I’ve read a few things that don’t really call out for their own full reviews. So I’ll just touch on them here. Not that I didn’t like them (although I wasn’t fond of 2 of the books), but it’s just easier than creating a new blog post to say 2-3 sentences about it. Here we go.
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Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
Alison Bechdel is having her wonderful graphic novel Fun Home(my review), made into a stage musical.
Great talent is converging with playwright Lisa Kron and composer Jeanine Tesori adapting Alison Bechdel’s critically lauded graphic novel Fun Home to a stage musical via the Sundance Institute Theater Program.
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Alison’s Bechdel (creator or, more accurately, popularizer of the Bechdel Test) created a memoir that is part coming out story and part My Girl in her graphic novel Fun Home. When I was reading how she grew up in a funeral home, then the My Girl movie kept popping up in my mind, even though this was a vastly different story. I’m usually leery of memoirs. My feelings are that if someone had a nice fun boring life, then they wouldn’t write a memoir. It’s only when something goes really wrong that people feel the need to write about it. And those stories are usually fairly depressing (when something bad happens) or boring (when nothing happens), I usually just pass them by. But with all the good reviews Bechdel received, I decided to try Fun Home. So let’s see what growing up is like in a funeral home: