Henrik is a “vegan Swedish swing dancer and former mathematician who lives in a commune” just outside Stockholm. Knisley then travels to Stockholm to be with Henrik, whom she has met earlier in New York (and known only “for a couple of days”). The usual suspects, I suppose, if you are a food and culture curious comics artist visiting Norway. Knisley mostly does comic artist things in Norway-meeting fellow artists, giving talks, conducting comics workshops for kids, while also eating Norwegian foods, sightseeing and sketching, attending free outdoor concerts, drawing in cafes, strolling through Norwegian streets, visiting beer bars.

Knisley is invited to a comics fest in Norway and decides to make a trip out of it: romance a cute Swede in Stockholm, visit honeymooning friends in Berlin, taste wine and spend time with a vacationing mother in France, before finally flying back home to New York. On many levels, Displacement was reminiscent of Roz Chast’s terrific graphic memoir, Can’t we talk about something more pleasant? (2014).Īge of License is just as much about youth being a time of endless possibilities, as Displacement is about the frailty and finality of advanced age. I have read Displacement : A Travelogue(2015) where Knisley writes and draws about a cruise she takes with her 90-something grandparents and delves honestly into the realities of ageing and caregiving for elderly relatives that you love-the frustration, the helplessness, and the sadness. Lucy Knisley (you may know of her from her more famous work Relish, which I haven’t found in my local library thus far) mostly writes autobiographical accounts. The other part of me says what’s life without a serendipitous discovery or two? Borrow away. Otherwise, I may never have time to read all those books that I really, really want to read.Įxcept, I really, really want to read these other books that catch my eye as well.

If I mean to make any significant progress on this List in my lifetime, I need not to give in to temptations I see along the way. Books on this list get crossed out (read) at a much, much slower pace. It usually grows by a few books every other day, even though I am selective about what I add to it and often review it and cull out books that I don’t believe appeal to me any longer. Only because I have 1526 books on this list right this minute. One part of me tries to apply that same rule to my book checking out habits which often suffer from a lack of discipline: Check out only what’s on the TBR list. We all know that rule that personal finance advisors often spout with regards to sticking to one’s budget: Buy only what’s on the List. Age of License: A Travelogue (2014) by Lucy Knisley was an impulse check out at the library last night.

An Age of License by Lucy Knisley