My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Name: Entertaining, beautiful
Item: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Rating: 5
Author: OldManBob

(Book #1 in the My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Series)

By Emil Ferris

2025 Whiting Award WINNER in Fiction

Kirkus Reviews Best 100 Books of the Century (So Far)

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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1606999591

ISBN13:9781606999592

Release Date:February 2017

Publisher:Fantagraphics Books

Length:416 Pages

Weight:3.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.5" x 8.0" x 10.7"

Age Range:16 years and up

Grade Range:Grade 11 and higher

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Entertaining, beautiful

Published by OldManBob , 2 years ago

I enjoyed this. I recommend it to nearly anyone. I recommend it to anyone who likes comics, I recommend it to anyone looking to get into comics/graphic novels. At ~$20, it’s definitely worth the money