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... discovered was Alison Bechdel, who writes/draws the Dykes to watch out for comic. I also read her graphic novel Fun home.
And Rita Mae Brown, though that discovery started in Dec. 08. Where I come from, everyone's read Rubyfruit jungle, but it turns out she wrote lots of ... 67. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
68. Valencia
69. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
70. The Femme Mystique
Phew, it's been a while since I've updated... LOTS going on, but mostly good. Only five to go! ... not gibe with the LT population at large (somewhat explicit, etc.) but I HIGHLY recommend Bechdel's graphic novel memoir, Fun Home, for something emotional, provocative, and a different kind of read. ... was willing to do without other things (like food) to buy them in original versions. I'm thinking they
I hope you like Fun Home and Stone Butch Blues too. I loved them both. ... a Face by Markus Wolf
- Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
- Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L'Amour
- Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
- Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl ... by Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen.
Also on the list are Beebo Brinker, Angels in America, Faggots, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Girls, Visions, and Everything, Valencia, and Stone Butch Blues.
I had this prof before and liked her approach, plus I'd not read ... 21. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
(Re-read) 
BOOK 49: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
A memoir in graphic novel form by the author of the Essential Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip.
Bechdel's family were pretty dysfunctional. Her ...
The original post is a little stale, but the book club is going strong!
For those who are interested, we've done Fun home, The price of Salt, Lois Lenz, Lesbian secretary, Highsmith, Brass, The Night Watch, Orphan Gunner, Olivia, Bastard out of Carolina and a few others I can't ... ... I have Persepolis, but so does everyone else, and past that my "graphic novel memoirs" are pretty thin on the ground (Fun Home, and that's it) and my "Middle East" books are nonexistent. ... (128)
234. Startled By His Furry Shorts - Louise Rennison (304)
235. Decoding the Heavens - Jo Marchant (336)
236. Fun Home - Alison Bechdel (232)
June stats: 37 books, 9492 pages
YTD: 236 books, 69,462 pages ... love for Pratchett. I keep meaning to pick up Nation but haven't yet; I should probably work on that.
Also, read Fun Home for a graduate queer theory course. Very interesting. ... that he's good at things other than Discworld. (Listened to in audio, read by the inimitable Stephen Briggs
2. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
A memoir told through the graphic novel ... ... it, though--many said it was their favorite we had read this semester. But for me, it couldn't compare to our last reading, Fun Home.
Baldwin's narration is precisely phrased and evocative, and it's quite a feat for him to pull off a female character's voice so well. I don't know if I've ever ... 29. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (category 4) ****
Since I ceased my high school-era manga escapades, I've avoided graphic novels wholesale. Not that I don't think they're worth reading, I'd just be embarrassed for someone to see me with anything resembling a comic book. This one, though, I had an ... ... our next meeting. "Costumes, but no rehearsals" was one proposal.
Before we got all silly, our book for discussion was Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, which I read last year. We have our best discussions when there's a range of opinions about the book in question - as there was this time; some ... ... AUDIO
63) The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie AUDIO
64) A Reliable Wife AUDIO
65) Oryx and Crake AUDIO
66) Fun Home
67) The Final Solution AUDIO
68) American Gods AUDIO
69) Homer's Odyssey AUDIO
70) The Good Thief AUDIO
71) The Romanov Bride
... Frozen In Time (review)
29. The Alienist
30. The Indifferent Stars Above (review)
31. The Strain (review)
32. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (book club)
33. Unwind
34. Into The Forest
35. The Fellowship of the Ring (audio)
36. Fragment (review)
37. Cain's Redemption (l ... ... doesn't have a whole lot of words.
If you've no objection to graphic material (I mean sexually graphic) I'd recommend Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. It's a memoir, and I think it's extraordinarily well written. ... this month. Apart from some light reading (Ultimate X-Men: World Tour, for example), I read an interesting one called Fun Home by Alison Blechdel and I'm in the middle of a re-read of Watchmen and an odd multi-plotted one called Tricked by Alex Robinson.
Watchmen, is, of course an ... ... like the lesser of two evils.
If "manga" is intrinsically fiction in your mind, then yes, manga beats pets; but I think Fun Home is memoir first, graphic novel second. I sure wouldn't want it next to the Calvin and Hobbes.
... people ...
