Fun Home not so fun

I for some reason thought "Fun Home" was going to be a funny, kind of happy book even though it says tragicomic on the front cover. I don't know why I thought this maybe because I usually associated comics with the funnies section of newspapers. So I guess I was kind of disappointed and bummed out when reading the book and didn't enjoy it very much. It had lots of dark subjects like possible suicide, pedophilia, and preparation of the dead for funerals. I liked the pictures because they were hand drawn by the author. I did sometimes confuse one character for another because a lot of the people looked the same. I also liked all the references to other literary works and how they played into the authors live. There were some interesting parallels to literary works and her own live. Unfortunately I didn't know many of the works she referenced and so much of it's impact was lost on me.

Skim

I honestly didn't really like "Skim". It was the cliched high school story. The misfit girl and the popular girls not getting along but then she becomes friends with the popular girl. There were some creative differences like Skim trying to be a witch but I really didn't enjoy reading it. I also sometimes got confused with reading the graphic novel because I often went to the wrong panel but they is because I don't read graphic novels. It was nice reading a different form of writing but I think I would have liked to read something else.

Can I get a visual?

In the beginning of class we discussed what it meant to be a female and a male. Some words associated with female are beauty, makeup, and model. Some words associated with male are strong, fitness, and muscles.


We read Bridget Jones's Diary and discussed the differences between public and private writing. As a class we generally agreed that a diary was a private form of writing.


We read Kinky which was a book of poems all about Barbie. We talked about our own experiences with Barbies and I thought that was a lot of fun. It made me want to play Barbies again. I liked the poems because they made me think how complex Barbie can be.