Recent reading
May. 17th, 2017 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaThe Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia by Mary and Bryan Talbot
Huh, this is the third graphic novel about a historical female political activist that I read this year. This one's about Louise Michel. It has a frame story where Charlotte Perkins Gilman is in Paris the day Michel is buried, and talks to a Parisian woman about her. I liked it fine, and the art is lovely, in black and white with a touch of red. It has a theme of utopian visions running through it and they talk about various utopian books, but I didn't think it went much further than yeah, all these women like utopian books. I would've liked it to dwell more on the Paris Commune before its fall. Like, how did they try to practically realize their utopia, and how did that relate to all these fictional utopias?
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
For book club at work. Meeeeh. I thought this was overdramatic and not very interesting, and most of the others thought so too. Maybe it hasn't aged well.
Huh, this is the third graphic novel about a historical female political activist that I read this year. This one's about Louise Michel. It has a frame story where Charlotte Perkins Gilman is in Paris the day Michel is buried, and talks to a Parisian woman about her. I liked it fine, and the art is lovely, in black and white with a touch of red. It has a theme of utopian visions running through it and they talk about various utopian books, but I didn't think it went much further than yeah, all these women like utopian books. I would've liked it to dwell more on the Paris Commune before its fall. Like, how did they try to practically realize their utopia, and how did that relate to all these fictional utopias?
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
For book club at work. Meeeeh. I thought this was overdramatic and not very interesting, and most of the others thought so too. Maybe it hasn't aged well.
