{"id":1613,"date":"2011-03-01T18:09:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T01:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2011-03-07T17:45:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T00:45:41","slug":"new-week-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=1613","title":{"rendered":"New Week; New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chew: Taster's Choice<\/p><\/div>\n

I freaked Kevin out yesterday. \u00a0He came home and found me reading. \u00a0Now, that in an of itself is not odd. \u00a0What caused him to do a double take was the fact that I was reading a graphic novel. \u00a0That tends to be Kevin’s home turf, not mine. \u00a0But my hold list at the library is deep and wide so I really never know what will pop up on the shelf for me. \u00a0Sometime in the murky past someone recommended this book to me and it finally found it’s way into my hands. \u00a0 And although it is rather gruesome, it is also rather delightful.<\/p>\n

My experience with graphic novels is pretty grim. \u00a0Mostly spandex clad muscle me and\u00a0frighteningly\u00a0busty women all deeply conflicted and trying to “Do Right.” \u00a0The pictures are circus color bright and the writing full of\u00a0exclamation\u00a0marks and sounds like “SPLAT!” or “K-THUNK!” \u00a0Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a bit of escapism as much as the next girl but most super hero comic books just don’t butter my\u00a0biscuit.<\/p>\n

However, I should also confess that as a young kid I adored Mad Magazine. \u00a0I loved the goofy drawings and all the little funny jokes hidden in the background of each page. \u00a0I even remember playing Mad the board game and loving it. \u00a0Alfred E. Newman. \u00a0Ha! \u00a0Perhaps that is why I liked Chew. \u00a0The drawings are Mad-esque and there are funny little scribbles hidden throughout. \u00a0I actually found myself scouring each picture looking for the joke. \u00a0The story itself is strange and slightly disgusting. \u00a0Our hero has the ability to see the past of everything he eats. \u00a0This poses difficulties for him when trying to enjoy a nice pork roast but also leads him to join the FDA where he takes bites out of corpses, dead pets and severed fingers to find out the identity of bad guys. \u00a0Gross, right? \u00a0But also funny, dark, and strangely addictive. \u00a0I’m actually going to put the next volume on my hold list. \u00a0Not for the squeamish or the very young, but perfect for the odd duck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I freaked Kevin out yesterday. \u00a0He came home and found me reading. \u00a0Now, that in an of itself is not odd. \u00a0What caused him to do a double take was the fact that I was reading a graphic novel. \u00a0That tends to be Kevin’s home turf, not mine. \u00a0But my hold list at the library […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-q1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}