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March & April 2017 Reading

March and April were pretty damn good reading months for me, meaning I read 14 books between them, and YES COMIC VOLUMES COUNT AS BOOKS. Kind of.

 Broken down into fun genres they are:

 COMICS
The Beauty, Vol. 1
The Borden Tragedy
Black Panther, Vol. 1
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1
Batman, Arkham Asylum

 YOUNGER PEOPLE BOOKS
Star Wars: Before the Awakening
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

 STRAIGHT UP FICTION
The Girl on the Train
The Graduate
The Secret Life of Bees
Life After Life

 PRETTY GREAT / WORTHWHILE NON-FICTION
Between the Wars: 1919-1939
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life
Yes, that's a weird number of comics starting with a B. No, it was not planned. COINCIDENCE? Yes. Yes entirely.

 I also got a pretty good assortment of comics at C2E2 in Chicago. Two (Rough Riders and INSEXTS) are by Aftershock Comics, which I most inDEEDLY encourage you to check out, because I'd never heard of them, but pretty much all their stuff looked really interesting.


Rough Riders is Teddy Roosevelt, Annie Oakley, Harry Houdini, and Jack Johnson go on adVENTURES. INSEXTS is like....murderous Victorian lesbians. I showed it to my girlfriend and her response was basically "So they like...just bang on every page." 


If both prove good, I'll do a post dedicated to them and Aftershock. Greetings, May! Let us see what your reading days shall bring!

Comments

  1. RedMay 2, 2017 at 7:49 PM

    Hooray for all the reading (I dunno why but "Straight Up Fiction" makes me laugh, so well done with that header) and the murderous Victorian lesbians, which I hope live up to all the expectations

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  2. Jenny @ Reading the EndMay 4, 2017 at 7:03 PM

    Hey girl hey are you going to bring those comics to London to read, asking for a friend.

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  3. StefanieMay 11, 2017 at 1:29 PM

    Yay for Ms Marvel and Black Panther! Intrigued by the sound of Insexts so please be sure to say how it goes!

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