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bloodygranuaile) wrote2024-05-22 06:13 pm
bloodygranuaile) wrote2024-05-22 06:13 pm
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Possibly my favorite graphic novel
In Vermont this weekend I picked up a book I’d been considering buying for a while, since I wanted to reread it and I think it’s something I may wish to revisit periodically: Alison Bechdel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength, her memoir about her lifelong obsession with exercise, which also doubles as a tour of the last sixty years of American exercise fads and an introduction to transcendentalism.
I got home and read it all in one afternoon, with a break in the middle to do some yoga. It was just as good the second time around. It’s not as simple as that it’s relatable, as a fellow gay gym rat, since much of it isn’t, but a lot of it is. It’s just that the book is both funny and sad and also it goes all over the place but in a way that I like.
I got home and read it all in one afternoon, with a break in the middle to do some yoga. It was just as good the second time around. It’s not as simple as that it’s relatable, as a fellow gay gym rat, since much of it isn’t, but a lot of it is. It’s just that the book is both funny and sad and also it goes all over the place but in a way that I like.