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LOVED this queer graphic novel take on 1001 Nights! 🌙

#night #scarathlondailyprompts #teamslaughter

I love all Isabel Greenberg‘s graphic novels but this was the most flawless. Twisted up and reformed versions of a million folk tale motifs, some laughs, an ending that made me physically tear up. Such an emotional and imaginative story about women sharing stories in secret in Early Earth my new favourite fantasy world. This was completely perfect.
#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks no. 25 ticked off!

Not perfect but it was an enjoyable graphic novel about sisterhood and women empowerment.

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Hero and Cherry are lovers, but Cherry is married. Her husband makes a bet with a friend that he gets 100 nights to seduce his wife. Cherry doesn‘t know what to do, but she and Hero comes up with a plan. Hero will tell the man stories for 100 days. She tells of betrayal and loyalty, lovers both faithful and unfaithful, moons who come out of the sky, but mostly she tells about sisters, many, many sisters. Will Hero and Cherry‘s plan work?

What a perfect choice for my first foray back into graphic novels. I loved this. Fucking LOVED. I rarely cry over books, but BITCH DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TEARS I SHED. So moving and just...it got me, you know? The structure, the art, the stories, THE ENDING. Ladies in love, fighting patriarchal BS, struggling to be free, learning to live. It‘s funny, wise, queer, feminist, whimsical, dark, BEAUTIFUL. I‘m floored. Thank you, Isabel Greenberg. 5/5 ⭐️

OH NOES!!!! Not SASSINESS!!! The worst crime EVAR!!! 😆😆😆

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I‘m very new—like brand new, practically—to graphic novels, and I had no idea this would be so gigantic when I ordered it. It‘s heavy AF too! But it‘s dark and queer and I‘ve heard it‘s funny and feminist too, so it‘s worth the extra effort 😜 #nowreading

Great story and graphics! Highly recommended.

Good lessons. #NewYearWhoDis @Sarz @monalyisha

My next #NewYearWhoDis pick—I expect I‘ll like this one more! @Sarz @monalyisha

Cherry and Hero love each other, but Cherry‘s father forces her to marry. So of course her husband makes a bet with his friend about her virtue and when he loses the bet Cherry and Hero are accused of witchcraft. All of this set in a world created by a bird girl whose father decides he wants to run her creation because it‘s too lenient and no one fears him. Not a bad story, but not great either.

#lesbian #lgbqt #graphicnovel

Everybody loves this book: it tell‘s women‘s stories, and its mesage is how important it is to tell women‘s stories. This is good. However, I detested the format and the writing. The writing is childish, and the occasional swearing took me out of the fairy-tale feeling. Many claim this book is beautiful: but to me it looks dirty and ugly. And I hated that most men were depicted as evil, power-hungry and stupid. That‘s too simplistic. ⭐️⭐️/5

I. Loved. This. Great graphic novel with neat art, characters, and stories. 5/5

From the excellent One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg. #comics #graphicnovels #women #feminist

This is a #graphicnovel about #feminism and is AMAZINGLY well done. As someone that doesn‘t read this genre frequently, the dialogue was beautiful and humor was ongoing as well as the seriousness of the topic. #surprisinglygood #popsugar2018

There can‘t be #noordinarylove between Hero and Cherry for a long time, because they have to deal with creepy men treating them like objects. Luckily, through story telling and rebellion, everything ends as it is supposed to 👌

#FierceFeb

#FierceFeb Day 1: This feminist graphic novel is an exquisite description of the #ModernWoman - I love how womanity is portrayed so effectively and with such utter strength, quiet voice, and resolute power in this graphic novel that turns myths over on their head with such glee and abandon.

❤️❤️❤️

Super fun, cute, heartwarming, and feminist graphic novel. Loved this book so much!

A+

When your library has a double up your reading promo and you have not one, but three library cards, you got a little something like this.

