Reviews

The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon

oxnard_montalvo's review against another edition

4.0

Great art and characters that you feel emotionally invested in. Felt it didn't quite fufill it's potential. Like it was still building up momentum when it ended. Would have liked more clarification with Nao's homework- why was she leaving post-its on the toaster? That's the kind of thing that maybe doesn't need to be explored, but I find it maddening. The ending was somewhat mysterious and unexplained as well. Less on that as I don't want to spoil it for anyone.
But all in all, very good.

jr2234's review against another edition

2.0

Ugh. No. Ew. This was nowhere near as good as I'd hoped it would be.

The illustrations in this were lovely but the story was a hot mess. The main character has OCD and is miraculously cured when she gets hit by a car. The plot is disjointed and I wondered multiple times if pages had been ripped from my library copy (spoiler: they weren't).

Would not recommend.

trevoryan's review against another edition

3.0

Actually, I wasn't getting into the story of this book but I loved the art. So, I just skimmed through it, looking at the drawings. In fact, I copied a bunch of panels and put them on my wall.

speakyourfears's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

2.5

nadine4497's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

2.75

fruschee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

2.0

pekey_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

3.75

I liked this a lot, but I was disappointed to see that it was not autobiographical and I started to question how representative it really was of these conditions. I really liked all the art though and it was an interesting work.

gloque's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

meghan111's review against another edition

4.0

I picked this from the library shelves the other day because it looked like it was about a character named Nao, and I loved the character named Nao in Ruth Ozeki's [b:A Tale for the Time Being.] This illustrates the point that people pick up books for all sorts of weird and happenstance reasons.

This has the most beautiful artwork and character renderings. A story about OCD, obsessive thoughts, washing machines and Buddhism, taking place in an upscale Japanese novelty vinyl toy shop and an urban Buddhist center.

jeffrey_e's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

3.0

The art was great, I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about the story but it was good.