Revenge of the Librarians: Cartoons by Tom Gauld

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If you’ve read any other Gauld comic strips, you know a bit of what to expect. Short witty strips usually about literature (being a professional writer, struggling through the classics, enjoying a book on the beach, fun strips to help you develop plots for your next novel).

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Digital Reads A Curse For True Love : the thrilling final book in the Once Upon a Broken Heart series Cyn is way excited to be spending the summer with her super-hot new boyfriend at drama camp. What could possibly go wrong? I have the honour of owning an original drawing of one of the strips featured here, the one about a writer having a great idea… for lunch. It was cool to see it in full-colour here for the first time, I’ve been looking at it for at-least a couple years now. I keep it above my desk because in the mornings having a great idea for lunch is really the only great ideas I can conjure up.

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I kind of wished that Cyn would have been more honest and upfront with Ryan so we could have avoided some of the boyfriend drama (though that drama did end up playing an important role in her battle against demons, oddly enough), and I missed a little bit of the charm that the last book had for me, BUT as a musical theater lover, I was super connected to the fun camp setting and to Cyn’s connection to theater. I also still found Cyn to be a sassy and snarky narrator—a style that gets me every time. This installment got 4/5 stars from me. So, this book continues on with the evil librarian defeated and Cyn, the MC, and Ryan, her once crush and now boyfriend head off to musical theatre camp where they hope to focus on theatre and no demons. Naturally, that isn't to be the case. The playwright is a demonic, self-professed good demon, but a demon nonetheless. It’s summer and Cyn is flush from her victory over the Evil Librarian Mr. Gabriel, who had nearly seduced Cyn’s best friend Annie into becoming his demon-world bride. I reiterate once again, The fact that the demoness said one sentence in this whole thing missed the mark. She was a pivotal role in the first book (as Cyn owed her 2 favors from the deal they made in book 1) and should have had a far bigger role in this story, involving pivotal interaction between her, Cyn, Ryan, And Peter. It should have been all around more crazy and chaotic (just like the first book), more humour, more exciting in a Buffy the vampire slayer sort of way, more snarky, a lot more of hell involved (literally and figuratively), more terrifying, and much more interaction between key characters. This book of comic strips are mainly about writing and editing, not so much about libraries. Book buying (how many, how often, keep or give away, etc) also plays a part.

Revenge of the Librarians’ by Tom Gauld: A Book Review ‘Revenge of the Librarians’ by Tom Gauld: A Book Review

At first glance, Cyn appears to be an average teen bent on having the best summer of her life. She's a talented set designer, she's going to a camp for theater enthusiasts with her cute boyfriend Ryan, and she has an amazing group of friends. But Cyn isn't a typical teenager, and this isn't going to be an ordinary summer for her. As Cyn faces obstacles, both human and supernatural, she will learn the true meaning of love, friendship and inner strength. I read and enjoyed the first one, so I requested this without reading the synopsis and just read blind...and I was a bit disappointed. It was clever, although there were some which I flat out did not get. I appreciated when he took a group of books and changed their titles in a particular direction, such as, classic novels with added positivity: Merriment on the Orient Express; Life in Venice; Twelve Agreeable Men; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spa; Portnoy's Compliment and Finnegan's Birthday Party. And there was classics reissued with lower standards: The Adequate Mr. Ripley; George's Passable Medicine; Reasonable Expectations; The Mediocre Wizard of Oz and The OK Gatsby. Those were fun. Gli stessi schemi si ripetono in continuazione all'interno del libro: ricorrono spesso espedienti identici e, fondamentalmente, viene utilizzata sempre un'unica dinamica umoristica. Molto simile alle due raccolte precedenti, "Baking with Kafka" e "Department of Mind-Blowing Theories", anche per le idee di alcune strisce, con la sola differenza che questa, forse, si rivolge ad un target più ristretto, considerando che una gran parte dei jokes siano riferiti alla categoria degli scrittori.Is this Revenge of the Librarians the best book ever created? It does have to beat some pretty stiff competition, but I’m still going to say yes! What Is Revenge of the Librarians? Library card and book plate inserts for the publisher's edition. Image sourced from the publisher Drawn and Quarterly. Shedding – Anastasia Hiorns’ Abstract Comics Don’t So Much Communicate a Narrative as Provide a Catalyst for One Perfect amount of horror to make things creepy at times but not overly scary and not overly done. Also a bit of a nice romantic touch involving Cyn and Peter and Cyn and Ryan.