Published in paper via kickstarter by Iron Circus Comics for the first time in 2017, As the Crow Flies focuses on Charlie Lamonte who is attending a Christian youth backpacking camp. She is black and thirteen years old, surrounded by women and girls who are looking to empower themselves … and are also all white. […]
Read More February 2019: As the Crow Flies by Melanie GillmanTrainspotting (1996) Directed by Danny Boyle 89 minutes Floor 3 Pink Zone 791.4372 TRA Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose Trainspotting. Danny Boyle’s film consistently ranks among the best British films ever made. At times hard hitting, at times comical, Trainspotting offers a gritty look at the lives of […]
Read More Trainspotting [1996]Directed by Vittorio De Sica 87 minutes Floor 3 Pink Zone 791.4372 LAD Language: Italian (English subtitles) If you have ever read Sight & Sound’s greatest films list, released each decade, you would have noticed a regular occurrence of Bicycle Thieves. The film topped in their 1952 Critic’s Poll and placed in the top ten […]
Read More Bicycle Thieves [1948]In this graphic novel, the main character, Anda, is introduced to an online multiplayer game for the first time and joins the woman-only guild called Clan Fahrenheit. While it’s all just good fun at first, we soon learn that online gaming can be much more complicated. In Real Life is a cute, fast-paced story that […]
Read More January 2019: In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen WangDo you like podcasts? Do you like comics? Are you not sure? Then We’ve Got issues is the podcast for you! Jumping off our Monthly Graphic Novel Recommendation, this podcasts talks about why we (didn’t) like reading our chosen title, which bits were our favourites and what were some of the more difficult things it made us […]
Read More “WE’VE GOT ISSUES” PRESENTS: EPISODE 4 – “GHOST WORLD”Directed by John McTiernan 132 minutes Floor 3 Pink Zone 791.4372 DIE Everyone likes to spend their Christmas differently, and everyone likes to watch different films over the Christmas break. I know this after having a discussion with a student whose flatmates chose The Human Centipede (2009) as their Christmas film – a far cry from our […]
Read More Die Hard [1988]Directed by Frank Capra 130 minutes Floor 3 Pink Zone 791.4372 ITS On polls of the best Christmas films of all time It’s a Wonderful Life always ranks towards the top, usually as number one. It may surprise you to then learn that the film has deep themes of depression and even suicide. I would […]
Read More It’s A Wonderful Life [1947]As part of our Black History Month celebrations, and to launch our new Read At Leicester texts, the Library hosted a series of book clubs called LitLunches. Every Monday in October, students and staff met for an hour to discuss a specific essay from The Good Immigrant (2016), and here’s a quick summary of some […]
Read More LitLunches: “The Good Immigrant” – Write UpOriginally published between 1993 and 1997, Ghost World is an interesting take on the relationship between two girls in a small American town. Having just graduated high-school, the two seem at a loss for how to begin their transition into adulthood or the next stage and navigate this difficult landscape through cynicism, pseudo-intellectual pretensions or […]
Read More December 2018: Ghost World by Daniel ClowesDo you like podcasts? Do you like comics? Are you not sure? Then We’ve Got issues is the podcast for you! Jumping off our Monthly Graphic Novel Recommendation, this podcasts talks about why we (didn’t) like reading our chosen title, which bits were our favourites and what were some of the more difficult things it made us […]
Read More “We’ve Got Issues” Presents: Episode 3 – “Suffragette”