Friday Reads: graphic memoirs & graphic novels, in translation & by Indigenous & queer authors
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- In this booktube episode I talk about memoirs & speculative fiction, in audio & comics format, from Spain, Denmark, Finland, USA, Indonesia & Canada’s Arctic, plus eating beets & visiting a rose garden #LGBTQ #EisnerAwards
00:00 intro - a beet feast!
02:45 DNF: The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft (audio read by Rebecca Lowman)
03:59 🇪🇸 Ashes by Álvaro Ortiz; translated from Spanish by Eva Ibarzabal; published by Top Shelf
06:15 🏳️🌈🇮🇩 Lunar Boy by Jes Wibowo and Cin Wibowo; published by Harper Alley
07:35 🏳️🌈🇺🇸 Peepee-Poopoo #69 by Caroline Cash; published by Silver Sprocket
10:04 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Mangilaluk: A Graphic Memoir About Friendship, Perseverance and Resiliency by Bernard Andreason [Inuvialuit] and Alan Gallo; published by Inhabit Education Books
12:48 🇨🇦 The Scarf and the Butterfly: A Graphic Memoir of Hope and Healing by Monica Ittusardjuat [Inuit], Coco Apunnguaq Lynge [Kalaaleq-Danish] and Scott Plumbe; published by Inhabit Education Books
14:46 🇫🇮 Memento Mori by Tiitu Takalo; translated by Maria Schroderus; published by Oni Press
18:34 🇫🇮 Single Mothering by Anna Härmälä; published by Nobrow
20:27 🇩🇰🎧 Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen; translated from Danish by Tiina Nunnally & Michael Favala Goldman; audiobook read by Stine Wintlev; published by Penguin Classics
25:00 Outro: Rose garden
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Other mentions:
2024 Eisner nominations: www.comic-con.org/awards/eisn...
I talk about Darrin Bell’s The Talk in this episode: A Queer & BIPOC authors edition of Friday Reads Dec 22, plus: Is it a good translation?
• A Queer & BIPOC author...
Wow you're on a roll with books this week! A beet feast sounds like so much fun and a great way to get together with friends!
@@lindseyreads5450 Yes, the beet feast was fun. And delicious! Are you a fan of beets?
It’s unusual for me to read so much in comics format in a short time, but that’s what I have been in the mood for lately. I also have a couple of regular print novels that I am currently buddy reading. I think the graphic novel spree will continue because I have a big stack checked out from the library.
Loved The Talk! 🌹📚
@@toniweller6008 Hi Toni! I heard that Darrin Bell is working on another memoir. I will be looking for it. 😊
🌹🌹🌹 thanks for the video!
@@becauseimbored777777 you are most welcome. Thanks for watching!
I love graphic memoirs! Memento Mori and The Talk are on their way to me from the library. I'll look at that award list, too.
@@hartereads Woohoo! High five! Do you have a favourite graphic memoir?
Hi Lindy. I hope your dinner went well. I’m intrigued by the Irena Rey book. I’ll give it a try.
@@tanyam6197 I sincerely hope that Irena Rey works for you. Not enough fungi in it for me. 😉
Our dinner went really well and the beet chocolate cake was particularly noteworthy. Thyme blossoms sprinkled on the ganache topping were the perfect final touch.
Hi Lindy. I hope your beet feast went well! That cake sounds so good to me. And thanks for showing the roses. I've been to those gardens but it was in the late fall. Still gorgeous, but a different vibe of the fall colors. We have some rose bushes in our yard (trying to figure out how to tend to them) and I saw Japanese beetles on them this morning. They say the only way to get rid of them is to pluck them off and put them in hot water and dish soap. So that's what I did. I guess that will take up some of my summer hours now.
@@anenthusiasticreader Sonya, the beet feast was so much fun! I looked for a beet chocolate cake recipe online and there are many. Initially I chose one posted by David Lebovitz because I trust his recipes, but then I saw that he uses 5 eggs in it. I’m sensitive to eggs (I can tolerate one in a cake, but definitely not 5) so I searched for a vegan recipe instead. That one used flax meal, olive oil and whole wheat flour, so maximum healthy! I decided to counter the flax flavour with a ganache topping plus a sprinkling of thyme blossoms. (I combine thyme with chocolate in ice cream sometimes; it’s a nice combo.)
I’m glad you enjoyed the rose garden footage. Butchart Garden changes every time I visit and I feel lucky to take advantage of my yearly pass and visit often.
Hello Lindy, I had never heard about the residential schools of Canada before I joined the community. I don’t think it’s easy to get these memoirs in Hawaii, but I’m definitely going to try.. If not, I’m sure I can find a copy online. The scarf in the butterfly sounds like a good place to start. I prefer to read women’s memoirs in general. The first graphic memoir I read was. “Can’t we talk about something more pleasant?“ By Roz Chast. I loved it, but a few others I read afterwards weren’t as powerful to me. Then I started reading suggestions by various booktubers in the community and enjoyed quite a lot of them.
When I remember, reading is “welcome to Saint hell”. I enjoyed that one quite a lot and learned a lot as well.
Next year, I won’t miss the roses! Aloha dear friend
@@MarilynMayaMendoza Yes! Next year come in July and enjoy the roses and the warm weather!
@@MarilynMayaMendoza Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Fun Home by Alison Bechdel are two excellent graphic novels by women.
@@lindysmagpiereads I read "fun Home". It was very good. Aloha.
The Copenhagen Trilogy sounds great! 🌹
@@sreilly66 Yes, and it was serendipitously a good pairing with another book I’m currently reading: The Diviners by Margaret Laurence. Both are about women writers who follow the beat of their own drum.
I hope the dinner went well! I hope you report back. Mangilaluk sounds like a tough read but one people should read. I'll check it out. I'm enjoy graphic memoirs.
@@ariannefowler455 The dinner was fun! Everyone kept adding beet puns to the conversation. And the food was fantastic. 😊
Do you cry when you read sad books? Let me know if you cry at any point while reading Mangilaluk. He has an amazing life story.
Hi Lindy, I love graphic novels and memoirs. You always give me new suggestions.
@@59cubanita Alina, you are so nice! Thanks for watching. 🥰
Thank you for reviewing these books. I was happy to be able to find Ashes at my public library but the residential school memoirs are harder to find in the US. I enjoyed your video and hope your beet feast goes well! Computer is somehow not allowing roses...
@@elizabethjonczyk6818 Elizabeth, thanks for watching. I hope you enjoy Ashes. It’s a shame that the residential school memoirs I mentioned aren’t more widely available. Is it a matter of them not having publication rights where you live? If that’s not the problem, could you request that your library purchase them?
@@lindysmagpiereads No, it just seems that the library system hasn't ordered them. I have put in a request to purchase.
I am seriously struggling with The Extinction of Irena Rey and wondering if I’m just not philosophical or literary to understand it.
@@lindaleehall I’m afraid I don’t have words of encouragement for you because I just couldn’t stick with it, even after giving it plenty of my time and attention. 😕
What a fun beet-filled dinner! When you read digital versions of graphic novels do you use a tablet? To get the full layout?
@@homolibrariensis8132 Yes, I got an iPad especially so that I could enjoy digital comics. I love it for that, and also it’s much easier to edit my RUclips videos on the iPad instead of my phone, which is what I used originally.