Blankets

Blankets by Craig Thompson is about his life growing up, from about the age of a middle schooler into early adulthood.


When I first saw the cover of this book I thought it was going to be written by a woman and be her love story. But I guess thats what I get for judging a book by its cover huh? When I found out thats not what it was, I was skeptical on what it would be like, espically because its so lengthy! But I loved it! Its a fantastic read and I've recommended it to a few of my non-GN reading friends.


I was curious how the title of the GN came about, it didn't take long to figure it out... First we see Craig and his little brother in the bed that they had to share. His little pest of a brother won't let him sleep so he steals all the covers and pretends to be sleeping. His brother rips the covers from him, while Craig falls the the floor in a heap.
Their father storms upstairs and forces the lil bro to sleep in "the cubby". This part was significant because this is where Craig admits that he should have stuck up for his brother a lot more than he did, after all he was the oldest, he should've been stuck in the creapy cubby.

The second blanket, making the title Blankets was from his "girlfriend" Riana, she quilted it for him by hand. It ment a lot to him.


So did she. But when she needed a break he didn't want any memories of her. So he burned everything that he had from her, except the blanket. He put the blanket in a bag and stored it in the cubby.
At the end of the gn he was searching in the cubby, not sure what he was looking for, but knew he would know, as soon as he found it. What he found was, the blanket she had quilted for him. On a could winters day he lay down on his old bed at his parents house, wrapped in the quilt she had made for him.