While the story of Brick herself is a little odd in the way it is presented with its minimal colors (a few pages are almost “coloring book-like”) and the story told by Brick in her own voice (young, bit naïve and always curious) the showing of real architectural sites is a great touch. That hits the mark perfectly. Brick: Who Found Herself in Architecture by Joshua David Stien has this fun story of a young brick who wants to find their place in the world […]
Have a Night In with Night Out
Night Out by Daniel Miyares has great, lovely illustrations but what is needed is more story. The boy of our story is an outcast orphan (from what you can tell from the illustrations). But after an amazing, quirky, bizarre and fun dream (or is it?) where the boy makes many new friends, he is able to tell a story (the dream) to the other boys. And now, he has found a way to make friends and no longer sits alone at the end of table. […]
“Kindness is an act of bravery. I think, just as hatred is an act of fear. “
Back during CBR7 I picked up Jackaby by William Ritter because it featured a bit of a paranormal mystery with a sassy female protagonist who doesn’t have a romance with the male protagonist. While I love a Romance novel, I don’t need romance in all my stories. As it turns out Jackaby was a strong book and over the years I’ve kept up with the series in a (mostly) timely manner. Ghostly Echoes is the third full novel in the series (there’s one short story […]
This book wasn’t written for me, and I feel fine
Roger Ebert used to talk about how important emotional response was to him as a critic, often more important than the technical and artistic merits. Even the most technically and artistically exquisite film could be a hollow and unsatisfying experience if he didn’t connect emotionally, and the opposite could also be true: sometimes, without any other explanation, a seeming piece of trash could be surprisingly fun simply because it connected to something ineffable inside him. So when the whole “Brie Larson commits white genocide against […]