Stacking the Shelves meme is hosted by the Reading Reality blog. It was originally hosted by the Team Tynga's Reviews blog and now is solely hosted by Reading Reality. I have been anticipating the arrival of a few new graphic novels from Amazon this month to add to my comic collection.
Factory Summers was written by one of my favorite comic book authors: Guy Delisle. DeLisle is best known for his travelogues to Pyongyang, Shenzhen, Burma and Jerusalem, where he followed his wife who worked for Medecins Sans Frontieres, the French branch of Doctors Without Borders. In Factory Summers DeLisle returns to writing autobiographies. While he was a teenager, he worked in a pulp and paper factory for three summers beginning when he was 16. DeLisle worked twelve hour shifts performing physically strenuous tasks. He was the only minor working there. His father, who worked an 8 hour white collar job upstairs in the company's office, helped DeLisle get this job. The book recounts his experiences there.
I am also awaiting delivery of Let's Not Talk Anymore. This is a serious story about five generations of women from author Weng Pixin’s family, each at age 15. The lineage is full of breakages – her great grandmother Kuān is sent away from her family in South China, her grandmother Mèi is adopted by a neighbor to help with housework, and her mother Bīng is heartbroken by her father’s estrangement. Pixin’s own story centers on her feelings of isolation and her rebellion from her mother. She extends the line by envisioning a fictional future daughter, Rita, who questions her family’s legacy. This family saga spans 100 years.
Com'on post office. Where are my books?
No comments:
Post a Comment