The Jeanette Winterson article came to me via Alison Bechdel's blog, which I statrted following after Fun Home was published. Worth a look: http://www.dykestowatchoutfor.com/ ... of Hugo Cabret
The Arrival or anything by Shaun Tan
Ethel and Ernest or almost anything by Raymond Briggs
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Persepolis
... : a graphic novel 2.09
3. Chicken with plums 05.09
4. Arab in America 05.09
5. American born Chinese 06.09
6. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 10.09
7. Post secret 10.09
8. Coraline: The Graphic Novel 10.09
9. The Best American Comics 2008 10.09
Real-Life
1. Raising an ... ... of politics, nostalgia, and multigenerational family saga. I also highly recommend her memoir in graphic novel form, Fun Home. ... Dreams, Richard Kagan (completed 3/02/09) **
5. Assata: An Autobiography, Assata Shakur (completed 3/25/09) **
6. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (completed 4/13/09) ****
7. If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin (completed 4/21/09) *
8. Franco, Sheelagh Ellwood (completed 4/22/09) ** ... Fun Home:A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel. It is a beautifully crafted book. ... to outrageous activism. Call it moderate activism, and begin to do it! You won't be sorry.
Rating - 5 stars
47. Fun Home – Alison Bechdel
This is a graphic novel (very graphic in parts) about the coming out of a lesbian and the discovery that her dad was gay as well. The ... --> 80
I think my reaction to Fun Home was the same as I had when my daughter, then probably in middle school introduced me to anime. She had been reading Japanese comics with pictures of nude people in a hot tub. I guess it was (and I'm really trying to find the right word because both the ... >42 SqueakyChu -- I'm curious why you think Fun Home is disturbing - is it the frank treatment of gay issues and sex? I loved the book and it was my first graphic novel. I think Alison Bechdel is brilliant.
I read Pobby and Dingan yesterday, a sweet little novel about imaginary friends who ... ... and Diane DiMassa when I picked it up to glance at. It is my second graphic novel and it is VERY intense. It makes Fun Home by Allison Bechdel which was my first (SqueakyChu - I didn't read your advice in time!) look like an Archie and Veronica.
Finally, I'm still continuing Jesu ... ... at Home, an excellent book from LT's Early Reviewer program.
I also am reading a BookCrossing bookring graphic novel, Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. The subject matter and how it is handled and drawn (very graphic) by this graphic artist is jarring! Certainly very different from the ... "But I hate pink."
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
"What did you do with your barrette?" "I used to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children , and his children like furniture."
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
"Isn't this illegal?" "Dad worked in the inner sanctum, the embalming room."
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
"No comments on his appearance. Is that understood?" ... TE
1. The City of Ember, DuPrau
2. The Graveyard Book, Gaiman
3. Fun Home, Brecdel
4. Castle Waiting ,Medley
5. Witch Child, Celia Rees
6. Beauty Sleep, Camer ... 33) Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
****1/2
This singular book, through uncompromising honesty, artistic skill, and thoughtful composition, has solidified the medium of graphic narrative as a serious art form not to be taken lightly. A awe-inspiring tale on the importance of ... ... by Greg Wharton and Ian Philips
Exile and Pride by Eli Clare
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Fumbling Toward Divinity by Craig Hickman
Angels in America by Tony Kushner I like mostly anything that Alan Moore does. I'm also a fan of Fun Home and The Hollow Grounds and oh so many others that I will hopefully remember to post about later.. ... After all, Maus (the poster child of the "literary graphic novel" won a "special award" from the Pulitzer committee, and Fun Home got a great deal of recognition two years ago. Anyone suggesting that these works are suitable only for the semiliterate is either a hopeless curmudgeon or ... #12 I don't love graphic novels in general, but I did love Alison Bechdel's Fun Home. Maybe because I've read Dykes to Watch Out For for a long time and was already familiar with her art... ... finished reading, in quick succession, my first two graphic novels: Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home. They were both terrific. I'm glad I tried them. I'm wondering what took me so long!
