
here I go again: would you contemplate the idea of buying some non-fictional graphic novels to have in the library? (I mean the type of Maus, Persepolis, Palestine, Cancer Vixen etc, etc, etc) Last summer I had applied for a 'grant' for this purpose but no success then. But I still think that they would be a great addition to the library, they are a sort of new type of literature that most people have not yet encountered and therefore enjoy because they are prejudged as 'comics' and dismissed.
However it happens often that once the first one is read one gets hooked!
Their price is around £15 and we would have to choose between getting them from Amazon (half price) or buy them from a local bookshop such as Word Power thus helping the community and independent bookshops. I would say the core of the main ones is about 6 (to cover for a variety of styles and subject)
And we would definitely put a heavy warning to discourage being taken away.... I suggest we say that if any one disappears the whole lot will be withdrawn and perhaps from then on only volunteers will have access to them.
I leave you to ruminate... and if you want to get further convinced check them out at Word Power, they have a great collection.
