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Over Easy (2014)

by Mimi Pond(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1770461531 (ISBN13: 9781770461536)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Drawn and Quarterly

review 1: I remember moving to Berkeley at around the same age that the fictionalized heroine moves to Oakland, getting a job in a record store, and being so UTTERLY FASCINATED by all the NEW AND UTTERLY FASCINATING PEOPLE that I met. But it wasn't really the record store scene, or Berkeley, or the birth of punk or whatever. It was just being totally in love with youth and a sense of possibility. I really wanted to like Mimi Pond, and this book, and to identify with it bc I kind of went through the same thing and in the same place. But I didn't because I'm not 22 anymore. A memoir implies that there's some insight to looking back but I didn't find any insight here. The art's pretty awesome though.
review 2: A friend lent me this graphic novel, which centers on a young wo... moreman in 1978 who takes a job at Mama's Royal Cafe (about 6 blocks away from my house). I picked it up while killing a few minutes before going out for a bit; when I got back I sat down and read the rest straight through in one sitting. I think it would be engaging and enjoyable for anyone but has a special joy for those of us who live in this neighborhood, for whom the drawn landscape is so familiar. less

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