Blankets by Craig Thompson

[Melissa Wiebe]

I picked up this book for a reading challenge that I am involved in through Goodreads and I loved it. It is my third graphic novel that I have read (the first two were the Maus books) and I was amazed by this book! Not only is the story really good (which helps), but the drawings are gripping. If this had been a regular novel, it would have be drab and I probably would have been putting this down pretty quick. But the drawings in the book also tell the story as much as the words do.

Has anybody else read this?

[Michael]

I loved Blankets also. I read a library edition awhile ago, and just found a marked down new copy at the Harvard Book Store last week, so I snapped that up!

It's the perfect graphic novel for people who think they won't like graphic novels.

[Judy]

I'll second that recommendation. My daughter loaned it to me and it made me have a completely different perspective on graphic novels.

She gave me by Marjane Satrapi for Christmas and I felt much less intimidated by the graphic novel format because I'd enjoyed
so much.