Alana Valentine for the ‘What I’m Reading’ series.

I wonder if it is unusual for me to write about a book that I am reading, and re-reading, but I don’t exactly enjoy. The book is the graphic novel Are You My Mother? by American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, about her relationship with her mother, her therapists, her writing and her girlfriends. I am fascinated by it, even fearful of it, but I couldn’t describe the effect on me as comfortable.