Bibi Blair has it all, a loving family, Navy SEAL fiance, promising literary career. Bibi is a Valiant Girl, with memories of a happy childhood by the sea with laid back surfer parents and her loyal rescue dog. Except for the apartment above the garage, the one she knows is evil without knowing why. And the dog collar she hides in a box as a child and never looks at. And the fact that she was forced out of her prestigious writing program and has no […]
Darkness Falls
The fifth book in the Gone series by Michael Grant is Fear. Fear picks up about four months after the previous book so now the kids have been stuck in the FAYZ (a giant opaque bubble) for a year, surviving the best that they can with limited resources, all kinds of weird mutated animals, oh and an evil entity that needs a body in the hopes that it can be “born” and wreck havoc on the world outside of the FAYZ. So yeah, the kids […]
Goodbye Ziggy Stardust…
It’s another picture book, you guys, so buckle up. I have Opinions. Some of you may be familiar with Melanie Watt from her Scaredy Squirrel series, although I don’t know how popular she is outside of Canada. Scaredy Squirrel is a good series for kids who are a little hesitant about new things. Childhood is scary. That series is fine but has never caught my interest particularly. This book however! This book is gorgeous. The illustrations are beautiful and detailed with a uniquely 60s aesthetic. […]
I am Healthy, I am Whole, but I Have Poor Impulse Control
Laurie Notaro calls herself a “Pointer-Outer of Extraordinary Acts of Incredible Foolishness and, on Occasion, Rudeness.” I find that the older I get, the more I become one of these Pointer-Outers myself. Although I’ve never yelled at an old woman for walking too slowly through a Costco (only to discover she was walking that way because she was on oxygen), or lectured the characters at Disneyland for not wearing pants (Notaro does both), I fear the day may come, if I don’t learn to keep my mouth […]