I’m always seeking to read about real events, and I’m developing a college course on New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. In my research about fiction and nonfiction, A.D.: New Orleans after the Deluge made a lot of lists. I decided to give it a shot, especially because it was also a graphic novel, and I appreciate narratives that merge or bend genres. Josh Neufeld takes into six real-life accounts from different parts of New Orleans: a wealthy doctor, who decides to ride out the storm […]
13: Jane
I read this book almost two months ago. Reading books has been a bit easier this year, but the reviewing seems about four times as difficult as years past. I’ll see what I can do. I do remember picking this up from the library because of name recognition. Aline Brosh McKenna is a powerhouse writer and co-creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which I finally truly began to understand this third season. I was intrigued that McKenna had written a graphic novel based on Jane Eyre, and […]
The Saga continues…again. Volume 4. This is getting serious.
Volume 4 of this incredible series keeps its foot on the gas. Marco and Alana seem to be hitting some problems in their relationship. Okay, yeah, so the entire story hinges on them having to run from multiple groups of people trying to kill them, so it hasn’t really been a cake walk persay, but as a couple, they have been a passionate sexy love bomb for quite awhile. They are starting to fray on the edges, and more tumult is forecast for the couple. […]
People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
I know that I have read V for Vendetta before, and yet I really didn’t remember it at all? Was it so long ago and was I just too young to really grasp it at that time? Who knows, but now I feel like it is a pretty striking time for a re-read, given everything happening in the world today (though to be fair this has been happening in so many places for so long). I guess the last number of years have just really […]