Biography
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WHO YOU CALLIN’ SILLY? – Kimberly R. Lock
First off – I am NOT the intended audience for this book. This book, written by the devout wife of a pastor, is directed toward other women of faith and is a guide for how to be a virtuous woman. The author was aware that I was not the intended audience when she sent the Continue reading
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WINTER PASSAGES – Robert Brustein
If there is anyone writing today more eloquently and regularly on theatre and theatre artists than Robert Brustein, I would very much like to know who that is. For those of us who work in the theatre, we can often be consumed by the day-to-day rigors of the work, but works, such as Brustein’s essays, Continue reading
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DUST BOWL GIRLS – Lydia Reeder
Dust Bowl Girls, by Lydia Reeder, is one of the most exciting, informative, and thoroughly engaging non-fiction books I’ve read this year. This is a book that must be optioned for film — it has all the ingredients for a truly spellbinding movie. Think Hoosiers, A League of Their Own, or The Blind Side. Author Continue reading
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BEHIND THE MIC – Robert Dustman
Why do we read memoirs? We read biographies and autobiographies to learn more about a person. But why do we read memoirs? The answer, I suspect, is different for everyone, but mostly I think it’s for insight. Either into a person; human nature; or a profession. Behind the Mic, by Robert Dustman, is an autobiography Continue reading
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DARK NIGHT: A TRUE BATMAN STORY – Paul Dini
Sometimes, after a catastrophic event, especially a very personal one, the victim needs to find a release – a cathartic means of expression. Paul Dini is looking for his relief through a medium that he is very familiar with. The graphic novel. Paul Dini’s name is likely familiar to comic book and animation nerds as Continue reading
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HARD-BOILED ANXIETY – Karen Huston Karydes
What did it take to become a genre-setting author of noir detective fiction? Judging by Karen Huston Karydes’ book, Hard-Boiled Anxiety, the answer comes down to ‘personal demons.’ Karydes clearly has a love of the noir-detective genre and has done a great deal of research into the personal lives of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Continue reading
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NO ONE’S PET – Sheila Kennedy
First, let’s point out that this isn’t a biography (or autobiography) so much as it is a memoir. What’s the difference? A memoir (typically) doesn’t follow the timeline of one’s life but selects moments that were meaningful and expounds on them, often jumping around. No One’s Pet by Sheila Kennedy definitely fits the memoir mold. Continue reading
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SECRET TEACHINGS OF A COMIC BOOK MASTER: THE ART OF ALFREDO ALCALA – Heidi MacDonald and Phillip Dana Yeh
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A REISSUE I remember in the 1970’s being eager each month for the latest issue of The Savage Sword of Conan to be on bookseller’s shelf. The black and white art in this over-sized comic book typically was much more impressive than that in the smaller color comics, and a big part Continue reading
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RINGO – Michael Seth Starr
I’m glad to see that books about the Beatles, as a group, or as solo artists, are still popular enough to be published. Ringo, as the tile suggests, is a biography of one of the world’s most famous drummers. As an amateur percussionist myself, I’ve long had a special interest in this gentleman, though know/knew Continue reading
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SLAVE NARRATIVES OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD – Christine Rudisel and Bob Blaisdell, eds.
I have to admit that I don’t know nearly as much as I should about the struggle of slaves in America and their flight to freedom and emancipation, despite the fact that there’s a slavery underground house just a few blocks from my home. Certainly I’ve read about it in history classes, but it was Continue reading
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LINCOLN’S SPYMASTER: ALLAN PINKERTON – Samantha Seiple
This teen and tween biography of Allan Pinkerton, by Samantha Seiple, is just the ticket to get students interested in reading non-fiction. Lincoln’s Spymaster is an easy, engaging read. Seiple’s writing moves along crisply, telling us what we need to know and making the work of the spy, Allan Pinkerton, sound exciting and dangerous (which Continue reading
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THE ART OF THE BRICK – Nathan Sawaya
Beautiful. Nathan Sawaya’s, The Art of the Brick, is a truly beautiful book. Sawaya is an artist whose choice of media is the Lego®. You know…those little, bright-colored plastic bricks that kids (and kids-at-heart) play with? Yes…that is the medium for an incredible art form. Sawaya’s art is anything but childish. His ability to create Continue reading
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