Skim

I thought that Skim was a very interesting book to read. This was my firt experience reading a graphic novel and it was hard to follow at first but it really let you see the story in the way that the author envisioned it. The only downside that I see with graphic novels is that it does not allow you to imagine the story in your head as much as in a regular novel. I found that instead of picturing the story as a movie in my head, as I do with most books, I focused on the pictures to create the story.


I think that Skim is a modern "coming of age novel" because it is a story of a girl trying to find herself as she goes through the struggle of adolescences. Skim is different from coming of age stories like Romeo and Juliet because there is no dramatic romance between a man and a woman and her problems are not as severe as trying to make up your mind to kill yourself to be with the person you love. Instead of that type of story Skim struggles with everyday problems of a person in her age group who is trying to fit it and find who they are. The romance in Skim occurs between her and her female teacher which gives and interesting twist to it. By the end of the book Skim grows out of her stage as a wicca, an awkward friendship with her "best friend", and she finds a new friend that she can be herself around. Skim may not be a book made for children but I think it does show that even though the struggles of trying to find who you are is hard, it will work out in the end if you a true to yourself.