The Philosopher’s Flight has the tagline, “Half science, half magic – entirely fantastic” on the cover, which coupled by the title and women flying had me intrigued right away. Tom Miller dedicated the book to Abby, “Who once asked why there were so few women in my stories”. My reaction to those words was excitement at the idea of a woman protagonist that flies with the aid of philosophy (whatever that meant). That illusion was quickly dashed when it was revealed that the main character was […]
Not as enraptured the second time around
I want to say I was introduced to Altered Carbon around 2007. I do remember that by the time it came into my hands the entire trilogy was out so I was able to blitz through all three. At the time I loved it and couldn’t put the books down. When I heard that Netflix was doing an adaptation, I was pretty excited from the remembered enjoyment of reading it. Then a blog talked about the problems of any adaptation to the book. Namely that a guy […]
The awkwardness of middle school and dental drama
My previous review was for Sisters a biographical graphic novel about the relationship between the author, Raina Telgemeier, and her younger sister Amara. Before she wrote Sisters, Raina chronicled the difficult and awkward time of middle school through the transition to high school in Smile. Poor Raina, at a time when you can feel your most self conscious she had an extra complication of braces and dental work on a level I had never heard of before. At eleven years old an unfortunate accident knocked out one of Raina’s top […]
A peak into a possible life
Raina Telgemeier took her childhood struggles with her sister and adapted them into this funny, and at times touching, graphic novel about the joys and angst of sisterhood. I have two sisters, however with a twelve year age difference between my first sister and myself, and a fourteen year age difference (plus the complexities of autism) between me and my second sister, with the added complication that I moved away from home when they were seven and five respectively, I’ve never had what I consider […]
That’s nothing like the book! And deeper lessons learned on re-reading decades later
When I found out Disney was adapting A Wrinkle in Time, I knew that I would read it to my daughter before the movie came out. We recently watched the trailer but hadn’t finished the book yet. Once the trailer finished, my daughter turned to me and said, “That’s nothing like the book!” I started laughing and responded, “Get used to that feeling, kiddo”. Later we talked about the challenge of adapting a written work to a visual medium and we both speculated on how Aunt Beast will […]
Wish this hadn’t sat in my TBR so long
Me to my husband, “I think you’ll really like this book I’ve just started reading, The Queen of Blood. There are these elemental spirits and they are locked in conflict with the humans. In this kingdom, the people live in the trees. A small village might be just one giant tree – “. He interrupts me, “Do they get around on zip lines?” “Yeah”, I respond. “I read that last year, good book”. He was right, it is a good book. Renthia is made of […]
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