( Gabriel's Angel )

I believe I promised you all a graphic novels roundup? Next up, either a Discworld or a Daisy Dalrymple post, whichever I get together first.

( Bitch Planet, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, and Robert Wilson IV )

This book is fine. It's not bad, it's not good, it's fine ( Read more... )

Well. This, to quote a favorite podcast of mine, was a book ( Read more... )

Someone on Barnes and Noble called this a "horror cozy," which is a description I kind of love, especially in the context of Other Worlds. This book is a pair of novellas describing two rather famous American poltergeist cases, the (inaccurately named) Bell Witch and the Stratford haunting. The novellas are connected by a frame story, psychic ( Read more... )

I aspire to be a children's librarian, and as such I have been working my way through various popular kids books, among them Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Conclusion? I can see why it's so popular among kids, but it's... well, it's really not for adults ( Read more... )

Ophelia is one of those books that flips a classic, in this case Hamlet, and shows someone else's point of view, in this case... well, obviously Ophelia. It's... an interesting take? At least? It sounds to me kinda like Klein read those scholarly ideas that Ophelia was pregnant when she died and ran with them. But I am ahead of myself ( Read more... )

The thing that irritates me about this manga is that the concept is exactly what I want out of life. Badass girl joins Library Defense Force to prevent government from censoring and banning books. Heck, even the concept of a Library Defense Force makes me super, super happy. Unfortunately, the actual manga is less right up my alley ( Read more... )

This one's pretty silly, guys ( Read more... )

Dear Luke, We Need To Talk, Darth: And Other Pop Culture Correspondences by John Moe (or Dear Luke, as I'll be referring to it from now on) is a surprisingly long book of brief letters that might have been exchanged in various forms of pop culture. So, basically, exactly what it says on the tin. For example, the title exchange is Darth Vader trying ( Read more... )