I picked this book because I’ve been hearing positive buzz about Joe Hill and they are making a movie of this novel. I normally like to read the book before the movie, so I decided to give it a shot. Joe Hill is the son of Stephen King, and he has his dads skill of making observations that gives the novel a realistic feel. For example, I remember in one of the Stephen King books a character blows his nose and then ‘peeks at it’. It’s that […]
Hunting down God with a preacher and a vampire
Jesse, a fallen preacher and his girlfriend Tulip are traveling to the Grail to save their vampire friend Cassidy. More or less. Preacher draws on western mythology mixing it with religious critique and vulgar comedy. It’s brilliant. We follow the trio, sometimes duo, into various deadly situations and out – and in this sense book two is a straight line from book one. We get introduced to lots of new characters in this book as well; Herr Starr who works for “The Grail” under the […]
Family Therapy, Genograms, and Helping Skills
More textbooks! I swear this isn’t all I read, but when you have to read so much for school, the last thing you want to do when you have free time is crack open another book (so shameful, really, but I just got a few new comic books I should be able to work my way through soon!). And so, here are a few more of my required readings for my current educational program in art therapy, which might come across as kind of dry… […]
Futher adventures in children’s poetry
I think the best part about books of poems written for children is that the poets allow themselves to be unabashedly inspirational or absurd. They let themselves go past the limits of ‘ordinary’, into territory that’s considered too sentimental or ridiculous for grown-ups: When it comes to writing for children – particularly writing poems for children – there are no such boundaries. The less ‘normal’ the better, the more sweet or shocking, the more relate-able, it seems. And someone who’s figured this out pretty well […]