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Anna N

@readeranna.bsky.social

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Grad student and book reviewer who ❤️ comics and scary movies and science and NYC public transit. Book reviews at: lesbrary.com/author/anna-n (she/her/hers) I don’t use AI for school/work/anything else. I worked hard for my words—and my dashes!

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Every time someone asks why and how I buy a book a month in this economy, I explain how I schedule months worth of releases every B&N preorder sale. Then one arrives ~per month. It's mostly manga and comics by people I know do good work. Like this one! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/in-your-sk...

Cover for trade paperback of In Your Skin graphic novel. Red background with moon-shaped circle in top center with the title in uppercase red lettering. Shows two women illustrated in greens, yellows, blacks and blues holding each other.

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Getting ready for movie night with friends 💚💚💚💚💚

A packet of Mexican origin coffee and a paperback Everyman edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein on a maroon velvet cloth

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

The Yossi Milo Gallery in NYC has a beautiful exhibition on through 08/22 of J. Carino‘s most recent paintings.

Side view photo of J. Carino‘s Looking Back (2025) painting. Oil and Acrylic paint on linen. 40 x 30 inches, showing upper half of figure in green with warm colored shadows lying next to water, also painted in shades of green.

Close-up photo of J. Carino’s American Progress (2025) painting. Oil and Acrylic on Linen. Close up shows donkey walking and man carrying wood on a background of oranges and browns with yellow slightly abstracted sunflowers heart them, next to a flowing river depicted in whorls of white and black. The close up is taken so the river takes up half the vertical photo and the man and donkey the other half.

Off-center photograph of J. Carino’s Flood (2025) painting. Oil and acrylic on linen. 48 x 48 inches. Shows a man painted with brown skin carefully, tenderly carrying a baby donkey through a flooding river, with a tree and the bank painted on the upper corner.

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

On chpt 2 of @sophiegilbert.bsky.social’s book and recalling Bethann Hardison’s “Invisible Beauty”. There’s a chilling moment on the shift to girls from behind the Iron Curtain. Showed, not told, how intersecting vulnerabilities left them more exploitable than adult models with literal agencies.

Cover of Sophie Gilbert’s Girl on Girl: How pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves, on pink floral bedspread

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I’ve been reading these lately. I keep them nearby on my shelves because they are examples of an artist using their craft to tell their story, and their history. Poetry, illustration, manga, comedy and even architectural design. These books remind me why art matters, why craft and intention matter.

Copies of Worm by Edel Rodriguez, Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hull, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, What is Home Mum by Sabba Khan, A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi on a pink floral bedspread.

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls is one of few books that I would describe as a tour de force. It is layers on layers on layers grappling with inherited histories, stories, lies and responsibilities where complex matrilineal pain is tied to national myths in a moving, intricately illustrated way.

Title page of Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hull. Black page with white font.

Inside first page of Part 2 of Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls. Part title “The collapse of one mythology”. Under title, quote from Ian McLachlan book Shanghai 1949: The End of an Era. Quote is “Is that, I ask myself, the point at which it all ends? The collapse of one mythology, the start of another?…But there is another story yet, as there always is. On the other side of the flat ideology is a knot of personal trauma.”

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

So excited to finally get my copy of Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death signed by @amychu.bsky.social. Also bought the latest Saga volume 💚💙 Please support you local comic stores today - I also got a lovely San Junipero comic preview and some neat horror ones from IDW for #FreeComicBookDay #FCBD

Title page of Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death paperback with partial author signature visible, lying on top of of speed racer, IDW Dark, Blood Type and Black Mirror issues from free comic book day.

Inside pages of free comic book day Black mirror issue illustrating San Junipero story from the Black Mirror tv show.

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Just got my copy of @miraongchua.com newest release! Very excited. The bookmarks are so cute 🤍💚🖤

Picture of “The Prince in the Basement” graphic novel held up against wooden floor with five character bookmarks sticking out of the right side in a fan shape. There is silver foil on the title and author’s name.

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

(This post was inspired by Hanamotogari by Schwinn and Bingo Love by Tee Franklin. Both are beautiful reads that made me cry.)

Cover image from 2018 paperback edition of Bingo Love by Tee Franklin, published by Image comics

Colored cover art for chapter 3 of Japanese webcomic Hanamotogari by Schwinn

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 18/05/2024

This one is very sweet and the coloring is wonderful.

Cover of graphic novel titled “Gaytheist: Coming Out of my Orthodox Childhood” by Lonnie Mann and Ryan Gatts. Cover shows young man in white button down and dark pants in a dark blue room gently pulling down blinds to see a bright golden light illuminate his face.

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Anna N @readeranna.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

“Paris” is a cute story about breaking the rules and finding love, a Cinderella story where the leads save themselves. And Emily Carroll’s latest is one of the best modern/contemporary gothic stories I’ve read in a while. And the COLORS 💖. Carrollms work only gets better with each book.

Photo of the cover of a graphic novel titled Paris by Andi Watson and Simon Gane. Library book.

Photo of the cover of a graphic novel titled A Guest In The House by Emily Carroll. Library book.

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