Blankets by Craig Thompson

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Blankets by Craig Thompson

There are some things that I really liked about this book, and some stuff that I really didn't. Over all it's a worthwhile read, it deals with issues that I don't often see in print let alone comics... young adults who have grown up in a world that's sheltered in a way that reality won't acknowledge. I also feel like this addresses the issue of young people how grow up in religious families, and fall away from those values, in large part because they are not the values of the generation, or the society that they are trying to navigate. This falling away isn’t in that pyrotechnic blow out with lots of screaming and yelling, as much as it’s a slow passage of missing church here, stop praying there, seeing rated R movies, drinking a few beers… and once your at college, all bets are off. .. that said I think that Thompson's previous work, Good bye Chunky Rice has a much more emotional core, and while as a reader I don’t really look for a rehash of the previous work, I am still looking for something that touches me in the same way, that give me that same connection, and I really didn’t feel that Blankets did that…

It's a going!

This past week has been pretty light on the job hunt, mostly because I have been working on a application for the Ann Arbor District Library. The question becomes why would I want to work there? Well several reasons, some of them that might seem a little dumb. First I dig the Library it's a big building filled with book, and now they even have dvds and music that you can check out. It's a place where people can gather and where there are community events. The AADL has several branches, 3 of which are fairly close to where I live, and the main branch is with in walking/biking distance (when the weather permits). I have come to see the library as a community recourse, with it's media collections, it's internet access, the library book sales and it's programs, and really I would like to be part of that system and team..... then there is the pay and the whole full time employment with benefits thing as well. I think that's enough about that, I don't want to jinx it...

On the Road. Honestly I would think that the trip though the south at this time of the year would be the lest exciting and eventful for me. Partly because I am chomping at the bit for spring and summer when I could revisit places in the north and northwest that I have been to before. When I last posted I noted that I would be headed west along the gulf coast toward Texas. I hope at this point that I would have just wandered to Mobile, AL and seen the sights. I don't really have a clue what is there, but I would just want to take a look. One place that I would like to check out is Battleship Memorial Park (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_Memorial_Park) as I like that WWII stuff. I think it's that I see the Second World War as a time where things were mostly on track. I a lot of ways it was the coming together of people in the USA, and it helped lead the way to the world we live in with not only the bad stuff, but also the good.

Gotta run, more later.