May 2014
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A DARK INHERITANCE – Chris d’Lacey
Science fiction, mystery, paranormal activity, alternate realities, action/adventure. A Dark Inheritance by Chris d’Lacey has a little bit of everything! Author d’Lacey drops the reader right in to the story without a lot of set-up, which I’ve always found to be a thrilling way to start a book. We, the reader, get to learn and Continue reading
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THE WORD EXCHANGE – Alena Graedon
I was actually giddy with excitement as I approached the one-quarter mark in this book. Never, I felt, had I been so excited about something so original. A concept that was brilliant and unique. And the fact that it was all about language made it even more appealing to me. By the time I was Continue reading
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OPERATION SHAKESPEARE: THE TRUE STORY OF AN ELITE INTERNATIONAL STING – John Shiffman
Author John Shiffman has written an exciting espionage thriller … no, wait a minute … this isn’t a work of fiction! This is a well-researched, thoroughly documented expose of a true international sting that reads like an espionage thriller! First off, the title…. I’ll admit that I was, in part, interested in this based on Continue reading
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GREEN LANTERN, VOLUME 4: DARK DAYS – graphic novel
After reading the “Blackest Night” series, I wondered how anyone could possibly maintain a strong sense of drama with obstacles and goals in te Green Lantern series. I felt that anything would pale compared with the high drama of the “Blackest Night” series. Author Robert Venditti manages a valiant effort! In Green Lantern, Vol. 4: Continue reading
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DISASTER STRIKES #1 & #2 – Marlane Kennedy
One of the things that has always drawn me to books for younger readers is the opportunity (or challenge) to teach, or share information, in an entertaining and exciting story. This new Disaster Strikes series is a little more overt in its educational aspect (emergency preparedness), but it is still a fiction story at its Continue reading
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THE O’NEILL: THE TRANSFORMATION OF MODERN AMERICAN THEATER – Jeffrey Sweet
Having spent a good portion of my life working professionally in theatre, I was certainly familiar with the O’Neill Center, if only by name. But having spent most of that career in the Midwest and West Coast, I’d never gotten closer than reading about the place in magazines and web sites. Jeffrey Sweet manages to Continue reading
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MARK WAID’S THE GREEN HORNET, VOLUME 1 – graphic novel
The Green Hornet has been mostly absent in my life since I was maybe eight years old and making Green Hornet rings and plastic hornets with my classic (then new) Mattel™ Goop Thingmaker® (as seen here), which was one of my most favorite toys back in the 1960’s! Yet for some reason, The Green Hornet Continue reading
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THE 53RD PARALLEL – Carl Nordgren
What do the Ojibway of Ontario, Canada and Irish IRA militants have in common? For one thing, they both reside along the 53rd parallel latitude. But Author Carl Nordgren brings them together in other ways in his River of Lakes series, book one: The 53rd Parallel. In this book, Brian Burke has to leave his Continue reading
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COMICS AND LANGUAGE: REIMAGINING CRITICAL DISCOURSE ON THE FORM – Hannah Miodrag
I enjoy scholarly studies on topics that I am interested in. But I believe it is a fallacy to think that just because something is ‘scholarly’ it has to be written in a dry, emotionless, passionless manner. Hannah Miodrag could learn from her subjects. Language in comics is brief and to the point. To clutter Continue reading
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SOME FINE DAY – Kat Ross
**WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD** Not too long ago I posted a video preview for this book. The preview really captured my attention and I was eager to get in to this book. Dystopian futures are all the rage in sci-fi/fantasy right now, it seems, and Kat Ross’s book plays with the same theme. In Continue reading
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STAR TREK: KHAN – graphic novel
**WARNING: SPOILER ALERT — SPOILERS WITHIN THIS REVIEW** You’ve seen the Star Trek: Into Darkness movie (if you haven’t, I can’t imagine any reason you would want to buy a Star Trek graphic novel) and whether you’re a Trek fan or not, by now you must know that the ‘villain’ in the movie is the Continue reading
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EKHO: EVIL KID HUNTING ORGANIZATION – Marie D. Jones & Max Jones
Bullying in schools is a hot-button topic these days so it is not surprising that we will see a number of books targeting the bullying topic. EKHO: Evil Kid Hunting Organization, is one of the latest, using a spy genre style to entice the younger readers. The story is relatively simple…a group of fourth graders, Continue reading
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