Category Archives: Book Reviews
Book Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (novelization)
When I was younger, we did not have television and rarely went to the movies. This meant that if I wanted to enjoy a film a second or third time, … Continue reading
Review: Unfriending My Ex by Kim Stolz
Former America’s Next Top Model candidate and MTV Video Jockey Kim Stolz recently released a book called “Unfriending my Ex and Other Things I’ll Never Do. Off the cuff, does … Continue reading
Review: Graduation Day by Joelle Chabonneau
Malencia “Cia” Vale learns about the weight of leadership in Graduation Day, the explosive conclusion Joelle Charbonneau’s The Testing trilogy that picks up right where Independent Study left off. This … Continue reading
Review: Beowulf translated by J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien’s prose translation of Beowulf reads like too much butter spread over toast. Soft, warm and like a quick start to the day. Tolkien’s prose removes rhyming couplets, many … Continue reading
Review (AND GIVEAWAY!) : The Truest Thing About You by David Lomas
It is easy to lose ourselves to the daily-ness of our own lives, between scrolling through Twitter feeds, flipping through newspapers, commuting to work or school and engaging in more … Continue reading
Review: Expiration Day by William Campbell Powell
In his debut novel, Expiration Day, William Campbell Powell seamlessly transports his readers to London fifty-plus years into the future. This is a dangerous world, denoted by colored zones for … Continue reading
Comic Trade-Paperbacks – Week 1: Cap & Iron-Man
Like I mentioned in From the Comic Book Store the other day, I managed to pick up a couple comics and the titles of a couple dozen others to read. … Continue reading
From the Comic-Book Store – Week 1
This past week, I went to Floating World comics in Northwest Portland and browsed a bit – even taking the chance to chat with the comics guy a bit. He … Continue reading