I know I put in the official Best and Worst List but honestly out of almost 600 reviews (and several I haven’t posted yet) I’m going to have more than three best and one worst. Therefore, I am going to honor y’all with my list of only the ones I have posted a review for here that could have been used. The bold are the ones I used in the official count, italics almost used and the rest were on the list. WORST DAYGLOAYHOLE #1 […]
Well, I had an experience.
DAYGLOAYHOLE #1 by Ben Passmore
I was not going to review DAYGLOAYHOLE #1 by Ben Passmore. Mostly because I really disliked it. I mean I cannot stress how much I really disliked this book. The second reason is you can only get this book via Silver Sprocket’s website. This is probably because it is more of a zine or comic book store comic (so I guess you might be able to locate it at your local comic store), and less of a traditional graphic novel. But when I realized that […]
The man in the black hat and his magic box
Gwendy’s Button Box (Book 1) by Stephen King
Wanna know something funny? I think Gwendy’s Button Box (Book 1) found me and not the other way around. It has been out for awhile (2017 or so) and I had seen it off and on, but it was Stephen King so I expected it to be super horror, gross, and I was never in the mood for that. Then one day, I saw a list of books and this one was on it. And I said, you know what? It is short, let me […]
I found a new place to dwell
Heartbreak Hotel by Micol Arianna Beltramini
Several books on my recent HBR (Have Been Read) list have had similar feelings and/or themes. And yet, each one is its own unique read. Heartbreak Hotel by Micol Arianna Beltramini and illustrator Agnese Innocente falls into this “alike but not alike” category. This coming of age story is similar to the stories The History of Everything: A Graphic Novel by Victoria Evans, Raging Clouds by Yudori, and The Flip Side by Jason Walz. Yet, it is also its own work and has its own […]
A Wooly Mystery
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
George, the shepherd, was dead. The flock found him in the pasture with a spade shoved into his belly, so he clearly didn’t die of natural causes. But who killed him? At the instigation of Miss Maple, the (unofficial) smartest sheep in Glenkill, the flock decided they’d have to investigate George’s death themselves. This may sound like the set-up for a cozy mystery, but Three Bags Full is a witty philosophical tale that just so happens to be from the perspective of sheep. As they […]
So Apartheid South Africa Was Way More Complicated than Black vs White
Let the Dead Lie by Malla Nunn
So we are back in the newly segregated apartheid version of South Africa, as formed in the 1950s. Detective Emmanuel Cooper has had to revert from his former status as WWII vet and (most importantly) white person, to mixed race instead. But Major van Niekerk (white Afrikaner) has a need for him and his partner and friend, the Zulu Detective Constable Samuel Shabalala, tracker extraordinaire. A poor young white boy, Jolly Marks, had been found in the port town of Durban, South Africa, near the […]
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