The Complete Essex County by Jeff Lemire
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This graphic novel collection was a Christmas gift that I’m very glad I received. I find it hard, at times, to purchase graphic novels because they can be expensive yet I can read them very quickly. I found myself slowing down with this collection, though, in a very good way. I wanted the story to last longer so I’d read maybe 10 pages at a time to make it last longer.
This collection is set in Essex County, Canada and there are quite a few characters who get to tell their various stories of farm life, rural nursing etc but somehow each of these people have a connection to the other which isn’t surprising when writing about small town life.
I’m really in awe of the variety of Canadian graphic novel work I’ve read over the last few years. Is that where the non-super hero comics are being made best of all?
Don’t think of this as a comic, but think of it as a novel with lots of pictures. A novel that covers generations of families in a small community. Think of it as a chance – if you haven’t read graphic novels before – for you to try a new genre at the top of its game.
I’m intrigued! Great review, as always!
Jessie, I saw where the Hunger Games is a movie. Didn’t you talk about the book? Any plans to see the movie?
I have read the first two books in “The Hunger Games” series. I’m intrigued by the movie, but we haven’t been going to the theater much at all lately. So many people at the movies are SO RUDE! We might just have to wait till it comes out on Netflix or RedBox