panThis was horrible. There were 2 timelines happening, but nothing happened in either. All the characters looked exactly the same. There was even a "joke" the author made of Tara looking exactly like Ben and their classmates calling them the other's name. So the author obviously knew they all looked exactly the same, but didn't try to fix it. There were also a lot of Canadian stereotypes in it to the point of it being embarrassing. Hated it.
so-soLiked the art, could not get into this story though. It just fell flat for me.
so-so2018 // 013 | Mercury - Hope Larson | 2010 | 240pp
This book uses parallel timelines to tell the stories of Tara, a modern day teen dealing with issues of family, abandonment, and loss, and her ancestor, Josephine, a young lady in 1859, learning who to trust and how to be in the world. I have enjoyed Hope Larson‘s work before, but this books attempts at magic realism combined with the duel narratives fell a little flat for me.
pickI mainly liked this book, but I found the explanations of Canadianisms a bit irritating. Maybe for non-Canadians they would be helpful.
Aha apparently I already had picked up the Mercury graphic novel. Paired with farmers market stir fry - the purple cabbage, carrots and green beans were from the farmers market. The rice dish is what in Singapore is called claypot rice. Chinese sausage, ginger, chicken meat marinated in dark soy sauce and oyster sauce. Except I cooked it in the rice cooker instead of a clay pot.
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pickMy first Hope Larson! I love the way it weaves together two timelines, joining the stories of two young women from different generations of the same family. Both fall in love at the wrong time and face relinquishing their vision of their futures to their parents' plans, but in a magical-realism twist of fate, the root of all one's woes could end up being the solution to other's, 150 years later!
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