spunky teenage heroine – Cannonball Read 17

A Moody and Mysterious YA Graphic Novel That Also Somewhat Frustrated Me

Fly by Night by Tara O'Connor

February 5, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

I picked this up somewhat randomly at Barnes & Noble, who have happily broken out their YA graphic novels into their own section at the store I go to, so I don’t have to dig through the whole YA section anymore. It makes me really happy to be living through this renaissance of graphic novels, and I’m excited to see it continue expanding. Fly by Night is a good example of the interesting work that’s being done now, and it was an enjoyable read. Dee’s […]

Magical Teenager – just a bit more contemporary than Harry

What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch

May 14, 2021 by kittenkong42 1 Comment

This new novella in the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch covers events that happened in summer 2013 when his primary protagonist Peter Grant was off solving the case of a missing child in Herefordshire (The Hanging Tree). During that summer we follow Peter’s cousin Abigail Kamara in London as teenagers go missing around Hampstead Heath and then turn up later missing their memories. At this point Abigail is still not formally attached to “The Folly”, but she has already been exposed to the […]

Sansa and the house elves

March 2, 2016 by Bothari43 3 Comments

My sweetie and I have taken multiple multi-state road trips, and we always have problems with food. I always want to try somewhere new and local, enjoying the brief hope and possibility that it’ll be the best place I’ve ever eaten. He always wants Panera or Cracker Barrel. After a few too many Winchester diners and disappointing local ‘flavor’, I started to understand his choices. With Panera and Cracker Barrel, you always know what you’re getting. It’s the same in West Virginia as it is in Missouri, […]

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