“The Secret to Superhuman Strength”: 5 Reasons to Read
“The Secret to Superhuman Strength” is unusually good and a great pick if you don’t often read graphic novels.
Graphic Literature (Comics!)
Helping Your Parents Age Well is Hard. Why “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?”
Why I read Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant To be perfectly honest, I read this book because it’s one of the very few graphic novels listed in James Mustich’s 1000 Books to Read BeforeYou Die. I don’t know if this book would have jumped out at me without that. And honestly, reading …
Going to Jerusalem with Guy Delisle
Life in The Holy Land & Why I read Jerusalem I wish I had gotten the chance to hang out with Guy Delisle, but even if the 40 or so miles between Amman, Jordan, where I lived, and Jerusalem didn’t take hours to cross, he left several years before I arrived. When I look at …
See if you can handle Jim Ottaviani’s Graphic Biographies of Scientists.
My level is Primates. Jim Ottaviani had been writing science comics/graphic novels since the mid 90’s, starting by self publishing his own work. His work is in graphic form, but I can tell you, they are not necessarily easy reads because he addresses very complex material. I made it about halfway through his book Hawking…even …
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Lucy Knisley’s So-called Graphic Life
Over the last couple of months, I have read several books by Lucy Knisley, but for one reason or another didn’t feel like they were right for The Lois Level. But then I realized that since I KEEP READING them, there must be something there. Basically, her work gets on my nerves a little bit …