sex, a lot of drawings of naked women that seemed a little creepy*, and precocious sexuality. Also: Expandspoilers )

I found Zam's plot line to be very disturbing, and I'm not entirely sure why; I'll have to think about that more and probably talk about it with other people who have read this book. It might be my own cultural lens at work.

What do you think you'll read next?

I've loaded my Kobo up with fanfic. I also recently acquired a used copy of Fire by Kristin Cashore.

*As opposed to Bechdel, who draws lots of naked women in realistic, subjective ways that seem not at all creepy to me.

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