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Nov 15, Lola rated it really liked it Shelves: I feel like I should buy Lucy Knisley a drink. Get ready for the whole story though. Lucy does not illustrate her wedding alone. No, she goes back to the beginning. She talks about her I feel like I should buy Lucy Knisley a drink.
She talks about her life before John, how she met him, how he broke her heart, how he made it whole again… and more! For example, when she talks about choosing a dress, she explains her personal choices and needs in a clear manner and at length. So when it comes to the act of her trying dresses and finding the right dress, it feels more like her thinking process coming to an end than what we have been waiting to see all along. But I liked that. Sometimes it does get long. She is commenting on her past behaviours, choices and feelings.
This makes us understand her better. Because I became familiar with her personality, I was actually genuinely happy for her when she found the right dress. I agreed that it was a perfect fit for her. Very insightful, well-illustrated and personal. Eager to read more from this author! Aug 26, Heather rated it it was ok Shelves: I also really enjoyed this book! I don't think I loved it as much as I wanted to or more than her other novel, Relish but it holds a special place in my heart because, well, weddings! I am a wedding photographer so I love weddings and I get how stressful planning they can be.
I do however feel when your planning a wedding it's all me, me , me buts your big day, it makes sense but still this book kind of screamed that. I also felt like she said she wasn't like a typical bride about times and end I also really enjoyed this book! I also felt like she said she wasn't like a typical bride about times and ending up caring even more than most of my brides I think I just wanted to love this one a little more.
May 03, First Second Books marked it as first-second-publications. We love this graphic novel!
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One of the features of the graphic novel industry is that it's tough to find books that are actually meant for an audience of women in their twenties and thirties. There are a few of them out there and many of those books are awesome! And yay Lucy, for creating engaging, hilarious, heartwarming We love this graphic novel!
And yay Lucy, for creating engaging, hilarious, heartwarming stories for us. Jan 19, David Schaafsma rated it liked it Shelves: Yes, I actually read all of a page book about Knisley's wedding!! And women, primarily, I am guessing. The artwork is as it always has been in her four books so far, fun, sweet, adorable, colorful, the main attraction of all her books, and it's better than ever, maybe, in this one.
But she skirts larger, deeper issues she just hints at for a focus on all the arrangements, about the emotional freaking out over Yes, I actually read all of a page book about Knisley's wedding!! But she skirts larger, deeper issues she just hints at for a focus on all the arrangements, about the emotional freaking out over people not replying to their invitations, about buying the right and affordable dress, and so on.
She claims to be a rebel against the wedding industry, but aren't many? Okay, as a middle-aged man I am not the primary audience for this text, which I personally found just all right, in terms of the content, but I won't kick it to the curb just because it wasn't written for me, or because it is about the Joy and Strangeness of Getting Married, so I'll add a star to in part acknowledge all the largely women readers who love this one. I prefer Relish to all her others so far, though. Aug 31, Britany rated it really liked it Shelves: This was the greatest graphic novel I've laid my hands on.
It was so much fun! Lucy Knisley takes this opportunity to walk us through her relationship with John and the road to their wedding and the aftermath. It was such a creative way to illustrate pun intended! I appreciate Lucy's honesty about her previous relationships and how having children was a pivotal decision in her life. I loved the drama, the personal touches she incorpo This was the greatest graphic novel I've laid my hands on.
I loved the drama, the personal touches she incorporated into her wedding, and her aversion to the norm. This was funny and clever and I couldn't wait to keep turning those pages. I also loved the little mini breaks in between chapters and the real pictures that were added in. This really felt like a personal labor of love and I enjoyed every moment.
This would be great for someone that is looking to explore the world of graphic novels without superheroes. View all 5 comments. View all 3 comments. Jun 06, Aloke rated it really liked it Shelves: Something New is Lucy Knisley's memoir of meeting her future husband and getting married. Ordinarily that wouldn't be my thing but I really liked her previous book Relish and I spotted this at the library and picked it up. I liked it and I thought it worked because of Knisley's art and her humor. It's a good looking book: I love the cover and her crisp drawing style. I also love the little interludes throughout the book: Even throughout the more straightforward narrative parts she always inserts funny asides or cutaways she imagines herself falling off a dock in her wedding dress drily uttering "nards!
It's one of the first graphic novels I've read that took me a few days to get through: But the art and humor mostly sustain the momentum. It might have benefited from some editing. The scenes around the actual wedding and the lead up felt a bit flat and overly sentimental.
I can sympathize with Knisley wanting to keep a kind of diary of who and what happened but it lost a bit of the spark here. As an aside how does editing work with graphic novels? I mean, it's not just words that are getting cut. Maybe it's hard for an editor to break it to the author that pages and pages of painstakingly drawn panels have to be scrapped. And then all the pages have to be rearranged!? I'm sure that's not how it works. They probably just make a rough storyboard and edit that.
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I'm getting stressed out just thinking about it. View all 4 comments. Jul 03, Aneesa rated it it was ok Shelves: Good thing I still enjoy reading graphic novels that I don't even like. I finished this book and didn't know what the point of it is until I read the "thank you" section which describes it as "a wedding story about how nuts weddings are, but, at the same time, how great. She tries to give the impression of being thrifty and not complying with needless and sexist traditions, while still having a gigantic wedding, three engagement parties, a bridal shower, and tons of what I would consider extras.
