This is another comic I found because I was looking for comics to give to students who really liked Nimona when they read it last year. So what I did was look up two lists on Goodreads: Best Graphic Novels of 2016 and then Comics with Diverse Characters, or some version of the above. And yes, there will be a Ms. Marvel post coming in the next few days. I am on spring break. Do it up! Anyway, I don’t know anything about this hero, this […]
Flerken Cat
I am reviewing a bunch of comics in the next few reviews because of biting off more than I now realize I can chew. See what happened was: Last year I got a copy of Nimona for Christmas, read it, liked it a lot, and then put it in my classroom library. A bunch of students borrowed it and read it and loved it. And even though I know next to nothing about comics and graphic novels, I get lots of questions about recommendations. So I […]
I Know What You did Last Solstice
This is an odd novel because it’s so squarely tied to the time of its writing, but it’s been kind of falsely updated in unconvincing ways. So for example, at one point a younger brother was probably reading a comic book, but this has been updated to have him play his 3DS. This is kind of silly in a way I will mention at the very end. So Kirby, Brendan, and Nancy have each been given magical, but ever so slight, gifts. Kirby can dance, […]
I googled a term from a review of this one….
I will be doing kind of a major spoiler lower down in the page, and I will mark the break when I move to that. So the term that I googled is “anvilicious” because a review from Goodreads on this book mentioned this as a problem for the book. This basically mean the “message” of the book is hammered home too too neatly, directly, or succinctly. This is a kind of minor problem for this book. The book is sentimental and heartfelt, a little clunkily, […]
Not the sequel to The Chocolate War
This novel takes place in what is now Tanzania, and I know this because at several points I was Wikipediaing a lot of the details. For example, William Boyd was born in Gold Coast. And I had no idea that was what is now Ghana. So anyway, Tanzania was for a bit of time the bordering colonies of German East Africa and British East Africa, but those were more historically Zanzibar and Tanganyika. So here we are. So this novel is about a group of […]
Student Reads: March
I guess I am not 100% sure what to make of this one. It’s very good, without a doubt, truly it’s very good. And while one of my students did read it and enjoy it, I was the one who mentioned it to her. And he response was basically, well I liked it, but it wasn’t fun. And I think that about sums it up. It’s very very good and interesting to be sure. I learned some things too, or rather was reminded of things […]
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