Now I'm reading Winifred Holtby's South Riding. I'm enjoying it very much. ... 68. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
69. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A. N. Roquelaure
70. The Porcelain Dove, or, Constancy's Reward by Delia Sherman
71. Havemercy by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett
72. Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction ... ... very much. It's so much fun putting good books written by women--everything from Arlington Park to Purple Hibiscus and Fun Home--into other women's hands and saying, "Read this. Just do. You won't regret it." It's really a wonderful experience. But of course I feel like I have so much more ... Fun Home by Alison Bechdel is a good one.
Also, many of Larry Gonick's works are nonfiction, but are not necessarily "graphic novels" depending on your definition. The Cartoon History of the Universe series is delightful. I second Fun Home; that book was awesome.
Spiral into Horror is an awesome 3-book horror manga series. While I wouldn't call it feminist, the main character is a brave young woman who is not overtly sexualized. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel and the Persepolis series by Marjane Satrapi are two I'd highly recommend. The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan
The Birth House by Ami McKay
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
White Corridor by Christopher Fowler ...
Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody
Here if You Need Me by Kate Braestrup*
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel*
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
Name All the Animals by Alison Smith*
The Liars Club* and Che ... I second the recommendation for Alison Bechdel's Fun Home. It's a graphic novel, which makes it a quick read, but it has the substance of a well-written novel. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
The Way the Family Got Away by Michael Kimball
The First Man by Albert Camus
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin
A Heaven of Others by Joshua Cohen ... just found this group, so commenting late in this thread...)
I second (third?) the recommendation of Bechdel's memoir Fun Home. Very well written & drawn, self-aware, and tragicomic.
I also liked Jessica Abel's La Perdida. It's perhaps the most traditionally novelistic graphic novel I' ... ... Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)
67. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
68. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)
69. Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)
70. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadi ... I just read Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel for my Adult Services LIS class and did a booktalk on it this week. I thoroughly enjoyed, and highly recommend it. ... the Starving Class by Sam Shepard *
23) Golden Child by David Henry Hwang *
24) Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine *
25) Fun Home by Alison Bechdel *
26) Angels in America by Tony Kushner *
27) The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics by Dan Styer *
28) Q.E.D. by Richard Feynman
29) T ... The Ice House by Minette Walters
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Allison Bechdel
Home Girl: Building a Dream House on a Lawless Block by Judith Matloff
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 12) Alison Bechdel - Fun Home (232 pages)
Ok, this was awesome. Got to love a graphic novel that sends you scurrying toward your OED.
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I may get to Blankets next. Or Watership Down. We'll see what strikes my motherfuggin' fancy. ... pages)
Entertaining, if a bit heavy-handed, even 45 years removed from the threat of imminent nuclear doom.
Reading Fun Home now. 8. fun home This is a long shot, since this was a graphic novel, but is it Fun Home: a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel? ... 8: Wolves by Bill Willingham
12. American virgin vol. 1: head by Steven T. Seagle and Becky Cloonan
13. Fun home: a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
14. The geography of bliss by Eric Weiner
15. American virgin vol. 2: going down by Steven T. Seagle and ... >>teelgee: There were so many unexpected layers in Fun Home, from Proust to Fitzgerald. I loved it. Highly recommended. omph - I LOVED Fun Home. Bechdel is genius. ... I know Maureen Johnson spends a fair amount of time in London, so I suspect she's made it to the other locales, too.
JF--Fun Home Only for the oldest teens--the graphic biography of Alison's coming out as a lesbian. Excellent!
CR--Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Now that I ... ... non-fiction, I strongly recommend Sherrill Tippins' February house and you should absolutely get hold of Alison Bechdel's Fun home. In the last week I have been reading Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See for a book club elsewhere on LT, Fun home by Alison Bechdel just because it was so well reviewed, and The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway for Book Club at my library. Am I alone in thinking ... JF--unwind by Neal Shusterman totally creepy!
CR: Squirrel Mother by Megan Kelso
CR: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel I'm trying to increase my graphic novel literacy. Not having a lot of luck. I tried a couple volumes of Fables and decided it was too much work and not nearly ... ... I Live Now (D)
11. Katherine Hannigan- Ida B (A)
12. Marisa de los Santos- Love Walked In (D)
13. Alison Bechdel- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (B)
14. Judith Levine- Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping (D)
15. Gabrielle Zevin- Elsewhere (A)
16. Paulo Coelho- Devil and Miss ... ... enger
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (I had to pick 6...I couldn't leave off Harry!)
