Yarn Along

Joining Ginny for Yarn Along today.

On the needles, a pair of simple socks.  Currently reading and completely engrossed by the graphic novel by Seth called It's a Good Life, If You Weaken.  Yes, I said graphic novel.  It was a Christmas present from my brother-in-law who has been attempting to bring me over to the dark side, the dark side being the world of graphic novels.  (Mike just smirks when I call such book graphic novels.  "You mean comic book.")  Well, he succeeded several years ago.  I even have a small collection of comic books on my book shelf.  But this book  is different.  It is actually a novel but it just happens to be in the form of a comic book.  The drawings are beautiful, simple but dotted with the details of everyday life.

 

On his quest to find information about a New Yorker cartoonist from the '40s, the main character, a cartoonist himself, returns to his childhood home.  "Often when you return to a place you knew only as a child, you discover how empty and unfamiliar that place has  become.  I don't know anything here.  What I knew was how the grass looked between the curb and the sidewalk . . . or which tree in the backyard had the hornet's nest . . . or where the big puddle always formed after a rain."