Despite my admittedly less than sophisticated taste in literature, I never expected to write about a children’s book for Cannonball Read. However, I was recently introduced to The Man in the Ceiling while I was helping my mom clean out my brother’s room and discovered it among his various childhood artifacts. As I know Jules Feiffer from his brilliant political and satirical cartoons in the Village Voice and from illustrating one of my own childhood favorites The Phantom Tollbooth, I was intrigued. With my brother’s […]
Making Sure my Potter Journey is Complete
I’m about 2/3 of the way done with the audiobook of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix but I’m trying to make my Potter immersion 100% before the end of CBR9 so I’ve also added the novellas JK Rowling wrote like this and the Tales of Beedle the Bard (which I’ll hit closer to Deathly Hallows) to my TBR. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, cowritten by Ms. Rowling and Newt Scamander, is a brief encyclopedia of the magical creatures that inhabit the Wizarding world but hide from […]
The Final Putsch:
So this one begins the final push in the series. Actually, the previous two books did that, where we are no longer looking for guardians so much as following the orphans on the trail of their pursuits. One thing I really like about this book is that the orphans are pursuing Olaf and not the other way around. It flips the power a little. They are not as powerful and cannot do to him what he would do to them, but it’s a start. This […]
In which I rant about the TV show:
So this book began to give me the inkling of what was bothering me about the tv show. I have not read these books before and I thought, well, I will read ahead of the show and all will be well. But they screwed me over. I didn’t know that not only would they ruin the big surprises of the books, most of which I haven’t even gotten to yet, but they would do so for no particularly good reason. These books are mysteries. Plain […]
Taking a Trip Down Memory Lane
The Stopping Place by Marden Dahlstedt
How many books have you hung on to since childhood? As the daughter of a librarian, my answer is, “not many.” I did hang on to my Scholastic Book Club copy of Marden Dahlstedt’s The Stopping Place, from fifth grade though. I recently came across my slim paperback story of a girl from Brooklyn forced to move to New Jersey’s Pine Barrens when her hippie family relocates. (The horror!) I saved a few books from my childhood, but most of my favorites came from the library. I still […]
The Past Continues to be a Foe in the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling, Jim Dale narrator
*Note: This review was completed in 2017 before the author’s views towards our trans siblings began to be widely known. My reading experience was what it was and these reviews will remain up, but it should be noted that I find her TERF values abhorrent, which have only become more clear over time, and her doubling down in Summer 2020 has made the decision to walk away from her as a creative force the only acceptable choice for me. I will no longer be supporting […]
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