Amanda

I miss this book and these characters.

Not bad, but in a sort of weird halfway point between a memoir and an essay collection - wanted it to be more clearly one or the other. The audiobook is read by the author, and she's amazing. I definitely laughed out loud (alone in my car) several times.

Reread. <3 <3

Decent-to-good BDSM romance, without the creep factor of 50 Shades of Grey. I'll probably buy the sequel.

Actually read this earlier this year, but didn't know what trade it was collected in (I'm reading digitally, as individual issues). I haven't been a big Cap fan, but this run by Brubaker and Epting has changed my mind.

Fred + Mary FOREVER. (I could talk for a million years about this book, and I wrote a lot of words about it in undergrad, but this is not the time or the place. Nonetheless, love love love. Persist with it, and it will reward you.)

Reread - trying to set up a family budget this time. More applicable, but still basically a pamphlet.

!!!!!

Really enjoyed this - I haven't read much of anything set outside the US (or Europe, I suppose), and that's a huge failing on my part. I loved the modern Nigerian setting and the mythology that was used. The final confrontation with the Big Bad came on a bit abruptly for me, but this was a fun book and I'd love to read more in this universe.

Loooooooved this. The minor characters are so great, especially Adelaide, who is completely Leslie-Knope-in-high-school. I like that the major conflict/story here is just about finding a place where you belong. Pretty sure everyone can relate to that.

Enjoyed this, more so when it got to the 80's or so and more creators I was familiar with started turning up. Would've like a little more mention about women/POC (all I remember is a discussion of adding new characters in the 60's to appeal to those markets), but overall interesting.

This book is extremely unpleasant but also extremely good. If that makes sense.

Ouch.

Loved this. All the characters felt realistic and well-developed to me, and I loved the relationships between Mandy, Jill, and Robin.

I wanted to like this a bit more than I did, but having the last part be mostly flashback kind of killed the momentum of the first half. I can see how that would work as a serial, but all in one gulp like I read, it didn't quite do it for me. Having said that, the layouts on some of these pages were absolutely stunning, and I do love Kate's backstory and that of her family. She's just not a character I've been able to find a way to connect with yet.

Maureen Johnson is incredibly hit or miss for me, and this one ended up being a miss. Neither of the boys were at all worth the angst and Ellis had no personality or characterization at all. Not a fan.

I don't read a lot of romance, but this is one of my favorite books to reread. The supporting characters make this book, but the main two are pretty damn great too.

Honeymoon reading. Just about right for that.

Meh. Would've probably liked it better without the whole Carrie-lite thing Mary has going. I don't need an explanation for all that, but things could have gone wrong just as easily without supernatural intervention. Also, this book just sort of ... ended. I know everything's a trilogy these days, but a little bit more ending would have been nice. Not sure I'm going to read the next one.

Books I will always be interested in: memoirs about growing up fundamentalist/evangelical. This one was excellent. I do wonder what happened to Aaron after high school graduation - especially coming out and all that stuff.

I adored everything about this book. Characters, storylines, everything.

Adorable. Perfect light end-of-summer reading.

Amusing, but better as a memoir than any sort of actual feminist analysis or anything. Very 101, and no real analysis of some things besides she likes one and not the other (strip clubs v. burlesque, for example). Very much straight white lady feminism as well. I didn't hate it by any means, but definitely a better memoir.

Boring.

Kate Bishop is better than you. This book is right up there with Matt Fraction's Hawkeye for me in terms of writing, characterization, and amazing and inventive art.