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Category Archives: Graphic Novel
Banned Books Week 2021, 6th day
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
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Images most horrifying
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
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Monsters all
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
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Bigamous reading
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
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This and that and some other things
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
This and that
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
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Banned Books Week 2014
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
Summer omnibus, part 1
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
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ABCs
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
Posted in Fantasy, Graphic Novel, Historical fiction, Newbery Award, YA Lit
Tagged Frank Chin, Gene Luen Yang, Laurence Yep, Maxine Hong Kingston
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