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"Two girls in a small town in the USA kill time together as they try to get through their days at school.
They watch videos, share earbuds as they play each other songs and exchange their stories. In the process they form a deep connection and an unexpected relationship begins to develop.
In her follow up to the critically acclaimed The End of Summer, Tillie Walden tells the story of a small love that can make you feel like the biggest thing around, and how it’s possible to find another person who understands you when you thought no-one could."
They watch videos, share earbuds as they play each other songs and exchange their stories. In the process they form a deep connection and an unexpected relationship begins to develop.
In her follow up to the critically acclaimed The End of Summer, Tillie Walden tells the story of a small love that can make you feel like the biggest thing around, and how it’s possible to find another person who understands you when you thought no-one could."
68 pages, Paperback
First published November 13, 2015
About the author
Tillie Walden
34 books3,053 followersTillie Walden is a cartoonist and illustrator from Austin, Texas. Born in 1996, she is a recent graduate from the Center for Cartoon Studies, a comics school in Vermont. Over the course of her time at CCS she published three books with the London based Avery Hill Publishing. She has already received an Eisner Award nomination and two Ignatz Awards for her early works. When she is not drawing comics, Tillie can be found walking and listening to audiobooks or asleep with a cat. She also enjoys studying architecture and tries to incorporate that passion into her comics. Spinning is her first long form autobiographical work.
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March 12, 2022
rep: Black sapphic mc, Jewish sapphic mc
absolutely love this feeling of teen girls being bigger than the world
absolutely love this feeling of teen girls being bigger than the world
July 16, 2019
Short and honest and SAD. My heart hurts in the best way 😭
June 8, 2022
Tillie Walden is masterful, and her early works such as the brief graphic story I Love This Part showcase a budding talent and an adept storytelling through images that convey a deep emotional narrative. The story is quick, something read in just a few minutes, but it captures the turmoil of a failing relationship and identity struggles with sexuality in a way that will completely consume you and linger far beyond the time spent reading. It’s a simple story filled with longing and loss but also the bittersweet taste of hope and young love when it seems to hit so hard and pure.
The artwork is gorgeous, and I love the way Walden draws the characters as larger than the landscape. Like giants against mountain ranges, it captures a sense in early love that your relationship is larger than the world and all your attention is drawn towards it. The later frames, especially the ones without dialogue, makes silence speak loudly and emphasizes the vast distance between the two characters despite moments of being bridged through shared emotion.
The character designs will look familiar to fans, as the girlfriend seems a model for the similar role in her other books while the other girl seems modeled off Walden herself. The story briefly touches on a lot of struggles with self-worth and confidence.This is a lovely little story and I could stare at Walden’s artwork for hours. It is brief and of her earlier stages before adding bold colors and developing a looser style, but it is also marvelous.
4.5/5
May 15, 2020
This little sapphic story was sweet but I think I need to bite the bullet and admit that Tillie's books aren't for me. As much as I want to adore them and as much as I relate to them, they feel so emotionless to me. I think it aims for melancholy but lands somewhere between dreary and hard to understand, and it's a trend in all of her books.
April 2, 2017
A short elliptical sweet and sad story about a relationship between two teen girls, with lots of space and not much dialogue that juxtaposes tableaux-type depictions of fragments of their relationship with sweeping landscapes and detailed architectural studies of buildings. Subtle lavender washed pen and ink images, emotionally resonant.
Here's 4 or 5 panels from it, so lovely.
http://tilliewalden.com/work/i-love-t...
Here's 4 or 5 panels from it, so lovely.
http://tilliewalden.com/work/i-love-t...
November 3, 2020
Wow.
Amazing art.
Intense story line.
Coming of age.
Too short for me.
But nevertheless good.
Amazing art.
Intense story line.
Coming of age.
Too short for me.
But nevertheless good.
November 5, 2020
i love this art.
August 1, 2019
3.5 Stars
This was such a lovely graphic novel that is realistic and also sad in so many ways. I think that the main metaphor was perfectly captured in the drawings: sometimes love can make you feel like the biggest thing in the world and it was so nice to see this concept depicted on the page, it really made an impact. I'm giving it 3 stars just because it was a little too short for my taste.
This was such a lovely graphic novel that is realistic and also sad in so many ways. I think that the main metaphor was perfectly captured in the drawings: sometimes love can make you feel like the biggest thing in the world and it was so nice to see this concept depicted on the page, it really made an impact. I'm giving it 3 stars just because it was a little too short for my taste.
October 14, 2021
A heartbreaking romance is told in a series of its smallest -- and yet biggest -- moments.
One of the few nice things about moving is going into your new local library and finding books that have been on your TBR for like forever.
UPDATE 10/14/2021:
This story is now reprinted in Alone in Space: A Collection, a worthwhile collection of Tillie Walden's hard-to-find early works and other odds and ends.
One of the few nice things about moving is going into your new local library and finding books that have been on your TBR for like forever.
UPDATE 10/14/2021:
This story is now reprinted in Alone in Space: A Collection, a worthwhile collection of Tillie Walden's hard-to-find early works and other odds and ends.
April 16, 2017
La historia de estas dos chicas que haciendo cosas cotidianas juntas terminan enamorándose; los dibujos son preciosos, la verdad es que podía quedarme sumida en ellos durante mucho tiempo. La historia es preciosa, llega con el inicio en calma, un desarrollo que comienza a pitar como una locomotora, y luego el final: real y expectante; te deja con el corazón en la mano.
