I mean, they’re not even all that interesting, or like, unique.
I mean, you know, that we’re studying all these books…plays…whatever…that everyone studies every year. This novel explores suicide, depression, love, friendship, LGBTQ, popularity, crushes, cliques, stigmas, stereotypes, trying to fit in and how to be yourself. ME) are very fragile.” – Skim by Mariko TamakiĪnd the popular clique, led by Julie Peters, forms a new club (Girls Celebrate Life! or GCL) to bolster school spirit, while Skim sinks into a deepening depression.Īnd when Skim falls in love, it only makes things worse. Hornet says students who are members of the “gothic” culture (i.e. Hornet said she’s particularly concerned about people like me, because people like me are prone to depression and depressing stimuli. Immediately the school counselors are looking at Skim, thinking that she will follow John Reddear’s actions. When the popular girl in school Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend John Reddear, who later commits suicide, the entire school goes into mourning. Although she is called Skim, she is a “not slim,” known as a goth, who practices Wicca with her best friend Lisa Soor. Skim is set in an all-girls Catholic high school in Toronto in 1993, and follows a sixteen-year-old Japanese-Canadian student named Kimberly Keiko Cameron aka Skim. It has been awhile since I first read it, and my memory is terrible, so there were still many surprises.Īuthor: Mariko Tamaki (Drawings by Jillian Tamaki) So when I knew I had to read a graphic novel for POPSUGAR’s 2015 Reading Challenge, I immediately thought of this novel. I had to read it for a women studies course I took a few years, and I was blown away.
I’ve actually already read Skim by Mariko Tamaki once before.
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