readingpicnic's Reviews (500)

I thought this was pretty funny, and I liked the simplistic art style. Adored the ending with Björk.

Beautiful art and such lovely friendships between these ladies! Cookie giving Davene a crystal in her time of mental crisis and discouraging anti-depressants is something my mom has done to me, lol. I did think the scene with Malik was a little anticlimactic, and unless I missed something, Nisha never told the girls who called out her name on the bus? But oh well because I fell in love with these characters and would never get bored of reading about them.

The art style was pretty cool, as in weird, creepy, and ugly, but the first two stories fell flat for me. I did quite enjoy the last one, “The Tiger in Vogue.” I think having the text of the stories be in like Times New Roman on the pages didn’t leave as much of an effect as handwritten text would have compared to the level of artistry present in the graphics of this graphic novel. 

Very informative and helpful for my transition. My surgeon did say of differing things that the author presented as steadfast answers, but I got those cleared up during Q&A time.

Pretty fun and informative book. Reminded me a lot of Mostly Dead Things by Kristin Arnett. My favorite is the bunny schoolhouse. Off to watch his little documentary!

I did learn quite a lot about butts in video games and in general from reading this. I thought Vebjørn Strømmen and Tena Žigmundovac’s essays were the most interesting to read about, but I am familiar with Jimquisition, so I appreciated their work as well. I think I had very high hopes for Mario’s Butt, and it was a little bit of a let down in the very small blips of glossing over a game’s summary to include one paragraph about a character’s butt that doesn’t even get an accompanying illustration. The choice of characters to examine felt interesting and novel in some places, but repetitive and generalizing of what one’s butt size indicates about their gender or exercise levels at times? Much like the video game industry, the voices represented in this book were overwhelmingly white and male, with a few exceptions. I loved Laura’s writing in her memoir so I wish that it hadn’t fallen flat for me here. I just know it could have been so much more, but it feels like a fun project she did with friends that culminated in an interesting coffee table book…

A great nonsense book to read two days post-surgery

Adored them. Their dynamic is everything to me. I did find it a tad unbelievable that Bebe’s incredibly strict parents would change so abruptly, but oh well!

I was excited for new I Spy content published in 2024, but this is mostly reused photography from previous books that I’ve already seen that vaguely fit a “love” theme, which is a little disappointing. There were new riddles, but they didn’t quite have the charm of Jean Marzollo’s writing (this is how I found out she passed away in 2018, AHH). 

Just not feeling this audiobook right now, maybe I’ll pick it up a different time.