I think she tried to do this but it doesn't land. Basically if you have planned a wedding, you have already experienced this book. Maybe you were surprised how fast Facebook ads targeted you when you changed your relationship status; maybe you weren't. Another gripe is that too many of the panels simply illustrate the narration instead of adding to it. For instance the picture of the calendar with Saturday circled although actually Friday is circled.
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Jul 11, Jessica Woodbury rated it liked it Shelves: I am divorced and, as you'd probably guess, I have complicated feelings about weddings. So it's probably no surprise that I have complicated feelings about this book. If anyone is ever going to try to do a frothy but warm look at wedding culture and one wedding in particular, Knisley is well suited for it. She is charming, self-aware, able to provide a lot of perspective, and the graphic memoir format works very well for the subject matter.
I really appreciated the variety of approaches Knisley I am divorced and, as you'd probably guess, I have complicated feelings about weddings. I really appreciated the variety of approaches Knisley took to the issue the section on being bisexual and marrying an opposite-sex partner in particular struck a chord with me and the immediacy of the story which she wrote as she was wedding planning. But any book about a person's wedding written with that immediacy is going to lack a sense of remove and critical thought.
Distance is useful when writing about these things, it helps us understand a bigger context of those memories. There are times when she discusses her wedding and planning where it feels like Knisley has blinders on both at the time and during the writing. And, well, it's hard to avoid the issue of privilege when you talk about wedding planning. That to be able to hold a big wedding relatively cheaply isn't always about your own personal priorities but about who you know and how big their pockets are.
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That piece of the puzzle is a very large one and Knisley leaves it almost entirely unexamined besides encouraging people to go to their family and friends for help, ignoring the fact that many people don't have those support systems to provide that help. The idea of having a "personal" wedding is embraced rather than examined as well. Of course I'm going to be a nitpicker. I look back at my own wedding and while there are things I am happy about, I am disappointed in myself that I let myself get as wrapped up in it as I did and I did not get very wrapped up in it at all.
The very idea that coming together around weddings as a society is a good thing is something I cannot necessarily endorse. But with all that said, I was very charmed by Knisley, though ironically it was when the wedding itself was less at the forefront that she seemed at her best to me. Jul 19, Olive abookolive rated it really liked it. Still glad I didn't have my own wedding my god are they expensive and stressful , but reading about Lucy Knisley's was a really sweet and entertaining experience. If only I had her creative talent I could throw some killer DIY parties.
Alas, I'll stick with my spreadsheets. Nov 25, Kelly added it Shelves: I got married 9 years ago holy crap and it was a totally low-key, I-hate-planning-stuff event. I asked my mom and my friends who'd be in the wedding how they would feel about flying to Vegas to do it. We planned a wedding at one of the hotels in a beautiful outside garden, and by "planned," I mean someone did it all, and I had to point at some colors and flower I got married 9 years ago holy crap and it was a totally low-key, I-hate-planning-stuff event. We planned a wedding at one of the hotels in a beautiful outside garden, and by "planned," I mean someone did it all, and I had to point at some colors and flower styles.
I remember hating the flowers immensely and also not caring because all of my friends and family were in Las Vegas to party with us. All of this preface is to say I really liked this book because I didn't relate to any of it! I enjoyed watching it from the outside, much in the way that John recalls the honeymoon-photo-shoot experience he and Lucy witnessed.
I didn't need any of the advice in here, but I found the anecdotes to be funny and fun, and I thought the big "take away" at the end was worth the ride there. I loved how Knisley incorporated photographs, as well as small tradition tidbits into the collection, giving it something a little more personal. I mean, a graphic memoir IS personal, but then when you get to see a picture of the thing she drew, there's another layer there.
People who love wedding stories will love this. Those who are in the thick of being married now might not, though those who are beyond like myself! This is nicely inclusive, as it would be, since our world is many colored, gendered, romantic, and more. May 22, Sesana rated it liked it Shelves: Not the best thing that Knisley's done, in my opinion, but still generally enjoyable. Probably having fairly recently lived through my sister's wedding might have given me some perspective that helped the book.
I'm not sure I would have liked it at all otherwise. May 17, Book Riot Community added it Shelves: Calling all Lucy Knisley fans! Thankfully, John shows up big time in this new graphic novel as Lucy plans her wedding. A deeply satisfying read; a perfect choice as wedding season begins. Jan 04, Ashley rated it really liked it Shelves: I don't feel like really reviewing this, so a small blurb will have to do.
I always enjoy reading Lucy Knisley's stuff, it's like catching up with her. I don't think I'm at all objective though. She writes these autobiographical comics and books so I feel like I'm catching up with her life as she's living it, for going on eleven years now. It's really sort of unique what she does, documenting her life as it happens, for public consumption. I see other reviewers taking her style and interpreting I don't feel like really reviewing this, so a small blurb will have to do.
