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BBGMBC: Our May 2012 Book is…Are You My Mother? By Allison Bechdel

And our book selection for the month of May 2012 is…

Are You My Mother By Alison Bechdel

I thought it would be refreshing to try a graphic novel.

It’s quite likely that many members of the group do not typically read graphic novels (though I could be wrong!), so this should be an adventure!

Also, my ten-year-old daughter loves graphic novels and my husband likes them, too. So this should be an educational experience for me, since I’ve never read a graphic novel and probably would not without some prodding…like this. However, just for clarification, this is a graphic memoir, not a graphic novel. 🙂

Alison Bechdel is coming to Powell’s this month. Here’s her complete tour schedule for those who are interested.

In the meantime, happy reading!

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  • Rebecca Schorr May 1, 2012, 5:31 am

    Oh I am so excited!!!  I have found that graphic novels can be a great way to change things up as far as reading is concerned!!

  • Sue LeBreton May 1, 2012, 7:20 am

    Oh it will be a challenge. The small type has kept me away in the past. My son will be so pleased I am reading a graphic novel.

  • Toni Morgan May 16, 2012, 10:17 am

    Suggest we read In the Kingdom of Men by Kim Barnes.  Here is book review.  It will be out the end of this month.
    Kim Barnes
    I “liked” the link but LOVE this Starred Review in Booklist! I couldn’t ask for a more thoughtful reading of IN THE KINGDOM OF MEN… “Barnes brings her own childhood struggles with a strict, isolating Pentecostalism to her enrapturing third novel about a tough, fearless Oklahoma girl raised with religious austerity and misogyny, who finds herself living in a luxurious yet oppressive American oil… company enclave in 1970 in Saudi Arabia. . . . Barnes animates a magnetizing cast of cosmopolitan characters, lingers over descriptions of food and clothing, dramatizes cultural contrasts and sexual tension, and brings this intense and compassionate novel of corporate imperialism, prejudice, corruption, and yearning to such gorgeously vivid, suspenseful life that the story’s darkness is perfectly balanced by the keen wit and blazing pleasure of its telling. A veritable Mad Men of the desert, with the depth of a Graham Greene novel.”–Donna SeamanSee More