Warlight – 3/5 Stars Warlight is the latest novel by Michael Ondaatje, most famous of course for The English Patient which won the Booker Price 25 years ago and recently won a kind of reissue Booker Prize and of course the film version of the movie won Best Picture at the Oscars and I really like the movie and plenty of people do not. So this book has also been nominated for the Longlist of the Booker Prize. Like a lot of late novels by […]
Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel adventure awaits!
I probably should not confess that I have never read Anne of Green Gables or any in the series. I have read other books of L.M. Montgomery and even seen some cinema adaptations. But never read the original. Therefore, when the graphic novel came up for ownership, I grabbed it. Adapted by Mariah Marsden and illustrated by Brenna Thummler Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel is a delightful way to be introduced to Anne (with an E) Shirley. If you have a reader who […]
Jarrett’s Family
Hey Kiddo, I have a graphic novel for you. It is a powerful memoir by author and illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka. While the action is not in a traditional story format, you are given the right amounts of information, action, illustration and imagination to help you see how one person became the world-known creator of the Lunch Lady series (among many other fun titles). The format of the graphic novel is a unique (but perfect) way of showing how Krosoczka grew up with a heroin addicted […]
Did someone order another budding chef story?
Here’s the basic premise of Brave Chef Brianna: a famous chef has become seriously ill, and he summons his 16 children, and tells them that whoever can start and run the most successful restaurant within a year will inherit his cooking empire (restaurants, tv, etc). His youngest child and only daughter is Brianna. She worries that she has less of a chance because her older brothers have all been working in the industry for years, while she’s fresh out of culinary school. The only place […]
The Best Podcast Ever Gets a Book
So, first things first. If you don’t know the wonder that is the McElroys, go fix that now. Get a podcast app, listen to ALL of My Brother, My Brother, and Me (that’s right, all of it), and then listen to all of The Adventure Zone. The McElroys are the funniest dudes around, and The Adventure Zone is a podcast in which Justin, Travis, and Griffin (the three McElroy brothers) play Dungeons & Dragons with their dad, Clint. This book is adapted from their first […]
Just Lovely
In times of darkness, books provide me comfort. I picked this up after it was recommended in NPR’s book concierge as a best book of 2017 and finally got around to reading it. I took a lot of history courses in college that studied Asian and Middle Eastern cultures because so much of what we are taught is centered on US and European History. I have always been interested in Japanese history and culture. My Brother’s Husband tells the story of Yaichi, a stay-at-home dad […]
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