We are in Madison for Roger’s memorial service this Saturday at the temple and this morning walking the dogs I found this book in a Little Free LibrarWe are in Madison for Roger’s memorial service this Saturday at the temple and this morning walking the dogs I found this book in a Little Free Library and it is very good and reminds me how much I want to make little books before I die. Little funny books like this one, sweet and simple. I really want that and it’s good for me to be reminded and so I really appreciate this book for itself as well as for that little hint your can get from art like the art you want to make. (The hint is: make art.)...more
I read a lot of comics and I like most of them and like-like a lot of them but it’s been a minute since I’ve flipped head over heels for a completely I read a lot of comics and I like most of them and like-like a lot of them but it’s been a minute since I’ve flipped head over heels for a completely bananas genius, so this was soooo fuuuunnnnn to read holy hell what a gruesome riveting comixer Hanselmann is, five stars would get grossed out astonished and weirdly deeply touched by again ...more
My mom got this for me when I was a kid because at that time Hannah was a very uncommon name among my age cohort (born in ‘79, before and Her Sisters My mom got this for me when I was a kid because at that time Hannah was a very uncommon name among my age cohort (born in ‘79, before and Her Sisters brought hannahs back into boom) and it was sooo cooool to see my name in a book! And then I also just loved this book, there’s all this weird old-timey stuff in it and it was a real comfort read for me, a real return to it frequently kind of book. Anyway flash forward thirty years and I’ve moved from Florida to Brooklyn to upstate New York where it dawns on me OH ROUTE 9W that is where *I* live!! I live where Hannah lived. Amazing. So I reread this and it’s just as perfect as I remember. What a fun little world it can be....more
I read this alone two summers ago, and reread it this month with a group of women, some of us familiar with the stories of Genesis and some of us compI read this alone two summers ago, and reread it this month with a group of women, some of us familiar with the stories of Genesis and some of us completely unfamiliar, and I noticed that there's an extent to which this book kind of can't hit for you if you are in the latter category, maybe? Like if you haven't been exposed in some explicit way to these ancient parables, a strange and curious eye turned gently onto them is maybe not going to pack a lot of punch for you. Like why not just read any silly story. But for anyone who's been exposed, I feel like this is a pretty fascinating book. Finck's Genesis isn't so much a "feminist adaptation," which category it gets tucked into in blurbs, less the story of "God" as a woman, and more the story of a woman as a creator. Any woman. The woman who happened to be telling the story at the moment when Finck caught up to it. Herself, that is to say. And how in one telling, one possible interpretation of this bizarre tapestry of stories with no narrative integrity the way we like to think about our stories as having, in one telling there is an onus on this creator to be gentle and let go of everything she thinks she's responsible for, and just keep showing up in the garden every day not only meeting snakes, but meeting them at the door laughing. No more floods. I love this book. It probably would have been better for Finck to give up on the rigor of retelling all these weird specific stories and spend more time digging into the intersection of creation/creator/the word/light/lilith, but that's my taste, I am less a Genesis fan and more an ookie little meanderings fan. Which is why I love Liana Finck's work in general and this book in particular....more
Ok I am still committed to not doing the ratings system on here but this book fyi is VERY five-star. I mean dang. I have not loved a comic this much iOk I am still committed to not doing the ratings system on here but this book fyi is VERY five-star. I mean dang. I have not loved a comic this much in a minute, she’s got the anarchic dirtyburdiness that is my number one top fav PLUS jokes jokes jokes like a pro, my other number one top fav. And she is Swedish as well and talking about periods and pussies which is all my absolute number one top fav. Hell yes to this book....more
Just finished rereading this again and now it is time to crack the second and final volume. What a moment. We have been 2024: OMMGGGG IT'S TIIIIIIIIME
Just finished rereading this again and now it is time to crack the second and final volume. What a moment. We have been waiting for this for as long as I have been MARRIED!!!
Okay see you in the future.
2020: I reread this as a little birthday treat and wow. I can’t believe I’d only read it once before. How am I not just reading this book all the time, like why am I not reading it right now instead of typing this out? Anything I’m doing that’s not reading this book is a little bit wasting my life, tbh, is how I feel atm.
Anyway I try not to cuss on here so much these days but faaaaaaaaa****ck me, this book. This book!!! What a gorgeous honking mindbending full-body whopper of a tale....more
I thought this had a lot of useful insights. I’d like to read about this subject more in the realm of non-intimate partner/family relationships, thougI thought this had a lot of useful insights. I’d like to read about this subject more in the realm of non-intimate partner/family relationships, though, as this book is very much focused on that kind of relationship and I am interested in applying the same wisdom to people you work with or meet in recovery....more
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