Scott Pilgrim: Precious Little Life, vol. 1 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Before you tell me, I KNOW. I know Scott Pilgrim has been around since 2004 and I probably should have covered his precious little life before now. I know tons of you have already read all five volumes...
View ArticleJust One Day by Gayle Forman
“We are born in one day. We can die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.” Allyson is on her graduation European tour bored out...
View ArticleLove and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo
Amelia is a fifteen-year-old high school student and part time grocery store cashier. Chris is a twenty-one-year old part college student and grocery store trainer. The overlap in their potential...
View ArticleThe Adventures of Superhero Girl by Faith Erin Hicks
It’s hard work fighting evil. Just ask Superhero Girl, the under-appreciated star of Faith Erin Hick‘s tongue-in-cheek graphic novel. Superhero Girl has grown up in the caped shadow of her older...
View ArticleFangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Cath is the shy “Clark Kent” half of Cath and Wren, a pair of twins who used to share everything, including their love of writing and reading fan fiction. But now that they’re headed to college, Wren...
View ArticleOver Easy by Mimi Pond
As the 1970’s are coming to a close, Margaret is in a post-college slump, trying to figure out where she fits in as a female pop culture cartoonist between the aging hippies and the new punkers. Then...
View ArticleSeconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Katie should be loving her life. She’s a hotshot young chef with her own restaurant (Seconds) and about to open a new one called Lucknow. There’s only one problem: her success has made her miserable....
View ArticleThe Sculptor by Scott McCloud
David Smith is a disgraced artist. Once a rising young star in the art world, he said the wrong thing about the wrong critic and suddenly his career was in the toilet. Now he’s washed up at twenty six...
View ArticleSomething New by Lucy Knisley
Not being a big fan of weddings in general, it took me awhile to pick up Lucy Knisley‘s charming graphic memoir about her own wedding experience. What I should have remembered is that Knisley has a...
View ArticlePermanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi
Eleanor and Park meets Taylor Swift in super cool Vice News correspondent Mary H.K. Choi’s sophomore novel. Pablo Neruda Rind (“Rind like India. Not, like, mind.”) is a twenty year old college dropout...
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