In The Princess and the Pit Stop the use of the different fairy tale characters is clever, but overall it is the race Vanellope of Wreck it Ralph entered with every “twisted fairy tale pun” possible. Yet, Tom Angelberger can be forgiven for that as the book is just plain funny and well done. It is perfect for the four to eight-year-old crowd. Clever illustrations of Dan Santat with his signature style and great colors help this book to be a more fun read. It […]
Street Kid James Bond
I, like so many of you other dedicated Cannonball Book Clubbers, am working my way through The Count of Monte Cristo. I have gone abridged, and it is still a long book. In that time, I have also been interspersing my reading with quicker, lighter, fare. Enter, Kingsman. This is lighter fare if you are a particular kind of reader, or find certain kinds of jokes funny. The first few pages of issue one, where (SPOILER) Mark Hamill gets killed, by accident? Perfection as far […]
Catherine Morland Seeks Her Own Gothic Novel
I’ve been pretty open about the idea that comics are still a reading stumbling block for me. My friend Alison loves comics so whenever she comes across something she thinks might do the trick for me, she makes sure to get it into my hands. I sometimes decline her suggestions due to time limitations, but I always try to see what she’s offering. A couple weeks ago she handed me Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey in comic form, and there was no way I wasn’t going […]
“It takes so little time to change a lifetime and it takes a lifetime to understand the change.”
Disclaimer: I received this ARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I am not intimmately familiar with either Jeanette Winterson or The Winter’s Tale, but I was intrigued behind the idea of the Hogarth Shakespeare collection and was able to read this through NetGalley. Obviously, The Gap of Time modernizes Shakespeare’s work, changing the setting, some character names, and other superficial details, but retaining the driving themes of the original (the summary of which is included in the beginning of Winterson’s story, for […]