{"id":23448,"date":"2015-04-17T16:08:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T21:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=23448"},"modified":"2015-04-17T16:08:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T21:08:57","slug":"vahamaki-amanda-its-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=23448","title":{"rendered":"Vahamaki, Amanda – It’s Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s Tuesday<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Sometimes a title really nails the tone of a book, even when it’s a seemingly
\nnonsense title like “It’s Tuesday.” And, well, that’s what happens here. This is the
\nstory of a typical Tuesday in (according to the back of the comic) “a small town
\nsomewhere in southern Finland.” Once you get past that eye-catching explosion of
\ncolor on the front cover, things start off slowly and more or less stay that way,
\nmuch like it would in a typical small town on a random day. There’s a cat watching
\nsome people gather apples from the ground, the apples being put out by the side of
\nthe road for anybody who wants them, and we move to a flea market. A gentleman has
\njust dropped off five garbage bags filled with clothes, and the shopkeeper quickly
\nrealizes that it would make more sense for her to wait until the day when her helper
\nworks to start going through the bags. If all this sounds dull as can be, you’re
\nprobably looking for another book entirely, one with explosions and robots, or
\nexploding robots. There’s nothing wrong with that, in moderation, but this one is
\nfor the more contemplative moods. Anyway, there’s no sense in me going through this
\nbeat by beat, but other bits I thoroughly enjoyed include the appraisal of a
\npainting by a moody teenager (and the scene later when this teenager reads over some
\nof her old diary entries and cringes in embarrassment), a babysitter trying to find
\na polite way out of buying some clothes that she doesn’t want, and the creep who
\ntends to wander through the woods naked and is still on the loose. Translations are
\nalways tricky in books like this, but I really appreciated the fact that Amanda went
\nthrough and put the English in for certain signs and locations around town, as it
\nreally helped flesh this tiny world out. I thoroughly enjoyed this, in other words,
\nand bonus points to whoever did the coloring for this book, as it was stellar
\nthroughout.<\/p>\n

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