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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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THREE – Jay Posey
Oh…this is SOOO terrible of me…. I have a backlog of 200+ ARC books to read. This book, Three, by Jay Posey was the oldest book in my queue. Because it’s the first in a series and the second book has just been released, I thought I’d better get to this. I clearly recall two… Continue reading
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SKRAELINGS: CLASHES IN THE OLD ARCTIC – Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley & Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley
Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley have found a clever, fun way to tell a story that engages, informs, and entertains. Using a modern-day narrator to tell the story of an ancient land and time, the Qitsualik-Tinsley writing duo have managed to create a remarkably accurate representation of the old oral story-telling tradition, but recreated it… Continue reading
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DR. 2 – ISSUE 1 – comic book
Typically I review graphic novels and not individual comic books, but this was offered up by the publisher on NetGalley and it looked interesting, so I requested it — and I’m glad I dad! There is nothing ‘typical’ about this book. Let’s start with the story: This is our not-too-distant future. The doctor is called… Continue reading
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WOLFHOUND CENTURY – Peter Higgins
** WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD ** It’s difficult to know quite what to make of this book, Wolfhound Century; there’s a lot going on, in a number of different genres. This reads as a Russian, Cold War espionage, political thriller, set in an alternate world (or alternate history), with armored extra-terrestrials considered angels. Yeah … it’s… Continue reading
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HAUNTED ONTARIO 3: GHOSTLY HISTORIC SITES, INNS, AND MIRACLES – Terry Boyle
I’m not in to seeing or experiences ghosts myself, but I sure do enjoy reading ghost stories and watching programs such as Ghost Hunters, so I thought I might really enjoy this guidebook to haunted sites in our neighboring Ontario. Unfortunately, the book fell short of my expectations. Part guidebook, part history lesson, part memoir,… Continue reading
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DEEP BLUE – Jennifer Donnelly
It’s a little surprising, when I think back on it, but with as much fantasy as I have read over the years, I can’t recall a single book that has dealt with mermaids. With our planet being nearly three-quarters water surface, and our oceans being largely unexplored, it would seem to me that fantasy stories… Continue reading
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GANGSTERLAND – Ansha Kotyk
I wish I’d had a book like this when I was middle grade reader! I scoured the shelves for escapist fiction for boys, and this is escapist literally, as well as literarily. Jonathan is a bully-magnet. He has recently moved in with his divorced dad, from whom he’s been estranged. His father is busy and… Continue reading
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IS A WORRY WORRYING YOU? – Ferida Wolff & Harriet May Savitz & Marie LeTourneau
Children’s books are often didactic; teaching lessons in (hopefully) creative and entertaining ways. I can recall, just off the top of my head, books about using the potty, or Everyone Poops, and even recently I reviewed The Kissing Hand, in which a youngster learns it is okay to leave the nest. This teaching-lesson children’s book, Is… Continue reading
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