#seasonsreadings2017

Hello hello! I have just one #bookishgift this year but it's a great one from my sister-in-law. And I'm going to settle down and read it, then later build my awesome Women of NASA Lego set the Husband got me. In the afternoon we're taking the kids to watch The Last Jedi!

Happy Boxing Day!

#bookishgifts

This is my #bookhaul from the Sirens conference 📚
They had a hand curated bookshop of women‘s fantasy with 1,000 titles - not copies, TITLES - and on my first walkthrough I was pleased I already had so many of the books featured.
Meaning I would not ‘need‘ to buy any.
HAHAHA.
This is me 15 books later 😁
And they put my carry-on through the airport security scanner twice - were they wondering why anyone would have a bag of 100% books? 😹

Another gorgeous book from @DeborahSmall 💕

In this retelling of The Arabian Nights, an evil man, Manfred, tries to seduce his friend's wife, Cherry. Manfred must seduce Cherry within a hundred nights, so he keeps thinking " #tonighttonight, it is going to happen tonight!" What Manfred hasn't considered is Hero, Cherry's lover. Hero keeps telling Manfred stories every night, and she does it so well, that Manfred wants to continue to listen to stories night after night. ?✨?✨

#90sinJuly

Grannys gonna grann. #24in48 #readathon

Good advice. #24in48 #readathon

The #24in48 #readathon is on! I'm off to a late start because I fell asleep reading. 😝

I picked this one up right after reading Greenberg's The Encyclopedia of Early Earth. This was a different take on the Arabian Nights, a slightly underwhelming one. Some of the stories told by Hero were very interesting but the overarching premise was less so.

Starting this for book club next week.

I loved everything about this book. I hope Greenberg keeps writing about Early Earth and Migdal Bavel.

Always watching....

I've read some great books this year, but so far nothing beats my love for Isabel Greenberg's work. This is her second graphic novel to take place in the Early Earth, a world full of amazing storytellers, wise crones, impossible lovers and, especially in this second book, incredibly strong female characters. So good! #TGIFGiveaway

Picked up these beauty at the library today. 😊
#libraryhold

"It was a skill that was considered sinful and wicked and SAS absolutely verboten... But the sisters did it anyway; they read. They read and they wrote."

Reading this before I return it to the library today!! 😲

So happy my library had this book! This has been on my TBR list for awhile! Starting it ASAP as I wait for my son to get out of school.

Two #numbertitles from my shelves 📚

#riotgrams

Talk about being a #creep. Staying classy by threating with rape and general smooth talking 🙄🙄

It is an amazing graphic novel though, and I would recommend to everyone who loves great artwork, fairytale retellings and badass lesbian lovers 👌

#RockinMay

Finally finished this book! It was a great love story about smart, witty women overcoming obstacles ( mostly men) and perseverance. Loved it! Here's Stormy #catsoflitsy

I just totally stopped taking the alka seltzer but I feel ok- ok enough to stay out of bed long enough for this to happen, lol. I even went out to the store and worked up a little sweat without coughing up a lung, which is VERY good. I am determined to finish this book today. I can't get back in bed anyways... lol #catsoflitsy Have a great Sunday Littens!! ❤️❤️😻😻📚📚

The descriptions of this book don't do it justice, the story is just lovely and very moving in its simplicity.

I caught my boyfriend's cold so I am feeling bad and can't sleep very well so I decided to sit my chair by the window and finish this book. Ozzie is in the window behind the fan. I don't know if you can see him too well. This book is cool so far. There may be someone in here to fix the other window in my room but I hope they can do it another day. Have a great day Littens!!! ❤️❤️📚📚🏙🏙😻

Today's #libraryhaul I really liked Greenberg's The Encyclopedia of Early Earth. There isn't anything about Crossing California on here but it is set in 1970's Chicago so I couldn't pass it up. I own a copy of Dark Matter, so I am hoping to buddy read that with my mom. The other two just seemed interesting. Hope you guys are having a great day!! ❤️❤️ 📚📚😎😎👍👍🏙🏙