May 14, 2018
Tillie Walden nos cuenta en Esta Parte Me Encanta cómo el amor puede surgir con las situaciones más pequeñas, cómo puede hacernos sentir como lo más grande del universo... pero también cómo puede acabarse por miedo al qué dirán y a qué pensarán los demás. Con ilustraciones preciosas que transmiten un montón de sentimientos, nos encontramos con una historia que nos romperá el corazón.
July 25, 2021
The illustrations are so lovely and I love the idea behind it, but it was just far too short for me to really form a connection with the characters and their relationship.
September 20, 2016
This book was so beautiful, the story so earnest, I cried a little as I read it.
Note 1: I was in public, sitting at the Retrofit Comics table at SPX.
Note 2: I hate crying in public. But it was worth it.
Note 1: I was in public, sitting at the Retrofit Comics table at SPX.
Note 2: I hate crying in public. But it was worth it.
October 7, 2019
Tillie Walden's artwork is beautiful and she's such a great storyteller. I wish this had been longer.
September 20, 2018
3.5 stars
This is really cute but way too short to get attached to the characters and their story so only 3.5 stars from me.
This is really cute but way too short to get attached to the characters and their story so only 3.5 stars from me.
October 20, 2018
More like 3.9
This is a very short graphic novel story that goes through the highs and lows of a relationship between two young girls. It's both concise and subtle, so even though it's short, it makes an impact. I enjoyed it!
This is a very short graphic novel story that goes through the highs and lows of a relationship between two young girls. It's both concise and subtle, so even though it's short, it makes an impact. I enjoyed it!
August 14, 2023
can we ever tell anybody?
probably not
Short and sweet might be the best way I can think to describe this. It's possible to read it in just a few short minutes but it lingers after. The art is also beautiful, loved that the girls were bigger than the world, aren't they all?
probably not
Short and sweet might be the best way I can think to describe this. It's possible to read it in just a few short minutes but it lingers after. The art is also beautiful, loved that the girls were bigger than the world, aren't they all?
January 29, 2022
tw {internalized homophobia}
i've read this so many times but it's the first time i got to read the kindle edition. there's no difference but i was excited.
you know, i get this. being a kid or teen and being in this bubble where everything outside of you feels bigger than it is and your feelings are biggest most overwhelming thing in the world and sometimes it becomes to much or you've been taught something and it takes years to unlearn it. i just hope they turn out okay when they're older...
i've read this so many times but it's the first time i got to read the kindle edition. there's no difference but i was excited.
you know, i get this. being a kid or teen and being in this bubble where everything outside of you feels bigger than it is and your feelings are biggest most overwhelming thing in the world and sometimes it becomes to much or you've been taught something and it takes years to unlearn it. i just hope they turn out okay when they're older...
March 25, 2019
well now I’m sad
October 17, 2019
Tillie Walden's art is so freaking gorgeous 🥰
May 24, 2020
this took me maybe five minutes to read, but it still managed to provide sapphic black and jewish rep as well as tell a very honest, emotional story
March 2, 2021
curtinho mas lindo e cheio de emoçao. as ilustraçoes todas em tons de roxo, cinza e preto
August 11, 2020
This is an intense story about the relationship between two teen girls. But, I felt it was too short to do it justice.
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December 9, 2020A purposefully slight graphic novel that succeeds in what it sets out to do in exploring physical and emotional spaces: the spaces between people, the largeness of togetherness that fills up space, and the space the author leaves for readers to interpret. The author's skill in drawing structures (of note in her other works) suits the theme here in particular. This work would transition well to an experimental motion picture short.
And what is this title doing in the YA library section? This book should at least be made accessible to late middle-grade+.
And what is this title doing in the YA library section? This book should at least be made accessible to late middle-grade+.
February 7, 2021
This was... okay-ish? Like the drawings were cute and the story bittersweet and honest. Still, I think the story was maybe a little too short for me; I couldn't feel the nostalgia/love/heartbreak it was trying to portray. Maybe... I'm not smart enough for it and I couldn't get the full meaning of the drawings? Or Tillie Walden isn't for me. Anyhow! Glad there are more sweet sapphic romances out there.
September 23, 2018
Una mirada contemplativa y cotidiana por una historia de amor tan aguda como bella. Tillie Walden saca un provecho tremendo de la bicromía del apartado gráfico para enfatizar las etapas, las sensaciones y los sentimientos que van pasando en el avance de la relación entre dos chicas.
Una novela gráfica llena de nostalgia, música y desolación.
Reseña completa: https://goo.gl/PrrrNm
Una novela gráfica llena de nostalgia, música y desolación.
Reseña completa: https://goo.gl/PrrrNm
January 3, 2019
Deceptively simple: adolescent girls gone giant in giant, scenic landscapes because that's exactly what adolescent love feels like--huge and outsize and epic and impossible. Perfect use of color and scale and scope--I swooned mightily. A real gem, though I wish it were longer.
October 5, 2021
This was good but also I wish it was longer
December 8, 2023
Tillie Walden's art is so fucking beautiful (also the colors >>>).
The story was sweet and sad and realistic, I really liked it.
The story was sweet and sad and realistic, I really liked it.
March 21, 2018
Este libro es una bonita y triste historia de amor de dos amigas adolescentes. Un libro con situaciones que todos hemos vivido y que al final se trata de una historia universal de amor entre adolescentes. Recomendada leerla, las ilustraciones son tan bonitas y tan reveladoras.
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