Non-Fiction:
Ex Libris
Fun Home
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Honorable mention must go to Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging and the rest in the Georgia Nickleson ... ... Emerald City by Rajiv Chadrasekaran
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Grace Eventually by Anne Lamott
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Honorable Mention: Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup
Fiction:
Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson ... ... Tortoise
TBR:
Dawkins's The Selfish Gene and The Ancestor's Tale
The book your church doesn't want you to read
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
The New Joy of Sex
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Democracy in America
Living with Darwin
Monkey Girl
Th ... ... 2, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. It was interesting to see a glimpse of the daily lives of Iranian women.
#255: Fun Home by Alison Bedchel
A memoir in graphic novel form, with the author weaving together her father's death, her coming to terms with being a lesbian, and her childhood ... ... and brightly coloured clothing though. Bleargh.
I am a Kay fan so again, the bookmark is still placed in this one.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (What is up with the author touchstones?) - The Proust chapter was good enough but I didn't see what was so exciting about a ... My favorites are...
-Michael Chabon's Escapist series
-Fun Home
-Persepolis
-The Best American Comics 2006
-I just read Robot Dreams. Check it out.
You guys have convinced me to finally check out the Sandman series.
Hey...if so many of us have read some of these ... ... World
Persepolis
Burying Sandwiches
Grickle
Epileptic
Blankets
Goodbye, Chunky Rice
Jimmy Corrigan
Fun Home
Mother, Come Home
Dogs and Water so here's the good stuff that i've read so far:
Maus
Palestine
Pyongyang
Shenzhen
Exit Wounds
Dogs and Water ... world of Chuck.
Also, since you seem to be a fan of graphic novels, might I suggest you check out Alison Bechdel's Fun Home or The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation. I've only read an excerpt from the first one, but her Dykes to Watch Out For is a brilliant, in-depth comic and The 9/1 ... ... start a Graphic Novel book club here, and choose a work to read this month?
Basically I'm suggesting a toss up between Fun Home and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The author of Fun Home is a woman, so you can't complain that I haven't included an option for the female portion of ... ... some of the stuff I've been putting off, as well as to further my reading list of non-fiction.
Civil Disobedience, Fun Home, Mein Kampf, The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You To Read, and The Joy of Sex shall be my list.
Interestingly enough, a lot of the ones that looked good ... ... buy Midnighters 3, but I am restraining myself from reading it.
Remembered another I read earlier this year
19. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
I have some real graphic novel gems picked out for September:
Apollo's Song by Osamu Tezuka
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
and
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Hopefully somebody posts what they think about this reading list, I can see tumbleweed rolling around in this group... ... (Dresden Files book 1) Loved it. I'm saving the rest for rainy days.
52. The Pilot’s wife by Anita Shreve.
53. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. Funny, great book. My first graphic novel.
54. To Ride Hell’s Chasm by Janny Wurts.
55. Mountain Man Dance
56. An Woman of Unce ... ... Brown
For Esme- With Love and Sqaulor by J.D. Salinger
Continental Aesthetics: Romanticism to Postmodernism
Fun Home: a family tragicomic: Alison Bechdel >86 emaestra -- I loved Fun Home, it was also my first experience with a graphic novel. I was very taken with it; I think Alison Bechdel is a genius. Last week I read On Chesil Beach, which I loved. I also read Fun Home, my first foray into the graphic novel genre. It felt a little like cheating to be done so quickly. Last night I started Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. I only recently discovered Murakami with Norwegian ... 43. Fun Home: A Family TRagicomic by Alison Bechdel In order of reading:
Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel
The Sunset Limited, by Cormac McCarthy
Old Filth, by Jane Gardam
A Clash of Kings, by George R.R. Martin
Citizen Vince, by Jess Walter ... mostly tears, but it was my first graphic novel, and got me hooked.
And if you liked Gemma Bovery you might also like Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. 1. The Brothers K by David James Duncan (2)
2. Funhome: a Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (1)
3. A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield (2)
4. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan (2)
5. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (1)
... Acts, Woolf
34 Trilogy, H.D.,
35 Orlando, Woolf,
36 Three Guineas, Woolf,
37 Voyage Out, Woolf, (2 times)
38 Fun Home, Bechdel,
39 Landscapes of a Distant Mother, Said
40 Family History, Sackville-West
41 Diamond Age, Stephenson
42 Shriek, Vandermeer
43 Blood Child, ... Just finished Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas and am now reading Fun Home by Alison Bechdel ... for a long time, and Fables and Y: The Last Man are a feast.
