NOVEMBER '19: ONTD doesn't read

[Lea]

This month, let’s live up to the ONTD stereotype and not read. Or at least, not a lot. This month’s task it to read a graphic novel, a book without any text or mostly consisting out of images. You can pick a children's book, art/illustration/photography book, etc. And you can even choose to just look at the pictures.

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[Eve]

I just picked up Meal at a conference, so I'll be reading that!

There's another one I had in mind for this challenge, Spinning, that I'll have to see if I can find.

[Undine]

I changed my mind! I read The Hollywood Book Club, which is pictures of Old Hollywood celebs reading or adjacent to books, and Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction's Most Beloved Heroines, which is watercolor images of and quotations from female protagonists. I flipped through The Art of Tangled because it’s the prettiest 3D Disney movie, but only glanced at the words. So much effort.

I also found Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page in my library’s ebook collection, and I might get around to it once I’ve recovered from all this hard work.

[Hannah]

I'll be reading My Friend Dahmer

I wish I didn't have such a backlog of library books checked out! Sometimes I use these monthly themes to clear out chunks of my to-read list and there are so many graphic novels I've wanted to read but haven't gotten around to!

[Juliana]

I just picked This Book is Gray from Amazon first reads. It's a children's book about a gray crayon wanting to write a story.

(aaaaand I already read it. I love this month!)

[aname]

I'll be reading Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 5 I loved the anime and I'm slowly going through the manga.

[Wendy]

Meg Cabot just released her first graphic novel, Black Canary Ignite so I'll be reading that and possibly some other graphic novels. I took a break the last few months because work kicked my butt but now I'm back!

[Irene.]

I was gonna read Tomie by Junji Ito just now, but the website I use is down. 🙃

[Jamie]

I read the graphic novel Snow Blind which was a great noir story with a fantastic atmosphere. This could definitely be a movie!

[Alyssa]

i read My Friend Dahmer and i thought it was fantastic.

[Sasha]

I read Eartha which was interesting and a little weird. At one point the city people are getting their news (view spoiler)[it's fake (hide spoiler)] from biscuits/cookies because if you're getting sad news, better to eat to have something to eat after.

[Nicole]

I selected a picture book called When Sadness Is at Your Door. It's a very sweet, short book. I liked it.

[Lea]

took me a while to find something to read for November. I found O Gato e as Orquídeas by Kwong Kuen Shan while browsing the catalog of a Brazilian publisher that mainly puts out translations of Japanese books (this wasn't a Japanese book, the author is from Hong Kong and I think this book might have been written in English originally - she lives in Wales).

Anyway it's gorgeous. It's a series of watercolors of cats and flowers (mainly orchids) with little Chinese proverbs or quotes. Adorable. There are 2 more books in this series and I'm tempted to get them.