Adam Bessie

A community college professor recounts his experience with remote schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. On top of that, he has an ongoing struggle with cancer.

So, yeah, a real downer. Proceed with caution.

The art didn't do much for me, and I found the writing pretty dull as Bessie waxes philosophical and a bit poetic -- practically writing an ode to community colleges at times -- and touches without much impact upon related subjects like classism and racism. His perspective just did little for me. The only moments I slightly engaged with the book were when he tied remote learning and the pandemic into the classic science fiction novels he was teaching at the time.… (meer)