Book Club – Shubeik Lubeik

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.

Shubeik Lubeik

by Deena Mohamed

Meeting to discuss:  Saturday May 11.  Noon.

Three wishes that are sold at an unassuming kiosk in Cairo link Aziza, Nour, and Shokry, changing their perspectives as well as their lives. Aziza learned early that life can be hard, but when she loses her husband and manages to procure a wish, she finds herself fighting bureau­cracy and inequality for the right to have—and make—that wish. Nour is a privileged college student who secretly struggles with depression and must decide whether or not to use their wish to try to “fix” this depression, and then figure out how to do it. And, finally, Shokry must grapple with his religious convictions as he decides how to help a friend who doesn’t want to use their wish. Deena Mohamed brings to life a cast of characters whose struggles and triumphs are heartbreaking, inspiring, and deeply resonant.

Although their stories are fantastical—featuring talking donkeys, dragons, and cars that can magically avoid traffic—each of these people grapples with the very real challenge of trying to make their most deeply held desires come true.

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

10/14 /23 Always Never

11/11/23 Swamp Thing Green Hell

12/16/23 Monica

1/13/24 Eight Billion Genies

2/10/24 Aquaman: Andromeda

3/9/24 Do A Powerbomb

4/13/24 Wonder Woman Historia

5/11/24 Shubeik Lubeik