Book Club – Always Never

 

Each month we select a notable graphic novel for the book club.  It is 25% Off to everyone all month.  At the end of the month we meet to discuss.

This month’s selection is

Always Never

by Jordi Lafebre (Author, Illustrator), Clémence Sapin (Illustrator)

Eisner Nominated for Best International Material

After forty years of being madly in love, Ana and Zeno are finally retiring and giving their romance a chance to bloom while they both still have time left. A unique but relatable love story told in reverse, with each chapter stepping further back through the decades of touch and go courting, showing both the heartbreaking moments that kept the two lovers apart and the beautiful moments that kept their flame alive. This isn’t a tale of missed connections and regret but rather a story celebrating the complexities of family, responsibility, destiny, and how love persists across time with complete disregard for all of that.

Ana is a brilliant, headstrong, and compassionate mayor of a small city, with a lovely husband, daughter, and granddaughter. Yet there has been a lingering piece of her life missing — a thread of happiness she hasn’t been able to pull on for most of her life. Zeno, a lifelong bachelor, bookstore owner, intrepid traveler, and theoretical physicist determined to figure out how to turn back time. Handsome, clever, and kind, he is often questioned about his failure to “settle down.” Over the years, they have woven together an impossible and inexhaustible love. Their paths constantly intertwining, from a chance meeting on a boat to clumsily bumping into each other in the city they share. Eventually keeping in touch by letters and late-night phone calls across the world.

PAST SELECTIONS:

6/4/11 Morning Glories

7/9/11 Irredeemable

8/6/11 Chew

9/10/11 Batwoman: Elegy

10/8/11 Fables 1 Legends in Exile

11/5/11 Marvel Zombies 1

12/3/11 Green Hornet: Sins of our Fathers 1

2/11/12 Sandman 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

3/3/12  The New Teen Titans: Games

4/12/12 Return of the Dapper Men

6/2/12  Asterios Polyp

8/22/12  Watchmen

10/12/12 Locke & Key 1

12/12/12 Christmas Carole

2/13/13 Invincible

4/13/13 Building Stories

6/18/13 Prophet

8/3/13 Young Inhumans

9/16/13 Midnight Nation

10/13/13 Hawkeye: 1 My life as a weapon

12/28/13  Blacksad

2/12/14 Porcelain

3/29/14 Saga 1

5/17/14 Fatale 1

6/25/14 The Property

8/2/14 Good Dog

9/3/14 Trillium

10/1/14 Rat Queens

11/8/14 WinterWorld

12/5/14 Black Widow 1

1/10/15 Astro City: Life in the Big City

2/28/15 Beautiful Darkness

3/28/15 Seconds

4/25/15 The Wake

5/24/15 Here

6/27/15 This One Summer

7/25/15 Gigantic Beard That Was Evil

9/5/15 The Wicked and the Divine

10/3/15 Black Science: 1

11/7/15 Wytches

12/5/15 Nimona

1/30/16 Jessica Jones: AKA Alias

3/5/16 Supermutant Magic Academy

4/19/16 Private Eye

5/14/16 Southern Bastard

6/11/16 Lady Killer

7/16/16 Long Walk to Valhalla

8/13/16 Monstress

9/10/16 Paper Girls

10/15/16 Panther

11/12/16 Afterlife with Archie

12/10/16 Ruins

1/7/17 Klaus

2/17/17 Mooncop

4/1/17 Sheriff of Babylon

5/13/17 Vision: 1

6/27/17 Eartha

7/29/17 Lennon

8/26/17 Wonder Woman: A True Amazon

9/30/17  Patience

10/28/17 Halloween Tales

11/25/17 My Favorite Things is Monsters

1/6/18 Daytripper

2/10/18 Snotgirl: Green Hair Don’t Care

3/17/18 Black Panther

4/7/18 Niourk

5/12/18 Killing & Dying

6/9/18 Infinity Gauntlet

7/14/18 Black Hammer

8/11/18 Boundless

9/8/18 I Kill Giants

10/20/18 Rome West

12/1/18 Dark Nights Metal

12/29/18 Skyward

2/2/19 Roughneck

3/2/19 Upgrade Soul

4/6/19 WaterSnakes

5/11/19 The Lie and How We Told It

6/8/19 Mister Miracle

7/13/19 Immortal Hulk

8/10/19 Come Again

9/14/19 My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies

10/5/19 Batman White Knight

11/2/19 Bone Parish 1 & 2

12/14/19 Exit Stage Left

1/4/20 Heroes in Crisis

2/1/20 Sabrina

3/7/20 Green Lantern: Intergalactic Lawman

4/18/20 Star Trek Next Generation Mirror Broken

6/13/20 DIE

7/11/20 Something is Killing the Children

8/8/20 Once & Future

9/12/20 Freedom Fighters

10/10/20 Are you Listening?

11/14/20 Uzamaki

12/12/20 Cats of the Louvre

1/4/21 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank

2/13/21 The House

3/13/21 Dracula MotherF**cker

4/10/21 Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen

5/8/21 Dead Day

6/18/21 Rogue Planet

7/10/21 We Only Find Them When They Are Dead

8/7/21 Eight-Lane Runaways

9/11/21 Resistance

10/9/21 Pulp

11/13/21 Basketful of Heads

12/11/21 Department of Truth

1/8/22 Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

2/19/22 Stray Dogs

3/12/22 Graveneye

4/9/22 Oksi

5/14 Carthago

6/11/22 I want to eat your pancreas

7/9/22 Bubble

8/13/22 Ballad of Sophie

9-10 In.

10/8/22 Destroy All Monsters

11/12/22 You Died an Anthology of the Afterlife

12/10/22 Monsters

1/14/23 Goblin Girl

2/11/23 Fantastic Four Full Circle

3/11/23 Ducks

4/8/23 Radiant Black

5/13/23 Nice House on the Lake

6/10/23 TMNT – Last Ronin

7/8/23 Catwoman Lonely City

8/12/23 Rain

9/9/23 Chivalry

10/ /23 Always Never