Status Updates From Hostage

I needed to read a graphic novel for a reading challenge I'm doing this year. After some research, I selected this one because it sounded interesting and was different from what I read normally. It is the story of Christophe Andre's kidnapping while working for a humanitarian NGO in the Caucasus.

the design work on this book is impeccable. did someone really decide to make the book barcode stand in as a radiator? This illustrator is fabulous.

This book's got a damaged spine so I have to make one of those decisions about replacing it or not, but I've always been drawn to its linework and stark coloring and this is a good excuse to read it before I make a decision.

Guy was kidnapped 4 months ago and has finally decided to make a break for it. He escaped and got help from an Asian family and he called his team. The team came for him and found out that his mision was cancled.

This character(doesn’t give us the name) gets kidnapped and so far has been kidnapped for 2 months. He’s been kidnapped since July 1st and he’s been overthinking a lot. He’s given up at the fact that no ones looking for him. He thinks everyone either left to Paris, went back home, or didn’t care enough to go look for him. The people that kidnapped him have him cuffed to a heater and gets 3 meals a day.

This is the sort of book you just have to experience and read. It’s such an insightful book.

This is the sort of book you just have to experience and read. It’s such an insightful book.

One of the best graphic novels I have read, this one is purely a work of art.

pretty decent so far...

Oddly riveting considering you are just as trapped as Christophe in this tiny room with the radiator, feeling just as lost and alone...

Dam this man really endured a lot!

it's pretty

214 pages read in 28 min, via Leio (http://leio.co).

211 pages read in 21 min, via Leio (http://leio.co).

This is just dragging on. Currently having a "what was I thinking buying this?!" Moment

started approx. Thurs 4th Jan 2018

Simply stunning 👌🏼❤️

So far so good! Love the art style!

This is so interesting.

I could infer that he has given up now but not totally defeated yet.On pg.215 threw the comic he was imagining himself escaping. This proves that he still has hope of escaping.

Agobiante

And...that’s it! The endless construction sites, tracts ‘n tracts in Orange County in the late 60s- early 70s (the type you could ride your mustang bike to, crawl around (before “legal liability”) and only tetanus defined how many of those razor edged slugs (but we knew they were really coins of the realm - just hadn’t pinned down the realm...out there with Iraqi Dinars and Zimbabwe Dollars, i’m thinking).

Oh oh the SMELL of these pages. This only-read-once-before pages so..if only i knew what ink, what magic went into this particular process. Laying here trying to describe to myself what is it? What sweet assemblage of memory or imagination is this odour?

There's a lot of tension for nothing happening. I'm thinking the numbers for each chapter corresponds with the day.

Brilliant and beautiful

Fascinating and beautifully drawn

I just started reading this last night and it is so gripping woke up at 6 am to continue reading ....and cant wait to go back tonight to read the rest .... its a graphic novel par excellence ....Delisle is one of my favourite graphic novelist and this one is just stupendous