July 2014
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STAR WARS: JEDI ACADEMY, RETURN OF THE PADAWAN – Jeffrey Brown
How do you hook early readers who are raised in a culture of social media and at-your-finger-tips-videos? You hook them with books such as this, Jedi Academy: Return of the Padawan. Roan is in his second year of Jedi training and young Roan deals with everything that the average middle schooler has to deal with Continue reading
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METEOR MEN – graphic novel
It is books like Meteor Men that have restored my faith in the graphic novel as a literary form. This book is beautiful to look at and delightful to read. To me, this is precisely what the graphic novel medium is intended to be. I know that the bulk of the graphic novels out there Continue reading
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BLOODLIGHT: THE APOCALYPSE OF ROBERT GOLDNER – Harambee K. Grey-Sun
Writing jacket copy and ad copy about a book can be an art form that rivals the writing of a book itself. In this case, the paragraphs about the book are much more interesting than the book itself. Bloodlight is actually two books. The first book, which takes 80% of the book, is about high Continue reading
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THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR: VOLUME EIGHT – Jonathan Strahan, editor
I really enjoy reading short stories. It used to be that I subscribed to just about every science fiction and fantasy magazine on the market, just because of the volume of short stories i could then read. But of course as time went on, my reading time dwindled and about the same time, more and Continue reading
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THE THRILLING ADVENTURE HOUR – graphic novel
The Thrilling Adventure Hour is a throw-back, spoof, homage to the 1950’s when creativity reigned supreme and anything was possible as long as you could imagine it. A robot cowboy-western on Mars? It’s here. A Ghostbusters/Shakespeare mashup? It’s here. A detective (by the name of Phillip Fathom) who operates under water? Yeah, it’s here, too. Continue reading
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THE MARTIAN – Andy Weir
It is going to be hard for me to pick a ‘best book of the year’ with all the quality books I’ve managed to read of late. This will definitely be in the running! Astronaut/botanist/engineer Mark Watley is stranded on Mars when a mission is aborted and Watley is (believably) presumed dead. Thus begins a Continue reading
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LIGHT FOR THE ARTIST – Ted Seth Jacobs
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A REISSUE I really really appreciate the publisher Dover for reviving/re-issuing some great art and art technique books. This particular book, Light for the Artist, from 1988, offers up some extremely valuable information. Light, its source and its effect on an object, might be one of the most important aspects of painting. Everything Continue reading
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THE SHADOW HERO – graphic novel
This is easily one of the most interesting superhero graphic novels I have ever read. First, a little history… the 1940’s were considered a Golden Age for comic books. A new format, cheap, pulp paper, and a wide-ranging readership gave birth to a variety of stories and titles and characters. Some would live on and Continue reading
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MAP WORLDS: A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN CARTOGRAPHY – Will C. Van Den Hoonaard
This is a very specialized book. While the book will be of some interest to those who might have an interest in cartography or early and contemporary map making, but this is much more about the role of women in cartography … their journey to being recognized as cartographers, their training and their struggles to Continue reading
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MORNINGSIDE FALL – Jay Posey
**WARNING — POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD (FOR BOTH THIS AND THE PREVIOUS BOOK IN THE SERIES THREE** I raved, not too long ago, about Three, the first book of the Legends of the Dustwalker series by Jay Posey and I was both excited and fearfully nervous about starting this second book. After all, Three was so good, Continue reading
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SHADOW WOMAN: THE EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF PAULINE DENTON – Grant Hayter-Menzies
BIOGRAPHY WEEK REVIEWS I knew nothing about Pauline Benton before reading this, but I’ve always had a fascination for puppetry of all sorts, so I thought that a biography of a puppeteer or puppet-master might be interesting. It is! Author Grant Hayter-Menzies clearly has a deep appreciation for Benton’s work and has done extensive research Continue reading
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COWBOY STUNTMAN: FROM OLYMPIC GOLD TO THE SILVER SCREEN – Dean Smith with Mike Cox
BIOGRAPHY WEEK REVIEWS First, let’s be clear that this is a memoir, and not a biography (or autobiography). What is the difference? A memoir is a collection of selected memories. They don’t always have to be told sequentially, from youngest to oldest (though in this case they are). A biography, on the other hand, is Continue reading
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