{"id":4397,"date":"2017-05-26T17:19:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T17:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2017-05-26T17:19:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T17:19:12","slug":"imagine-wanting-only-this-by-kristen-radtke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4397","title":{"rendered":"Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4406\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Imagine-Wanting-Only-This-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Imagine-Wanting-Only-This-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Imagine-Wanting-Only-This.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/>I hadn&#8217;t before read a graphic novel (or in this case, a graphic memoir), so Kristen Radtke&#8217;s <em>Imagine Wanting Only This<\/em> was new territory for me. \u00a0I was drawn to this book because of its topic, rather than its format. \u00a0In it, Radtke explores her fascination with architectural ruins, relating them to her own sense of the impermanence of life and her grief over losing a close relative. \u00a0Never feeling rooted or settled, she travels the world visiting abandoned towns and structures as they are slowly reclaimed by nature.<\/p>\n<p>Radtke tells her story in direct, unfussy language and compelling black and white drawings. \u00a0In some pages, she\u00a0conforms to the traditional three to nine\u00a0frame comic format, and in others her drawings overlap the frame or incorporate collage or drawn-over photographic elements, giving the book a lot of life, and the reader plenty of incentive to keep turning the pages.\u00a0 Radtke\u2019s story is poignant, her illustrations lovely.\u00a0\u00a0This book quickly hooked me and I read it in one sitting.\u00a0 I now consider it a favorite. \u00a0This is a great entry point into the graphic book format, and I recommend it to new graphic book readers (and experienced graphic readers won&#8217;t want to miss it).\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1690777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Request a copy.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t before read a graphic novel (or in this case, a graphic memoir), so Kristen Radtke&#8217;s Imagine Wanting Only This was new territory for me. \u00a0I was drawn to this book because of its topic, rather than its format. \u00a0In it, Radtke explores her fascination with architectural ruins, relating them to her own sense &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4397\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-elizabeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}