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 "slug": "memoir",
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 "content": [
  {
   "markdown": "\n\nAlso, I’m only half way though, but the most recent Alison Bechdel book The Secret to Superhuman Strength is fantastic. Wierdly, a reading exprience most similar to watching a prime era Jonathan Meades documentary.",
   "data": {
    "title": "The Secret to Superhuman Strength",
    "authors": [
     "Alison Bechdel"
    ],
    "editors": [
     ""
    ],
    "translator": "",
    "date": "2022-10-29",
    "rating": "+",
    "re-read": false,
    "pages": 240,
    "non-fiction": true,
    "comic": true,
    "published": 2021,
    "image": "",
    "tags": [
     "memoir",
     "gay"
    ]
   }
  },
  {
   "markdown": "\nI stumbled across a zine, a kind of first draft of this book, in Gosh comics many years ago and I was immediately charmed. I hadn't thought about it much in the years since, I was vagueuy aware that it was to be expanded and published \"properly\" but it hadn't relly crossed my mind until I stumbled upon it in [our local library](https://www.haringey.gov.uk/libraries-sport-and-leisure/libraries/hornseylibrary) whilst J was reading chemistry revision books (this is a semi-regular saturday mornig activity for us). Anyway, I do kind of miss the nervy sketchyness of the earlier versions drawings but this is still a great example of the surprisingly crowded comic-memoir genre.\n\nWhat is it about comics that lend themselves to this kind of light autobiographical writing I wonder? Relatedly, I really loved Alison Bechdel's [The Secret to Superhuman Strength](book-The-Secret-to-Superhuman-Strength(2021))\n",
   "data": {
    "title": "The Times I knew I was Gay",
    "authors": [
     "Eleanor Crewes"
    ],
    "date": "2024-02-15",
    "rating": "+",
    "re-read": false,
    "pages": 320,
    "non-fiction": true,
    "comic": true,
    "published": 2020,
    "image": "https://static.2x2.graphics/assets/books/the-times-i-knew-i-was-gay.webp",
    "tags": [
     "memoir",
     "gay"
    ],
    "editors": [
     ""
    ],
    "translator": ""
   }
  },
  {
   "markdown": "\nI didn't get into this one as much as [This Is The Place To Be](book-This-Is-The-Place-To-Be(2016)) which I liked enogh to buy for a couple of people. It's kind of  a psychogeography thing but with objects instead of places, everything freighted with meaning, the longer Pawson looks at things the more stories and memories and associations unfurl. Whilst I wasn't enthralled it was interesting to me specifically because I find the opposite; the more I stare at stuff the more it seems to loose meaning and asscocation. Kind of like [semantic-satiation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation), after a while things just turn into shapes and light and dark and what they \"are\" or \"mean\" evaporates.\n",
   "data": {
    "title": "Spent Light",
    "authors": [
     "Lara Pawson"
    ],
    "date": "2024-11-30",
    "rating": "",
    "re-read": false,
    "pages": 135,
    "non-fiction": false,
    "comic": false,
    "published": 2024,
    "image": "https://static.2x2.graphics/assets/books/spent-light.webp",
    "tags": [],
    "editors": [
     ""
    ],
    "translator": ""
   }
  }
 ]
}