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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Community Reviews back

by Alison Bechdel
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FatherCraneMadeMeDoIt
FatherCraneMadeMeDoIt rated it 5 years ago
For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleThis is a hard one for me to rate. While this book was powerful at times (that last page though!), at others it fell kind of flat. And while I can appreciate the amount of bravery and self-reflection that went into telling this story, it just wasn't th...
Sheila's Reads
Sheila's Reads rated it 6 years ago
Growing up in a small town when you are different is not easy. Add a father who seems to be so exacting, a mother who is intent on her thesis and her theater productions, and siblings who are into their own things makes it harder. Alison knows she does not like the feminine clothing her father wan...
My Never Ending List
My Never Ending List rated it 8 years ago
This wasn’t exactly what I thought it would be. I found myself enjoying parts of this graphic novel and then later, I found myself wondering exactly what I was reading. It seemed to have weird transitions between scenes which threw me off and some of the topics were redundant. Overall, not a good no...
TeaStitchRead
TeaStitchRead rated it 8 years ago
I heard about this book from different Book Riot contributors. When it (and the follow up) went on sale, I picked both up. This is my first graphic novel-style memoir, but I like the subgenre. However, the story of Bechdel and her dad was uneven, so I waffled between 2.5 - 3 stars, finally rounding ...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 9 years ago
The latest foray into the realms of the graphic novel led me to Bechdel's autobiographical works about her parents. Fun Home, the earlier of the two books, describes her growing up and relationship with her father. Without going into much of the plot and issues, Fun Home offers an exploration into...
XOX
XOX rated it 9 years ago
What were they thinking? If their religious faith is so strong, reading one book would not affect their continuous religious delusion. The writer is a lesbian. And it is about her story. Why are Christians so close-minded? Reading a story of a lesbian would not diminish their faith in religi...
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it 9 years ago
Such a great memoir. Bechdel's graphics really worked for me. I like reading comics/graphic novels, but the images are usually secondary to me. That wasn't the case with Fun House. In terms of reading experiences it reminded me of This One Summer.
Literary Ames
Literary Ames rated it 10 years ago
An erudite, self-aware feminist memoir, in graphic novel form, examining a lesbian’s childhood relationship with her parents – especially her closeted gay father. Fun Home is chock full of psychoanalysis, literary criticism and commentary on gender, sexuality and suicide. You may recognise the autho...
Bloodorange
Bloodorange rated it 10 years ago
Allusive, literary, surprising, very well contructed graphic novel.
La Mala *the mean girl*
La Mala *the mean girl* rated it 10 years ago
EDIT: Abril, 2015[Releyendo e a poquito. ¡Qué ganas de comprarlo en físico!]Reseña Original: Enero 2015Estoy un poco revolucionada, así que la siguiente reseña es un desvarío en pocos párrafos. Sepan disculpar. "Not only we were inverts. We were inversions of one another. While I was trying to compe...
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