Who’s your favorite author that other people are NOT reading? The one you want to evangelize for, the one you would run popularity campaigns for? The author that, so far as you’re concerned, everyone should be reading–but that nobody seems to have heard of. You know, not JK Rowling, not Jane Austen, not Hemingway–everybody’s heard of them. The author that you think should be that famous and can’t understand why they’re not…
My post isn’t so much about a favorite author as it is about a favorite book: Craig Thompson’s Blankets, a graphic novel published in 2003 by Top Shelf Productions. It’s sincere, honest, sweet, and heartbreaking and it’s one of my favorite books ever. If I could get just one person to read it and love it half as much as I do, I’d be one happy blogger. It’s a coming-of-age autobiography that tells the story of the author’s childhood and early adulthood. It deals with family, sexuality, spirituality, first love, growing up, and trying to find your own way in life.
My name is Christina (aka Anesthezea). I'm a self-professed Geek Mom who divides her time between raising the most awesome 2 year-old ever and the urge to bury her nose in the nearest book. While I enjoy reading many types of fiction, my favorites are contemporary, historical, and paranormal romances, urban fantasy, and suspense.