February 9, 2023
Our Librarian Recommends …
Marinette campus librarian Carli Reinecke says she’s been into graphic novels and audiobooks recently. If you enjoy them, too, check out this short list of her favorites, newly available in the library:
Come Home, Indio: Cartoonist Jim Terry, whose mother is Ho-Chunk and father is Irish American, shares his experiences as a mixed-race man who never quite felt like he belonged anywhere. The child of alcoholic parents, Terry went through his own struggles with alcoholism, and it wasn’t until he sought belonging in both his father’s and his mother’s communities, including attaining his “spiritual awakening” at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in Standing Rock, South Dakota, that he went into recovery and found his place in the world.Carli’s take: “I was so pleasantly surprised when I started reading this graphic novel and found that much of the plot is in the Wisconsin Dells. I loved the honesty of author’s experiences, and the illustrations really immerse you in the story.”
This is How I Disappear: In this graphic novel, Mirion Malle tells the story of Clara, a millennial woman struggling with writer’s block, depression, a “useless” psychologist, and a demanding job in publishing. While Clara has no trouble advising her friends over their woes, she doesn’t do as well when it comes to asking them for help in return. Note: Contains mentions of sexual assault and self-harm, as well as depression. Carli’s take: “Having been through my own periods of deep depression, I thought this was a beautiful depiction of what it actually feels like to be lost in the throes of overwhelming sadness while trying to come out of it.”
All Good People Here: In this New York Times bestseller, Ashley Flowers, host of the popular true-crime podcast Crime Junkies, tries her hand at fiction. All Good People Here follows big-city journalist Margot Davies as she returns home to Wakarusa, Indiana, to care for an uncle with dementia. When a five-year-old girl in the town goes missing, the similarities to the murder of six-year-old January Jacobs have Margot and the rest of the community recalling that cold case from long ago. Jacobs was the same age as Margot, who has never been able to shake the feeling that she could have been the one who was kidnapped 20 years prior.Carli’s take: “This audiobook is for anyone who loves a good true-crime podcast. I literally could not stop listening to it, and I never knew what was coming next. I also thought the narrator read the book wonderfully, and I am usually picky!”