Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge
I had planned on making If It Bleeds by Stephen King my first book of 2022, simply to give me a reason to compare to and rant about his other book that I read last year (Billy Summers), but Heaven No Hell was too quick a read to not sneak in first. Did I feel a tad awkward reading some bits in the breakroom at work? Of course. Still, the shame was very short lived thanks to it being such a page turner. To give […]
The Stonekeeper's Curse by Kazu Kibuishi
Amazingly, I only discovered that I could download graphic novels to my library app a few weeks ago, and my son and I have been tearing through some pretty good ones since then. He mentioned that they read the first book in the Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi, The Stonekeeper, at school, so we sought the second one. Thus, I went into reading this book with an 8 year old’s synopsis of the first book. Briefly, Emily has inherited a stone amulet that confers power, […]
The Tea Dragon Tapestry by K. O'Neill
Never has a blurb on a cover so encapsulated my feelings about a book but Carey Pietsch, artist for The Adventure Zone books, has summed up The Tea Dragon Tapestry so succinctly that everything you need to know about it is right there. If you’ve read the previous two Tea Dragon books you must read this lovely conclusion to the trilogy. If you’ve never heard about tea dragons and the quote intrigues you, here are my reviews for the first two books, The Tea Dragon Society and The […]
Ex Machina, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, et al.
Okay, so, apparently I have a big thing for Brian K. Vaughan’s work. I’m a ride-or-die Saga fan, and while I do miss that series, I think it’s good that the creative team has given it time to breathe before bringing it back. I also enjoyed Paper Girls, Vol. 1, which I read a few weeks ago and which I intend to pour through. I own a copy of Y: The Last Man, and that one’s coming up soon in the TBR pile. But this is something else. A […]
Paper Girls, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughn, et al.
Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller and Dave Mazzucchelli
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Read two comics and re-read a horror classic. All good in their various ways, two not living up to the potential of greatness and one with said potential… Paper Girls, Volume 1 A lot of folks warned that this one would be confusing but being a huge “Saga” fan, I was willing to give Brian K. Vaughn the benefit of the doubt. And it paid off. It’s a good table setter for what promises to be a good story. I liked the characters and, I’ve […]
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
The Magic Fish By Trung Le Nguyen I knew this book had won awards going in, but I wasn’t really sure what to expect. Whatever awards this got, it most definitely deserved! Going in, I knew that it was about a Vietnamese boy, Tíển, struggling to find the words to come out to his parents, while bonding with them over fairy tales. But it is so much more than that. It is a story about family and immigration and survival. It’s about acceptance […]
