Are you a fangirl who has lost the ability to can? A fanfic writer who spends most of her time squeeing over her OT3? A convention noob afraid of catching hate for her kick-ass Falcon cosplay? A person who didn’t understand 3/4 of what I was talking about in the last few sentences? In any of these circumstances, we’re all going to be glad that Sam Maggs has written The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy – a pretty comprehensive overview of living the geek girl […]
March (Book 1): An Origin Story
What’s hard for kids to recognize – hell, what’s hard for people to recognize – is that we’re living through history right this minute. That, someday, there’s going to be a kid, bored of his mind, doodling in the margins of his brain tablet (or whatever space technology kids are learning on in the future), barely listening to his teacher drone on and on about ‘the geopolitical ramifications of US drone strikes in 2014’ or – in deference to today’s book – ‘Let’s compare and […]
Cannonball Accomplished :)
It’s the summer of 1927, and Winter Magnusson is one of San Francisco’s top bootleggers. He runs both quality fish and top-shelf booze in from the California coast, and it’s worth the top dollar he can charge for it – no bathtub gin to be found here. He seems well-known and respected in the community, even if he’s got a suspicious accident in his past, and a scar on his face as a constant reminder. He’s also got a supernatural hit out on him, and […]
The simplest of illustrations, and a book’s worth of confusion is born.
In Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld’s Duck! Rabbit!, we start off with an unusual conundrum: Nobody is really sure what the main character actually is. We’re pretty sure it’s an animal. Of some sort. We’ve got it narrowed down to two, but that’s as close as we can guess. S/he could be a duck – see there? The bill, and the bread eating? or S/he could be a rabbit – only witness the carrot snack and the long, pointed ears. There’s really no telling, […]
Futher adventures in children’s poetry
I think the best part about books of poems written for children is that the poets allow themselves to be unabashedly inspirational or absurd. They let themselves go past the limits of ‘ordinary’, into territory that’s considered too sentimental or ridiculous for grown-ups: When it comes to writing for children – particularly writing poems for children – there are no such boundaries. The less ‘normal’ the better, the more sweet or shocking, the more relate-able, it seems. And someone who’s figured this out pretty well […]
Unable not to buy the rest of the series
They used to be close; friends and maybe, before he left, on the road to becoming something more. But after his father’s death, Paul Fraser was forced to leave his Highlands home and could only keep in contact with Juliette Andrews through letters and rare visits home. Their letters brought them even closer until, Paul thought he’d earned the right to ask the baron’s daughter to become his wife – although he was only a doctor, with no noble titles to his name, he was […]
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