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9
Mar
2010
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
It’s really no wonder that this was shortlisted for the National Book Award (Young People’s category) and won the Printz award. It’s one of those highly literary stories that trancscends the young adult or genre or the graphic novel genre. In fact, I think it may be enhanced by them.
8
Mar
2010
The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran
I really wanted to love this book. But I just couldn’t. It needs a couple of more drafts before really getting there.
5
Mar
2010
The Sandman: The Doll’s House by Neil Gaiman
Even though I’d just read the first of the Sandman graphic novels a week ago, I appreciated the summary in the beginning of Volume 2. Instead of really refreshing things for me, it served more to better my understanding.
4
Mar
2010
Crashing Parties & Blaspheming God for Love
Over at that other job I have where I write stuff and don’t get paid either, I’ve had a couple of articles lately.
2
Mar
2010
The Unwritten Vol 1 by Mike Carey and Peter Gross
After reading two great reviews of The Unwritten (first by my boss on Slog, and then by Nymeth–both of whose judgement I completely trust regarding graphic novels), I knew that I wanted to read this.
26
Feb
2010
The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
I didn’t know much about Neil Gaiman’s much acclaimed Sandman series before taking this out of the library, except that it is much acclaimed and other comic book characters make appearances, but since I know very little about comics, that wasn’t much help. Did that stop me from loving it? Hells to the Nos.
16
Feb
2010
Talking About Zombies & Angels on Slog
Recently I reviewed Zombocalypse Now by Matt Youngmark on Slog, The Stranger’s blog. My conclusion was:
14
Feb
2010
American Rust by Philipp Meyer
This is one of those novels that comes along in life and just makes you gush. I told my boss about it. I told my mom about it. I finished the book and turned to my husband and said, you need to read this.
11
Feb
2010
Manga Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare & Kate Brown
What fools these Manga be!
9
Feb
2010
The Forgotten Legion by Ben Kane
About 200 pages into this 500+ page epic, I figured out that this most be book 1 of a series. The main characters had not even joined the army yet.
