Chicken With Plums; Please Save My Earth
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50books_poc(BTW, these are going to be my last two books on the 2007-2008 count. I was doing it from IBARW to IBARW, and I'm committing to another fifty for 2008-2009.)
58. Marjane Satrapi, Chicken with Plums
For the first three-quarters of the book I was pleading with the main character to please, please, get some treatment for depression. (Not that I know what year this was set, nor what treatments were available.) It's beautifully told, but jeez.
And then I hit the end. Oh. And then, after a delay while my brain backtracked and realized everything that had been going on: Ohhhhh...!
And so it has gone over the past week. Every once in a while, I realize again: Ohhh.
59. Saki Hiwatari, Please Save My Earth, Vol. 1
Thank you so much for the manga recommendations!
I liked this lots. Volume 1 is an excellent teaser for what looks like it will shape up to be a multi-layered story with interesting characters and some deliciously transgressive elements. Ee!
58. Marjane Satrapi, Chicken with Plums
For the first three-quarters of the book I was pleading with the main character to please, please, get some treatment for depression. (Not that I know what year this was set, nor what treatments were available.) It's beautifully told, but jeez.
And then I hit the end. Oh. And then, after a delay while my brain backtracked and realized everything that had been going on: Ohhhhh...!
And so it has gone over the past week. Every once in a while, I realize again: Ohhh.
59. Saki Hiwatari, Please Save My Earth, Vol. 1
Thank you so much for the manga recommendations!
I liked this lots. Volume 1 is an excellent teaser for what looks like it will shape up to be a multi-layered story with interesting characters and some deliciously transgressive elements. Ee!
