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The last Squirrel Girl :((((( What a gift this series has been. And honestly if it has to end I'm glad it could end with intentionality instead of just withering away. The specific story being told by this volume doesn't excite me as much as some, but it was still a delightful read, and I am so glad that the series ends by affirming the primary importance of the friendship between Doreen and Nancy. I love them so much.
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Yay more squirrel girl! This one featuring SKRULLS and the incredible notion that not everyone of a specific species is in fact naturally evil! This one's less funny than some but continues to be A+ content.
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Squirrel Girl continues to be the actual best!

The first issue in this volume is a self-contained story about time travel and I ADORED EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. Also this is the second time now that The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl has told a time travel story involving Doreen and Nancy's elderly selves being each other's Most Important Person and I am so here for it.

The rest of the volume covers Squirrel Girl's part in some title-spanning Marvel Comics event, and like, whatever about the event, but the Squirrel Girl story was charming. I loved the stuff about Ratatoskr and Doreen's team-up, and Loki's presence is always a delight. And the whales' reactions to Rachel!! Amazing.
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The person who’s been the artist for all of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl up to this point left after the last volume, and someone new started here. I miss Erica’s art so much! The new person is good too, much better than I was fearing when I heard there’d be a replacement artist, but nobody can live up to Erica Henderson.

But that aside, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl continues to be a TOTAL DELIGHT. God I love this comic. In this volume: escape rooms! the nature of personal growth and redemption! friendship! the best ever sense of humour! LOVE IT.

(Also a brief mention of Squirrel Girl’s childhood friendship with Ana Sofia* which I am SUPER PUMPED ABOUT and I just want Doreen and Ana Sofia to STILL BE FRIENDS AND PART OF EACH OTHER’S LIVES, one small mention merely WHETS MY APPETITE FOR MORE)

*Ana Sofia is Doreen’s best friend from the middle-grade novels about Squirrel Girl by Shannon and Dean Hale.
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I recently caught up on Squirrel Girl trades that are out so far! Which means I've now read volumes 6, 7, and 8 and am up to the equivalent of issue #32.

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 6: Who Run the World? Squirrels, by Ryan North

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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 7: I've Been Waiting For A Squirrel Like You, by Ryan North

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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Volume 8: My Best Friend's Squirrel, by Ryan North

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At any rate the world doesn't stop having good books in it just because everything else is horrible.

Here's a collection of short book thoughts about some books I liked, that aren't substantive or spoilery enough thoughts to get their own posts.


The True Meaning of Smekday, by Adam Rex

A reread. Still an impressively successful and delightful book! A kid's book about alien invasion(s), told from the point of view of a young biracial girl, with the conceit that it was written by her for a school project with a goal of it ending up in a time capsule. Tip is a really engaging narrator, and the themes the book is addressing are all well handled, and it's just all SO GOOD. I have a lot of feelings.

Also http://archiveofourown.org/works/1087542 is pretty much exactly right for what happens after the book imo. I love this fic. (though really I ought to read the ACTUAL Smek sequel at some point I think. There is one now!)


Quilting: Poems 1987-1990, by Lucille Clifton

An interesting collection of poems written by an African-American woman. Worth reading, though I have nothing to say about it because I'm not comfortable enough yet with poetry to have the words to describe it.


Dogsbody, by Diana Wynne Jones

A well written and charming book, as is to be expected from DWJ. I'm not the right audience for it, since I don't particularly care one way or another about dogs, and our main character is fairly thoroughly a dog for much of the book. But DWJ is a good enough writer to keep me invested despite this, and I did care an awful lot about Kathleen!


The Emperor's Soul, by Brandon Sanderson

A reread. I still love this book. But do I have anything else to say about it that I didn't say last time? No.


The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel, You Really Got Me Now, by Ryan North, art by Erica Henderson

A total delight, just like the last two Squirrel Girl tpbs! I love Ryan North's sense of humour, and Erica Henderson's art is perfect for the story. Doreen and her friends are all amazing, and I love just about everything about this book.

However. The last two issues in this collection are a two-part crossover with Howard Duck. The first part (done by the Squirrel Girl team) was just about as good as the rest of the series but the second part (done by the Howard Duck team) I just wasn't as into. It wasn't as funny or as charming, and I didn't like the art as much, and I just didn't care as much. It's too bad that this is the note the book ended on, because the rest of the book had me gleeful all the way through.
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1. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Power
2. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel You Know It's True
both by Ryan North, illustrated by Erica Henderson

WHERE HAS SQUIRREL GIRL BEEN ALL MY LIFE.

I was cackling with delight all the way through. I don't even know what to say. I say things )

AND SO FORTH, I could keep going with many exclamation points for a long time. The long and the short of it is: yes good more please.

And like: I know this is an ongoing comic and I know there are more issues out that have not yet been released in trade paperback. So I COULD read them if I wanted to pay ridiculous prices for short and flimsy single-issue releases. But that's not how I prefer to read/buy comics. Sigh, my life is so hard.
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I AM BACKKKK! Well actually I returned late sunday night but then I was exhausted and also I have work and also catching up on the real life things I wasn't doing while on vacation, so. I am still exhausted but I am at least nominally kind of here! AND I COME WITH LOTS OF BOOKS.

Look, my vacation was CANOE TRIPPING, which when you do it right (which obvs I do) leaves you lots of time to hang out in the beautiful wilderness with a book. So. I read NINE BOOKS while on vacation! Plus I had a couple I didn't post about from before the trip. Plus I read a book yesterday. So. Let's go!

Wired Love: a Romance of Dots and Dashes, by Ella Cheever Thayer )

Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril & Romance, by Marthe Jocelyn )

Monks-Hood, by Ellis Peters )

Complete Fairy Tales of George MacDonald )

The Confession of Brother Haluin, by Ellis Peters )

The Android's Dream, by John Scalzi )

The Wisdom of Father Brown, by GK Chesterton )

Psmith, Journalist, by PG Wodehouse )

A Matter of Oaths, by Helen S Wright )

Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy L Sayers )

Strong Poison, by Dorothy L Sayers )

Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale )

Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L Sayers )

Poor Yorick, by Ryan North, William Shakespeare, and YOU )

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