I regularly read all kinds of books, including young adult and children’s literature, but this is the first time I’ve ever felt too old to enjoy a book for kids. That being said, I can’t fault it just because I’m not in the target demographic. I think it’d be a fun series of comics for preteens and young teenagers. Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley are five fun girls who are living it up at Miss Qiunzilla Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet’s camp for ladies into […]
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth.
Purely by coincidence, I read Solar Storms during the week that included Columbus Day — a holiday that made me uncomfortable for some time and now makes me sick. Solar Storms is set amongst Native Americans living in northern Minnesota in 1972-73 as their lands are being overtaken for development. Author Linda Hogan, a Chickasaw writer, uses her gifts for language and character development to tell a spellbinding story of connectivity, brokenness, environmentalism, and spirituality with a focus on four incredibly strong and thoughtful women […]
Are you non-compliant?
Are you non-compliant? Do you fit in your box? Are you too fat, too thin, too loud, too shy, too religious, too secular, too prudish, too sexual, too queer, too black, too brown, too whatever-it-is-they’ll-judge-you-for-today? You may just belong on Bitch Planet When you get a load of Kelly Sue DeConnick’s dystopian world — earth as run by a patriarchy called “the Fathers”– you might prefer to be on the Auxilliary Compliance Outpost, also known as “Bitch Planet.” In a not-too-distant future, for reasons that […]
Whacks and Whacks and Whacks
…only a fool would reject the comfort of routine for weeks of murder and monsters. Kindle location 2065 This sequel to Maplewood meets and, in some ways, exceeds its predecessor.