I consider Alison Bechdel to be a go-to artist and author in the graphic novel medium. Fun Home holds a special place on my bookshelf, and The Secret to Superhuman Strength is another wonderful example from this creator. Bechdel uses the visual page in interesting ways and I continue to enjoy this creator's style. The way Bechdel captures life in panels is, in itself, amazing. Highly recommended reading.

Alison Bechdel describes her lifetime obsession with various sports and the need to express herself through movement in this new memoir. She has focused on various aspects of her history in past books, and the focus of this one is her history of involvement in athletics. I have enjoyed her former memoirs and this is a new angle.

I received an advanced reader’s copy in exchange for an honest review

Not what I was expecting from this author, a bold step. It works better than you think it would. If you love her, you will either love this new direction or resent a deviation from form. I’m just intrigued and would like to see more

How does she just keep getting better and better?? I've loved all her books and this is the best of them. I will certainly be covering this in some way for Book Riot.

Like those who say they knew bands before they were famous, that is the way I feel about Alison Bechdel. I knew her before Fun House, back when she first started Dykes to Watch Out For. It turns out she is just one year or so younger than I am, which might feel as though I have grown up with her and her stories.

The introduction to this book is a little long winded, about exercise fads, and I was feeling as though I was going to dread reading this, but when she went back to her childhood, and talked about exercising then, I found I was really getting into her story.

Like most of her books she has written, including Fun House, she brings up her own life experience to explain the things that are going on around her. Some of her stories are familiar, because of earlier books, but others have more information.

But it isn't just about exercise. It is also about being and non-being, about the consciousness of what we are, housed as we are within our bodies. She talks about poets and philosophers of days past, to show how their thoughts and feeling compare with todays.

A good deep read. I loved how when she showed painting of nature, she did an ink wash, and when she was talking about day to day life, it is done in the more cartoon like ink and color.

It is not Fun House. It is not Dykes to Watch Out For, but it is pure Alison Bechdel, and it is well worth reading.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.