My love for graphic novels began when I moved to France 29 years ago. I have always been a fan of comic strips left over from my young days of scrambling for the the comic section every Sunday morning. But, graphic novels have added something else a little special to my reading. Today’s recommendation is […]
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Reading graphic novels is such a pleasurable experience and can be an excellent way to convey simple to complex ideas. Many avid readers have a tendency to ignore graphic novels for they are perceived as maybe too simple and not profound enough. Reading them is surely very different from reading books, but it’s all a […]
I happened upon these graphic novels while waiting in line to pay for my daughter’s books for school. I was enticed by the big orange band stretched across this big, beautiful graphic novel advertising the movie release. Yes the movie release was apparently the 17th of July and it slipped right passed me. I don’t […]
You’re probably wondering what drove me to pick up these two since they don’t really correspond to what I typically read. I guess it was good old-fashioned curiosity. I’ve heard so many things about Walking Dead that I had to give it a try. It’s one of the hot American tv series at the moment and […]
I couldn’t wait to get my hands on another Marjane Satrapi graphic novel. So while browsing Amazon.fr looking for EFL books for a class I ran across Embroideries. I pressed add and in my basket it went. When I received the book, the quote on the back cover that struck me was “By turns bawdy […]
A while back I watched a snippet of Persepolis with my family. I immediately stopped when I realized it was written originally as a graphic novel. I always prefer reading the book before seeing the movie. This is a first for me reading a graphic novel and I got lucky and picked it up at […]
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