Graphic Novel Book Club: My Favourite Thing Is Monsters (Volume 1)

Another one of our occasional graphic novel reviews where we'll start off with each of us giving a 2 or 3 minute summary of what we thought of the book. We'll then have an open discussion on any particular aspects of the book that drew our attention. At the end we'll go round again and get everyone’s score out of 10 for the book together with any closing thoughts.

This time we'll be covering My Favourite Things Is Monsters. Here's some blurb:
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.

New physical copies are fairly expensive on Amazon but cheaper digitally on Kindle or for free on Kindle Unlimited.

If you'd prefer to attend in-person discussion of this book then check out the meetup event hosted by our friends over at the Horror Book Club the evening before our event.

We will join a zoom call for our discussions. We will post the link roughly 10 minutes before the start of the meeting.

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