Lissa Treiman

I love everything about Giant Days, the writing, the art and the stories but most of all I love the characters - Daisy, Esther and Susan, a trio of the best and brightest humanity has to offer, or at least the gothest, angriest and wettest humanity has to offer. New found friends in their first year at university, they deal with the high drama and low comedy of life in their own inimitable way. Finishing this first volume I realised what it reminded me of most was Alan Plater's Beiderbecke show more TV series, lots of deadpan wit and common human decency in a funny old world, and in our dark and dodgy times it does us all some good to know someone's keeping that flag flying. show less

Quite possibly the most adorable and hilarious comedy about three girls in college you are ever likely to read. Esther, Susan and Daisy so wonderfully human and lovable, the dialogue is sharp and thoughtful and clever and the stories are a pure delight. Good comedy is hard to do, but when it's done this well it's joyous and uplifting and deeply satisfying.

Daisy, Susan, and Esther are the girls I wish I had met in the first three weeks of university - it would have made for a far more enjoyable experience had I had them nearby to hang out with! They are, quite possibly, my new favorite friendship group in a book/graphic novel, right up there with the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, a classification a don't take lightly.

For quite some time I've been struggling to find works of fiction that are written from the female college student show more perspective and the amount of literature out there is, still, in my 10th year of searching, shockingly slim, and that which has been written struggles to stay in print. It makes me wonder, why, if everyone seems to look back on their university days so fondly, do people not write about it? Often times, I get asked at the bookstore, what is the best book to read about going of to college? Are there any books at all? And most days I have to answer, well, yes, but we they're all out of print, or yes, but I can only get you a used copy because no one seems to want to read them anymore.

We (collective young female readers who are no longer in high school) need more writers like John Allison (and I never thought it would be a man giving my generation of women a strong voice) to share his writing about the university experience - we need more and more young women to write stories about their lives in college to share them with those younger than them. For the Millennials and iGen who struggle more with anxiety as a whole than any generation I've seen or known about before, we need to help eliminate the mystery and anxiety of the university experience by providing greater access to information in unique ways, beyond just the stereotypical college prep guide.

And I need to take my own advice and write that book that I keep saying I'll write one of these days about my female hockey goalie in college... show less

Super fun and adorable while still dealing with very interesting and important topics like drug use and the objectification of women on college campuses. A real delight to read.