For the more literary type, I HIGHLY recommend Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. (It got me to reread Ulysses!
Blankets is a touching memoir of growing pains.
And I liked Black Hole by Charles Burns. ... so she could take her husband? And they all lived happily ever after? Somehow, I don't think so.
13. Alison Bechdel- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (B)
My second forway into the world of graphic novels. Enjoyable. Clean style, nice observations and good details.
14. Judith Levin ... Re: Fun Home Isn't it a fabulous book??! I'd never read a graphic novel before but was so taken with this one, I will search out others. Bechdel is a genius. ... Jew and the Heart of the Middle East
Memoir/Autobiography
Donald Antrim, The Afterlife
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards
Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Teri Jentz, Strange Piece of Para ... In the last few days I've read Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (my first graphic novel, and a good one), The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde (with whom you can never go wrong), and The Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford (which was just a bit too analytical for my taste).
I'm ... ... Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
Plus... books I bought for the other half, but I'll probably read too...
The Plot Against America by P ... ... Almond's Which Brings Me To You
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Loved Fun Home! Currently reading Phantasmagoria by Marina Warner, who is one of my favourite feminist critics. It's a very dense, very brilliant book about the nature of the imagination and technology, with an excellent chapter on women spirit-mediums. I've been re-reading Sally Potter' ... I've started and finished the fantastic Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, am about to start Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (I've been on a brief Graphic Memoir binge) and then will attempt to finish a feast for crows by George R.R. Martin once my brain recovers from this weeks ... I finished Fun Home by Alison Bechdel this morning, and was absolutely stunned by it. I'd found myself moving away from the graphic novel as a medium, but if people are producing work of this quality ... my interest is very much rekindled.
Fun Home is autobiographical, juxtaposing her own ... Has anyone here read Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel? It's superb - literate, beautifully drawn, unflinching and unsparing and yet, at the very end, merciful. Recommended.
Others I enjoyed:
Things Can Only Get Better by John O'Farrell - hilarious account of a ... ... Gregory is still going: she is publishing a cool little zine about her cat Chicken. There is a shift to memoir, and Fun Home has been getting mentions and praise on lots of boards. But there is amazing variety out there: Scheherazade, edited by Megan Kelso has a whole bunch of ... ... reading, and also for reading repeatedly.
Right now, I'm waiting for the Buffy Season 8 comix mini-series, and enjoying Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. loved fun home and also, more fun but equally as skilled as comic art, the devil's panties. I've just picked up Baiser Vertige, an anthology of Québecois/e queer and trans writers. French is so sexy, non? Yep, I've been reading a chapter of fun home every time I go to the bookstore cause I can't afford to buy it right now. It's good.
Hehe, the last queer book I *bought* and read was The Outward Side, this gay pulp erotica novel I found for a quarter at Volunteers of America. I completely and wholeheartedly second rmharris's recommendation in #9 of Fun Home. It's simply amazing. One thing I can HIGHLY reccomend is Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. Fantastic book, and the one that will change peoples minds about the quality and seriousness of 'graphic novels' (although it's a 'graphic memoir'. Might be the best thing I've read all year ... matching work and touchstoned it.
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Because LT does a "fuzzy" search, you don't have to ... I loved Fun Home. I've been raving about it to anyone who will listen.
If you liked Autobiography of Face, may I recommend Bee Lavender's Lessons in Taxidermy? She suffered from multiple forms of childhood cancer not only to survive, but grow up and raise a family. ... a strong-willed and sharp-minded woman, with some tremendous writing ability!
In graphic novels, I really adore Fun Home by Alison Bechdel and I encourage everyone to check it out even if you don't normally read that sort of thing. It's very accessible for a general audience and ... ... slightly more than the latter. Other enjoyable memoirs I've read recently include Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres and Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. I don't usually read many graphic novels, but Fun Home is one of the best books I've read all year. ... Clark.
How Proust Can Change Your Life - Alain De Botton.
Two books mentioned in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home.
Three by Peter Handke - Peter Handke.
I liked A Moment of True Feeling.
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
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