2026-06-25 00:21 UTC
Book 51: Kampung Boy. This graphic novel is a classic of the genre which somehow I had never come across until I found it in a local LFL. It's an excellent story about growing up in a rural village in Malaysia as a Muslim kid at the same time as the rural ways are disappearing. The drawing is goofy and expressive and there is so much going on in each page it was fun to flip through it. It highlights just how isolated rural communities were and yet how much was still going on in each one.
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@jessamyn@glammr.us 2026-06-30 19:11
Book 52: The Keeper. Tana French's Cal Hooper series does not miss. An American ex-cop moves to a small town in Ireland, learning the ways of a place where everyone's known each other for generations. In this episode a young woman who is set to marry to local Big Man's son turns up dead. Trying to figure out what happened is a whole *thing*. Cal is folded more into the community as they unravel the story, this reveals some buried feelings of Lena's and everything disrupts and then settles again.