The Girl and the Glim by India Swift
The new girl in school has a problem: only she can see the “light creature alien” in this graphic novel called, The Girl and the Glim (or the light creature who is an alien). And this is on top of the fact as if she wasn’t weird enough to start with! She is small for her age and the bullies find all the puns available for that. Not to mention her parents are “shrinks.” But sometimes a girl and her Glim have gotta do what […]
Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith
The graphic novel Bea Wolf was both a book I loved and was thinking after only a few pages, “Just what exactly am I reading?” There are layers upon layers upon layers to the story arcs, and yet this is a simple story. If I have to say the first work that comes to mind when describing it, I would say Artistic. The second, Confusing. The third, Simple-Beauty (okay I know that’s technically two, but that’s what fits!). Zach Weinersmith was influenced by the story of Beowulf, and therefore […]
Dotson: My Journey Growing Up Trangender by Grayson Lee White
Grayson Lee White is a young teen by the end of his memoir, Dotson: My Journey Growing Up Transgender. They started their story at the end (around age 12) but flashback to show us the journey they took. This is an interesting memoir of Grayson’s transition that is told in their own voice. His journey is relatable and understandable, because what he was going through is something we all can feel: such as he felt he didn’t fit in, things were wrong with his body, and most […]
Fungi Grow by Maria Gianferrari
I am not even a fan of fungi (though occasionally I do like a little on a pizza with “a lot” on it) and think this is one of the best books I have read on the subject of fungi. At first, I was thinking, “wait, fungi? How dull.” And yet I just said I have read other books on the subject. Sure, but none were “guidebooks” (which this book looked like at first) but books where fungi was in the story or the graphic novel series […]
Beulah Has a Hunch!: Inside the Colorful Mind of master Inventor Beulah Louise Henry by Katie Mazeika
October 2023 is biography reading time. Or at least it was for me, especially online. Therefore, another online reader copy I found that was also a biography of someone I was unaware of, was Beulah Has a Hunch!: Inside the Colorful Mind of master Inventor Beulah Louise Henry. And this gal had a lot of hunches! She figured out issues that others did not see as issues, or felt it could not be done, or might have been specific to say women. But she would even […]
Dressing UP the Stars: The Story of Movie Costume Designer Edith Head by Jeanne Walker Harvey
Jose Feeds the World: How a famous chef feeds millions of people in need around the world by David Unger
The Snow Man: A True Story by Jonah Winter
I like biographies. Mostly because you have to be pretty much into the subject to write about people. Granted, not all the time (you might be a contracted writer for a series) but when you have someone like Edith Head, the odds are you are a fan. Otherwise why would you write something about a person that famous, but not very “mainstream?” Oh sure, we know a little about her from the Disney The Incredibles movies, but that is nothing like the real woman. And […]
