Category Archives: Graphic Novel

Banned Books Week 2021, 6th day

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Lizzie Ross

Today, a quiz. In 2019, the New York Public Library added a Banned Books Quiz to its website, and it’s still available two years later. Only 7 questions, so any trivia fiend can probably finish it in under a minute. … Continue reading →

Posted in Am reading, Banned/Challenged Books, Graphic Novel | Tagged Azar Nafisi, Jason Reynolds, Marjane Satrapi, Ray Bradbury | 5 Comments

Images most horrifying

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Lizzie Ross

Day 2 of Witch Week, and I’m honored that my review of villains in graphic novels is featured today over at Calmgrove. And someday I may explain all about the Bat-winged Hamburger Snatcher, who is, alas, NOT included in my … Continue reading →

Posted in Fantasy, Graphic Novel, Science fiction, Villains, Witch Week | Tagged Dan O'Neill | 4 Comments

Monsters all

Posted on September 16, 2019 by Lizzie Ross

This is my first of two posts for RIPXIV (Readers Imbibing Peril, 14th year), a community read of frightening books. And let me start with this: I’m not a horror-genre type of reader (or viewer — I repeatedly turn away … Continue reading →

Posted in Graphic Novel, Horror | Tagged Beowulf, David Rubín, John Gardner, JRR Tolkien, Santiago García | 6 Comments

Bigamous reading

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Lizzie Ross

When I haven’t the energy to read Proust, I read something else. In that respect, I’m no different from anyone else. But the other day my daughter commented on how strange it was that I was sitting on the couch reading … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure, Graphic Novel, History, Humorous, Little Free Library, Mystery, reading, Travel book | Tagged Allie Brosh, Donald Culross Peattie, PG Wodehouse, RA Dick, Robin Sloan, Wilbur Bassett | 3 Comments

This and that and some other things

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Lizzie Ross

For the past 3 weeks, it hasn’t been Radio WTWP (wall-to-wall Proust, with a tip of the hat to Prof. Peter Schickele) on my reading shelf. Here’s some other stuff I’ve been clearing out: Desmond Seward’s The Demon’s Brood, a 300-page bare-bones … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure, Graphic Novel, Historical fiction, History, reading | Tagged Arthur Ransome, Desmond Seward, Jean Craighead George, Noelle Stevenson, Susan Cooper | 9 Comments

This and that

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Lizzie Ross

As NYC swelters through the dog days of summer, I find myself wishing for an early start to fall. This summer, what with work projects and reading projects and writing projects, has been busy. It’s also passed quickly — in ten … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure, Gothic, Graphic Novel, Newbery Award, Poetry, Supernatural | Tagged Bram Stoker, Cece Bell, Jacqueline Woodson, Jessica Day George, Kwame Alexander | 6 Comments

Banned Books Week 2014

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Lizzie Ross

I was searching my shelves for old copies of Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants series and couldn’t find any. Evidently, in some crazed clear-out, I must have gotten rid of them. When my daughter was in 4th grade, these books were all … Continue reading →

Posted in Banned/Challenged Books, Graphic Novel, Humorous | Tagged Dav Pilkey | 2 Comments

Summer omnibus, part 2

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Lizzie Ross

More from my summer’s reading: Aaron Starmer, The Riverman (2014). In upstate New York, near the Canadian border, Alistair Cleary lives a normal life of taking dangerous dares and avoiding nosy neighbors. Then Fiona Loomis, not yet 13, asks him to write her biography. She tells him about an … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure, Classic, Graphic Novel, Historical fiction, short stories, YA Lit | Tagged Aaron Starmer, Gene Luen Yang, George Eliot, Joan Aiken | 2 Comments

Summer omnibus, part 1

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Lizzie Ross

Once again I find myself with a foot-tall stack of books I’ve read but not yet reviewed for my followers, next to a stack of papers to grade and projects to complete for school, which started 3 weeks ago. Normally, … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure, Fantasy, Graphic Novel, History, Humorous, London Underground, Newbery Award, YA Lit | Tagged Gene Luen Yang, Jack Gantos, Margi Preus, Peter Ackroyd, Sonny Liew | Leave a comment

ABCs

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Lizzie Ross

Though written in 3 different decades, these four books run along parallel routes that often meet and the separate, each providing insight for understanding the others. Each is about characters of Chinese heritage, about Chinese immigrants in the US, about … Continue reading →