I picked this up because I loved Lucy Knisley's memoir Relish. If you are someone who can tolerate complaining about not bad things and can tolerate gushing about the things she doesn't want to complain about. I honestly didn't even want to finish this book, but I did. If she said something to that tone to me in person, I would roll my eyes, at best. Knisley apparently hates working, but wants to buy a moped and go on vacations. The constant complaining about things that do not seem to deserve such complaints (read: "first world problems") is obnoxious to me. In the latter as well as Radiator Days, she comes off as extremely spoiled, selfish, lazy, and kind of out of touch with reality. I did enjoy Relish, but that book is rather different than this or even French Milk. I've read 2 other books by Lucy Knisley, and I guess I just don't like her. I think to enjoy any memoir, you must to some extent enjoy and appreciate the writer. So I understand the diary aspect, I get the genre.
I have read many graphic novel memoir type books, and enjoyed nearly all of them. I am rating this 1 star, because according to GoodReads, that means "I did not like it". All in all, an interesting book, but probably not a good starting point to Knisley's work. The art itself was usually pretty neat and clear, though sometimes the panels were really small (at one point she has a 24-panel page which was far too tiny for me), though not fully in Knisley's later style. The journal comics themselves were a combination of nostalgic feels (Knisley and I are of an age) and just random thoughts and fears as a young 20-something (same, Lucy, same). In any case, this book is a straight journal comic for the most part, with some fictional graphic stories thrown in (I really enjoyed the "Bookshop" story, about a woman who secretly gives books away, as well as her real-life stories of working at a cheese shop one summer). Parts of it seem to be written simultaneously with French Milk, which was vaguely confusing. Turns out they're a very enthusiastic Knisley supporter, so I even found this self-published book, which is where I'm starting with Lucy.
A friend recently read Lucy Knisley's newest books ( Something New and Kid Gloves), and while I'd never heard of her, I liked what I could see of the art from those books, so I decided to see what my local library had.
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