What we’re reading this week

Posted on August 26, 2005 by Brigid Alverson

As we haven’t been able to get away for a vacation this year, my two daughters are sitting around reading manga the way some people eat potato chips. My 12-year-old is up to volume 12 of Kare Kano and volume 5 of DN Angel, while the 11-year-old is reading and re-reading Gals!, the latest Fruits Basket, and Full Moon. We’ve also been passing around 50 Rules for Teenagers, an old-ish manwha that everyone except my husband likes. I just picked up the Papercutz graphic novel of Nancy Drew (volume 1) but haven’t got to read it because the girls got it first. And I bought Midori Days but found it disappointing; the story is just too weird for me.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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