Zusammenfassung Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late â™60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karenâ™s investigation takes us back to Ankaâ™s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.