{"id":245,"date":"2010-07-24T09:09:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T14:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2010-10-31T18:55:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T00:55:36","slug":"my-first-graphic-novel-kimmie66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"My First Graphic Novel: kimmie66"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/kimmie66.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-246\" title=\"kimmie66\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/kimmie66-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/kimmie66-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/kimmie66.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just finished reading my first graphic novel (book 2 of 20 in my challenge)! I read kimmie66 by Aaron Alexovich. I&#8217;m not sure why it&#8217;s taken me so long to commit to reading a graphic novel. I&#8217;ve flipped through them many times, but they just haven&#8217;t grabbed me before. I knew that a graphic novel would have to be one of my first YA books in my challenge because they&#8217;ve become so popular. I browsed through the library&#8217;s collection and selected this one because it was a stand-alone novel and it wasn&#8217;t too terribly long. It took me a while to get into the groove of reading, with the boxes and bubbles and pictures all over the place. It&#8217;s quite the transition from reading straight words across a page. Once I got the hang of it, though, I really did enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>kimmie66 tells the story of a 23rd century girl named Telly who is searching for the truth about her virtual world friend that sent her a suicide note. It was an interesting story line and definitely grabbed me. I can also say that I now see the appeal of graphic novels: they give our ADD generation of kids an opportunity to read a novel quickly, while keeping them entertained with the pictures and ever-changing format. I&#8217;m quite proud of myself for getting over my aversion to graphic novels. While I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll devour them in droves, I&#8217;ll definitely be reading more in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading my first graphic novel (book 2 of 20 in my challenge)! I read kimmie66 by Aaron Alexovich. I&#8217;m not sure why it&#8217;s taken me so long to commit to reading a graphic novel. I&#8217;ve flipped through them many times, but they just haven&#8217;t grabbed me before. I knew that a graphic<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=245\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}