CBR10Bingo – Covers Here’s the covers I found: Anyway, I misunderstood the title of the book every single time I read it until the audiobook narrator said it for me. I was eyeing this one for awhile and I am a little leery of story collections because so many times they are treated as a means to an end, and so you either get the same story told a bunch of different times or you get stuff that’s very typical of the market. The […]
I have lived ten years of wild rovings, of conquests and discoveries, in those woods; the day when I have to leave them my heart will be very heavy.
CBR10Bingo – This Old Thing? for Claudine at School CBR10Bingo – Dream Vacation for Claudine in Paris Claudine in School Book 1! from 1904 Man, French people are way more cool about sex than Americans are. This is not a surprise as most countries are way more cool about sex than Americans are. But this is a book that doesn’t just imply sex between characters, but heavily suggests it. And there’s very clearly sexual attraction and playfulness between school-age girls, and this book was widely […]
Read out of order, stood on its own
When I picked this up to read I was confident I had read Ms. Marvel Vol. 3. Oops, I was wrong about that, darn fickle memory. Even though I was missing 4 issues of backstory, this collection was self contained and gave enough information through dialog that I got on just fine. Kamala Khan as Ms. Marvel continues to be my other new favorite superhero (right alongside Squirrel Girl). While other supers are associated with more glamorous cities, Ms. Marvel is the protector of Jersey […]
I wish I had the boundless optimism of Squirrel Girl
The collaboration between writer, Ryan North, and artist, Erica Henderson, has created the current incarnation of Squirrel Girl, a favorite superhero in our household. Doreen Green, a.k.a. Squirrel Girl, is a second year computer science student and a superhero (with powers of a Girl and the powers of a Squirrel) who has teamed with the Avengers. With her cheerful demeanor, boundless optimism, and determination to talk things out with villains, she also is the perfect antidote to grim dark superheros. In the third volume of […]