I see other reviewers taking her style and interpreting it as overly privileged or not hard hitting or analytical enough. Those people should probably stop reading her stuff, she's not going to deliver what they seem to be looking for. I also get really annoyed when people dismiss a book as "bad" when their only criticism is "this isn't the book I wanted to read.
This is Lucy's documentation of her wedding. She is self-reflective and honest about what her actual feelings were at the time. I didn't know she and John had gotten married! I'm so excited to read this! Dec 19, Robin rated it really liked it Shelves: I have enjoyed all of Lucy's graphic memoirs. In her latest Lucy chronicles the process of planning a wedding while working out her feelings about getting hitched.
As one who didn't want to spend the big bucks for a wedding this was 43 years ago! Lucy's drawings are perfect and the included photos from the planning and wedding enhanced the visual I have enjoyed all of Lucy's graphic memoirs. Lucy's drawings are perfect and the included photos from the planning and wedding enhanced the visual experience. Fans of Lucy Knisley won't be disappointed and if readers cry at weddings like I do , a tissue might be in order.
Apr 07, Melissa Chung rated it it was amazing Shelves: I am 10 days late at writing this review. This wonderful graphic novel was released on May 3rd, but I wanted to read it slowly and savor every moment. I want to thank Gina from First, Second Publishing for allowing me the opportunity to review this gorgeous new graphic novel. I first read her Relish: My Life in the Kitchen back in March and fell in love with Lucy's story.
Her life, her illustrations her wit. She is f I am 10 days late at writing this review. She is funny and human and I loved all the food. I realized after reading Relish and then French Milk, that Lucy really, really likes food. Which I can totally appreciate. I come from a family of Yummers! My grandma and her 3 siblings ate with a hearty German appetite. Every few years or so since they were in their twenties they got together for a "Yummers" photo them bent over rubbing their hands together So reading Lucy's tales of food growing up just made me appreciate mine even more.
Especially since the Yummers are down to 2 from 4: Tales from a Makeshift Bride you get a look at all the challenges in love of a mid-twenties college girl to a late twenties almost bride. How and when Lucy met John her husband and what all happened in between.
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It was definitely a fate kind of thing. The way they kept crossing paths and then just saying "F-it" I love you too much, let's get married. I adore wedding shows and wedding stories. I get sappy and teary over the whole endeavour cause it's just so sweet. I will forever remember the wind wind click in the background while the guy marrying us made us repeat the vows.
It was so silly, but I wouldn't change it for the world.
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How to convince my husband is another story. Reading this graphic novel about Lucy's wedding planning and its fruition and then the wedding itself was just so fun. If you like being that nosy body and reading about other people's lives I'd pick up this book. If you like getting real information about wedding planning, traditions and superstitions read this book. If you like beautifully drawn illustrations, funny dialogue and a down to earth real life story of a bride to be read this book.
May 19, Anita rated it liked it. I had expected this book to offer a humorous, visual look at wedding traditions through the lens of one couple's wedding. It did do that to some extent, but I was left feeling a little unfulfilled by the story and a little unimpressed by the method of delivery. It reminded me a little of Fun Home, but whereas Fun Home is full of conflict and heart, and the drawings serve to enhance the story, this graphic memoir seemed somehow I'm totally fine with reading something fun and light I had expected this book to offer a humorous, visual look at wedding traditions through the lens of one couple's wedding.
I'm totally fine with reading something fun and light and fluffy about weddings, but my problem with this book comes with all its complaining and attempts at making important statements. I think about weddings a lot, and I like to think I'm more of a nontraditional bride, choosing to keep certain traditional elements I like and disregard the antiquated ones I don't care for.
So I think my issue with this book is that it kept criticizing the rationale for weddings, the customs, and, most of all, the dreaded patriarchy. I don't get it; if she hates those things, why does she participate in them? No one seems to be forcing her, but she complains about it anyway.
It's like Knisley can't deal with any aspect of the wedding process without focusing on how gosh darn hard it is to be a "raging queer feminist" her words, p. I guess I'm surprised by how hard this whole thing seemed for her. I feel as if we live in a time where the American wedding tradition has already changed so much. Sites like Offbeat Bride encourage brides to turn their weddings into whatever they want, and in the communities I subscribe to, I see all kinds of weddings that defy convention.
In Knisley's place, it seemed like there really was no stress or conflict, but she chose to find it anyway. For someone who seems so skeptical of the wedding tradition in general, she sure spent a lot of time in the book freaking out over making her own ties for the groomsmen because "the fabric had to match. Other than that, her life seems like a piece of cake. Or, in her case, lemon bars. The full-colour illustrations are drawn in her classic, cartoony style which is always super cute.
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She also included photographs of her wedding at the end of the each chapter, which added a level of realness to her story. The fact that I am still thinking about the movie a few days later is meaningful to me anyway! I wish the Mother character and probably the Brother as well, were more realistic in their haughtiness. Maybe the writer was looking for all attitudes to be explored, and, as likable as he was, the saintly Father may have been too good to be true.
But the leads pulled off the underlying feeling that "love conquers all" and provided me with an entertaining, thoughtful couple of hours. It was the exact opposite of all those movies that I want "my two hours back!
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