Book Review
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Mini Comic Reviews!
**Now this title is misleading in the fact that it also includes graphic novels and manga too! But here we go!!** When we meet Eagle Valiant Brosi, he is a long-haired commune kid, bullied by other kids,teachers, and his neighbors. –StoryGraph This is dark and dark humor wrapped up in…
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The Women
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW Book club this year has some heavy hitting subject matter, lol. I probably would not have had this on my TBR without book club so I’m really glad that…
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Mini Comic Reviews!
The mysterious Red Hood returns to Gotham with a vengeance! Former Robin Jason Todd parted ways with the Batman over their vastly different approaches to crimefighting. –Storygraph MY REVIEW Red Hood is one of my top three favorite characters in comics, so it’s really no surprise that I’m just basically…
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Down a small alleyway in the heart of Tokyo, there’s an underground café that’s been serving carefully brewed coffee for over a hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers its customers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW We read this for…
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MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus
In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer prize-winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics, and the Holocaust ever since it was first published twenty-five years ago. (39 years ago) –StoryGraph MY REVIEW MetaMaus has been a rather impactful read to me. I was…
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Cat-Eyed Boy: The Perfect Edition Vol. 1
Hated by humans and demons alike, Cat-Eyed Boy dwells in the shadows of the human world. Wherever he goes, disturbing tales of both men and monsters begin to unfurl. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW Latest topic of comic book club, and this was a delightfully chaotic/wild ride from tart to finish. The…
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(S)Kin
Fifteen-year-old Marisol is the daughter of a soucouyant. Every new moon, she sheds her skin like the many women before her, shifting into a fireball witch who must fly into the night and slowly sip from the lives of others to sustain her own. But Brooklyn is no place for…
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Night Watch
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW TW: Rape, physical assault, child abandonment, death, which unsurprising given its Civil War/Reconstruction era timeline Another one for the fiction book club! This was one…
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Phantasma
Welcome to Phantasma.There are only two rules to the game. Stay alive. And don’t fall in love. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW Welcome to Caraval Phantasma. Where the rules are made up and the points don’t matter. This was such a blatant ripoff of Caraval for me. It literally took so much…
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His Majesty’s Airship
Airships, those airborne leviathans that occupied center stage in the world in the first half of the twentieth century, were a symbol of the future. –StoryGraph MY REVIEW Another book club read, this one for our nonfiction club at my local library (I’m in two book clubs there and one…
The Caffeinated Reader 