Taylor, Rebecca – The Wonderful Year #8

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The Wonderful Year #8

It’s hard to complain too much about something that’s getting better with every issue. Or maybe this issue is just so great that it makes me think they’ve been getting better with each issue, who knows? The important thing is that this is one of the best portrayals of a brother/sister relationship through the years that I’ve seen. Plenty of embarrassing things are shown from childhood, but they’re all real things, just things that people don’t talk about once they grow up. Then there’s the strained relationship with her roommate, which goes back to her trying to deal with her brother, and the way things are now. Or the way things were fairly recently, it’s still a bit tough for me to keep track of a linear chain of events in her books. Still, there’s more honest, pure emotion and unstated self-analysis in this issue than most auto-bio books have in their whole run. Contact info is up there, check this one out right away, then go back and get the other issues…