Before I read [b:Fun Home|38990|Fun Home|Alison Bechdel|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327652831s/38990.jpg|911368], I'd only really heard of [a:Alison Bechdel|21982|Alison Bechdel|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1245100306p2/21982.jpg] because of the Bechdel test (which I recently discovered was actu...
What a perfect little book. Depressing, yes, but thought provoking and impeccably well put together. I've actually avoided this book for years because it sounded like something that would make me want to crawl under my covers, but it was lovely, and in the end, uplifting.
(Goodreads has no way of recording a second reading of a book. Fortunately, in this case my second reading was actually a different edition.)I reread Fun Home after liking Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama so much I read it twice—and it's just not as amazing. Not as rich thematically, graphically, n...
I mainly wanted to pick up this book because my family owns a funeral home. Often my mother (who works there) and I will shorten funeral home to "fun home", just like the title of this book. Imagine my surprise to find out that this book has very little to do with the day to day workings of a funera...
Reread this about halfway through "Are You My Mother?" I just couldn't stand reading all the references to this book without having it fresh in my head. It's a perfect book and I hope she writes more, but I really miss Dykes To Watch Out For. (Yes, I get to say that. I bought *new* copies of every D...
i'd say this is a 3.5. i liked the idea of calling a funeral home a "fun home" a whole lot. this is a memoir in comic book form, alison bechdel telling her own story in parallel with her father's and how she moved on after he died. i should say this is a family book, and so not normally the kind of ...
This is an amazing graphic novel, full of beauty and sadness, in which the autor's reflects about her family, specially the relationship with her father. Through the love for books and with some observations of how their sexual orientation, it analises how their choices influenced their individual l...
Fine! I'll read James Joyce. This is your fault, Ms Bechdel, thanks to your parallels. Maybe reading what you did will give me a fraction of your kickassitude*.*this is now a word.
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