So I brought fantingviolet to my library’s annual wine tasting, because my library is awesome like that. With the advent of the self-checkout feature on their app, we get the lovely combination of drunken book selections! We were drinking in the children’s section (being the youngest group at the wine tasting) and so I was able to peruse the lovely selection. I picked up the audiobook of Kenny and the Dragon, because it looked interesting. After I chose it, I realized that it was narrated […]
New adventures in an old favorite
Labyrinth is one of my favorite movies by far. And with the 30th anniversary of the movie happening a few years ago, there were a lot of celebratory books and figures and things that came out. For three years on Free Comic Book Day, there was a short Labyrinth story included in the mix, and those eventually got published as a separate book. The stories and illustrations are by Corey Godbey, who happened to be at New York Comic Con this year, so I was […]
It’s good to cry at fiction. It makes it real.
“It’s good to cry at fiction. It makes it real.” A friend once said that to me and like the dweeb I am I wrote it down and saved it. Because I have the coolest friends, #obvs, and because it is good to cry at fiction, it means it’s real. And let me tell you this book is the realest out there. It’s also maybe a kids book? Whatever. Chunky Rice is a turtle who decides to leave his best friend Dandel […]
You can’t go home again
I still remember watching E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in the theater as a kid. The nearest movie theater was an hour’s drive from our little town in the Deep Midwest, so we didn’t get to go more than a few times a year. I’d been begging my parents to take us to see E.T. for weeks when they finally surprised me for my 8th birthday. I was enchanted from the start, so wrapped up in the story by the time Eliot said goodbye to E.T. that […]