Prior to the recent Netflix series starring the delightful Charlie Cox, my only exposure to the character of Daredevil was the truly awful Ben Affleck movie. That movie probably set back the superhero/comic book movie genre by a few years, yeeee. Anyways, the series is just excellent, and so I decided to pick up this Frank Miller trade paperback from the 90s, which expands upon Daredevil’s origin story. I have to admit, I was a bit cynical about it, because Frank Miller gets a lot […]
Starting in the middle makes it hard
I didn’t realize I read the second in this series until I started writing this review. I might be.. dim. I picked this up at the library to share with my son, because I have been consciously trying to give him more female superhero characters to read about, and those are a little thin on the ground. I last really knew about Wonder Woman from the 1980s cartoon, but did know that the invisible jet is a thing of the past. It was interesting to […]
This book is great, and you can too!
This is my quarter Cannonball – I have reached my goal by mid-year. Dare I now try and complete a half Cannonball, after the failure of 2014? My quarter is going to end on a high note – the remarkable Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. This has of course been reviewed to death already this year, so what more can I add? For those few people who are not aware, this book centres on the survivors of a world wide flu epidemic, which […]
Not a cologne, not a songwriter
When trying to find this book on amazon.com to provide the review link, it was remarkably hard. Amazon.com wants me to buy cologne, to buy sheet music, ANYTHING. The first book example I could find was in French. This book won the 2010 Governor’s General Award, surely it couldn’t be that obscure? Poor Can Lit, still neglected by the rest of the world. Cool Water is set in a fictional Saskatchewan farming community, and takes place over the course of about a day. In the […]
Preteen angst, extra special snowflake edition.
I have been reading an awful lot of YA fiction lately – partly out of interest, and partly out of reading to my son. I figure I better read to him while he is willing to listen, and Santa brought him the Percy Jackson box set for Christmas. I have recently lost him at story time to his father and Harry Potter, and I confess I am tempted to read ahead and see where the book series goes. I can only be patient for so […]
Crash!
I finished this book some time ago, but I was so tired of being mad about it that I have put off this review. This a garbage book, ending the series on a low note. Throughout the previous two books, the story was told through the perspective of Tris, the most special snowflake that ever snowflaked in a snowstorm. In this novel, having run the well dry of shallow drama, Roth alternates between Tris’s viewpoint and that of her boyfriend, Four. His personality is not […]
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