A memoir of grief, food, and family. Korean-American Michelle Zauner was born in Seoul but grew up in Eugene, Oregon. She was struggling to make her indie-music dreams come true when her mother was diagnosed with cancer. The next year was an exhausting struggle against the illness and the medical system, which consumed their whole family. Michelle relates many memories that center on food, ones from her childhood trips to Korea, ones from trying to nourish her dying mother, and ones from after her mother's passing as she tries to recreate the tastes from her memories. Well written and emotional.

A quick, easy read. I've only ever listened to one or two episodes of "Call Your Girlfriend", the podcast which the two authors host, yet I still enjoyed this book quite a bit both as the history of one specific friendship and also as a nonfiction book on the general important of friendship.

Not what I expected from the cover. This is less a guidebook and more a philosophical questioning into sex, sexuality and relationships. Thought-provoking.

This is one of the best books I have ever read about science, and about a life. Jahren is a passionate and witty writer, and in this book she tells stories beginning with her strict Minnesota childhood in the 1970s, ending with her current career as a tenured professor and researcher at the University of Hawaii. She has loved both plants and the scientific process for as long as she can remember, but it was a long and hard road to turn those two obsessions into a livelihood. Jahren writes of working long hours as a hospital runner to pay for college; of meeting her best friend and future research partner in grad school on a soil study field trip; of upending her entire life multiple times to move thousands of miles on the promise of funding to build her own lab. There are short chapters woven through that explain with vivid, careful detail the lifestyle stages of a tree, and each stage is mirrored in Jahren's only human development. She doesn't shy way from discussing her own manic depression, the difficulty of her pregnancy, and the discrimination she faced as a woman in her field. But she also relishes in the joys of discovery, of breakthroughs, of adventure, of a fairy-tale like love romance and an eternal striving towards being her own truest, purest self. This book is going to join my self of favorite memoirs. I highly recommend it!

EDIT: Read it out loud to my dad on a road trip in 2021. A very good book to read while traveling.

This was fantastic! Gorgeously drawn, funny, smart. Charles is NOT excited to move to Echo City into a decaying hotel his parents plan to renovate. He's even more freaked out to discover the hotel is home to actual living monsters. But as soon as he meets Margo Maloo, Monster Mediator, his aspiring journalist skills are activated. He wants to know everything there is to know about this hidden community in Echo City, to follow Margo around on cases and possibly publish the results on his blog. Charles is brave, but the threat of being eaten by an ogre is real! Very excited to read the rest of the books in this series.

Three mermaids recklessly transform themselves into humans in a quest for alcohol. What they didn't expect to find on land was capitalism or the identity crises that come from being stuck in a body that's not your own. Luckily, a kind human takes them under her wing and lets them crash in her apartment as they attempt to get jobs. Tooth and Pearl take the challenges in stride, but deep-sea-eel-witch Eez feels trapped and panicky cut off from the magic of the ocean. The book starts rather silly and light and I was very glad that it got more deep and emotional as it went a long. Absolutely gorgeous artwork- Kat Leyh is one of my favorites cartoonists out there.

Very short, very easy to read. The art is body and gender inclusive, very warm and friendly. It brings up many good topics, but I did find myself wishing the book overall had been a little longer and gone into slightly more detail. Maybe someday Andrews will pen a more exhaustive guide!

A quick, cute children's comic about fame, social media, and friendship. Love the illustrations from spouse team Eleanor David and Drew Weing!

I started reading this story as a webcomic and was then was very delighted to see it released in print! Nyneve has grown up in the witch kingdom of Hyalin, where the strength of a person's magic is linked to the length of their hair. Short-haired witched are teased and shunned, but witches whose hair is too long are deemed dangerous, potential enemies of the state. Nyneve's long-haired father was burned by the Witch Guard when she was young, and ever since then she's hidden her long hair. But she and her classmates have reached the age of mandatory conscription and when she is chosen as a future member of the Guard, her whole life is thrown into chaos. This volume is just the beginning of what is clearly going to be a big story-- indeed, there are over 400 pages posted to the webcomic site (https://www.witchycomic.com/) and I was happy to see volume 2 is slated for released in early 2022. I love the art and the coloring and I'm very curious to see where this story goes!

A very sweet short story about a shape-shifting child who doesn't want to be just one thing, but to change their form day to day to match how they feel.