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Carregando... I Know You Riderde Leslie Stein
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This isn't a low score because this memoir is about abortion - it's just that it wasn't as deep or moving as I thought it might be. It just kinda slogged along with no clear direction. I love memoirs that are told via graphic novel so I picked up I Know You Rider and had high hopes. It was very slow paced and the illustrations sometimes made it confusing to tell who was who and I just didn't click with the story. It's brave to put your story out there like the author did - especially about such a polarizing topic - but it was just hard to engage or care about the story. Which I feel bad about because it's a memoir. I would love to try out more graphic novels by this author - this one just wasn't it for me. ( ) At first I thought this was going to be another series of real-life vignettes like the other book by Leslie Stein that I have read, Present, but slowly the elements pull together to recount an abortion the author had and how that caused her to focus and reflect on the concept of reproduction as well as her own path to happiness. It's an honest and thoughtful work that steadily drew me in. My only reservations are with the art. I have trouble connecting with Stein's nearly faceless characters, their expressions practically emoticons -- rendered with a couple dots and short lines -- floating in a wide white space under what seem to be floating wigs. It doesn't help that the author prefers medium shots that always draw focus to the face, with most panels having just one or maybe two characters at a time. If you can get past this stylistic choice, it's a pretty good book. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
A candid and philisophical memoir tackling abortion and the complex decision to reprouceI Know You Rider is Leslie Stein's rumination on the many complex questions surrounding the decision to reproduce. Opening in an abortion clinic, the book accompanies Stein through a year of her life, steeped in emotions she was not quite expecting while also looking far beyond her own experiences. She visits with a childhood friend who's just had twins and is trying to raise them as environmentally as possible, chats with another who's had a vasectomy to spare his wife a lifetime of birth control, and spends Christmas with her own mother, who aches for a grandchild.Through these melodically rendered conversations with loved ones and strangers, Stein weaves one continuing conversation with herself. She presents a sometimes sweet, sometimes funny, and always powerfully empathetic account, asking what makes a life meaningful and where we find joy amid other questions--most of which have no solid answers, much like real life.Instead of focusing on trauma, I Know You Rider is a story about unpredictability, change, and adaptability, adding a much-needed new perspective to a topic often avoided or discussed through a black and white lens. People are ever changing, contradicting themselves, and having to deal with unforeseen circumstances: Stein holds this human condition with grace and humor, as she embraces the cosmic choreography and keeps walking, open to what life blows her way. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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