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9/7/2008
Chris picked this book up the other day. As usual, I’ll post when I’ve gotten into it (or finished it) and when I have some time. For now though, this quote of Holt’s from the editor’s foreword caught my eye.
Learning, to me, means making more sense of the world around us, and being able to [...]

It’s a rainy day Sunday so I thought I’d try to catch up on our blog. After our busy week and the non-stop rain this weekend we are just hanging out at home today.
This past week was a busy one. Aidan and I went on a police station tour at the Joliet Police department. The [...]

Post started: 8/7/08:I took my first sojourn with serious graphic literature last summer when I read Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis–an amazing memoir of a Satrapi coming of age in Iran during the cultural revolution. I highly recommend it. This summer, I thought I’d dip back into this fascinating (and under-recognized genre) with another graphic memoir. This [...]