Brennan had no more to give me, and I had to go right to the original source. Except then I fell in love with Fence and decided that I needed more. At first, I was content to read Brennan’s novels and leave it at that. Brennan’s Fence is somehow connected to an existing graphic novel series that she initially had nothing to do with. I had read all of Oseman’s novels, including the ones that you can’t just step into a US bookstore and pick up. Heartstopper is an original graphic novel series written and illustrated by an author that I already loved. Of course, that is a slightly different situation. When Sarah Rees Brennan, author of In Other Lands, wrote a novelization of the graphic novel series Fence, I was onboard for that, too.
When Alice Oseman of Radio Silenceand I Was Born for Thisfame wrote Heartstopper, I read it. Still, I like trying to expand my horizons, and if one of my favorite authors takes me somewhere-even somewhere I’m not used to-I’ll follow. As you can imagine, this made reading Watchmen a nightmare. I like looking at pictures, especially in a certain kind of style-I love the recent trend of cute YA covers!-but graphic novels and I don’t really get along because half their story is told in the images, and unless I actively tell myself look at the pictures, don’t just read the words I tend to miss things. The most challenging? The one where we watched movies instead of reading books.
I majored in English literature and took classes that studied everything from The Hunger Games to Jane Austen to Kafka to Oscar Wilde. There’s something about images that my brain just doesn’t handle as well. They just don’t suit my reading particularly, because I like to be deeply immersed for a long time and I’m not great with visuals. I’m not one of those judgy people who is all they’re not real books.
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