ashleyholstrom's Reviews (1.38k)

I wish these stories were explored further. This could have been so much more.

I always had lofty ideas of what traveling to Paris must be like, based purely on romantic movies and novels. But Lucy seems like my kind of gal, and her journal of her trip to Paris with her mother is almost exactly what I’ve imagined. Food! Shopping! Cobblestones! Cigarettes! Coffee! And, since she was about to graduate from college and become a full-fledged adult, there’s a whole lotta angst — this is a journal, after all. The best part of Lucy’s work is the detail to what she eats. Every day she draws and annotates the restaurant, table, and food everyone ate. She also very much loved the milk in France. Hence, French Milk.

From the Best Comics We Read in April 2017 at Book Riot.

A gorgeous graphic memoir about life, loss, architecture, ruins, history, and humans. When her uncle dies, Kristen Radtke sees a deserted city and becomes obsessed. She journeys across the globe looking for places that people came, saw, conquered, and left behind. Life is impermanent. Our footprints are only around for a little while. Imagine Wanting Only This is the tale of those places.

From the Best Books We Read in May 2017 at Book Riot.