(source) Bodies sounded awesome; a twist on the classic Jack the Ripper tale spanning four different eras: 1890, 1940, 2014, and 2050. However, it was very hard for me to follow. There are word and thought bubbles in almost every box, making it hard to follow two lines of thought at the same time. I found the 2050 storyline the most interesting and having the coolest twist at the end. Everyone but one woman has lost their memory and she…
(source) Written by Kate Leth, Art by Drew Rausch. This is such a great read! Drew Rausch did such an amazing job on the artwork- I can’t stop gushing about it and it is so, so perfect for Edward Scissorhands. This story takes place two generations after where the movie leaves off. Meg, Kim’s granddaughter, is struggling to believe that Edward is not real and that her grandmother was lying about him (her mother is adamant about this). She decides to go…
Some Wednesday in May Yes, yes, I skipped a week. Whoopsie! I seem to have been reading things that I didn’t want to/feel like review(ing) here and have been slacking on completing posts. Either I have written the review or taken the pictures but not both. As their summer intern, I have been working on the Urban Craft Uprising blog publishing vendor interviews and organizing giveaways. While I usually only touch those posts once a week, that’s about how often…
For those who enjoyed (or loved, like me) the Kite Runner novel or movie, this is for you! Ever since I read it in college I have loved it, Khaled Hosseini, and learning about the middle east. It even was part of my decision to focus the minor for my BA in middle east studies. This story is about Amir, a boy growing up in Kabul, Afghanistan, and how he and his family are affected by political turmoil in the…
I fell in love with children’s books as an adult in a Children’s Lit class I took in college. The professor was so enthusiastic about the stories we studied that it was hard not to get excited too (My art history teacher was the same, plus some. I wish I could attend a class of hers every day for the rest of my life). We read fairy tales, Harriet the Spy, Alice in Wonderland, several others, and James and the…
source Trees Vol.1 is a slow-moving story in a world similar to ours where “trees” have been put on earth, presumably by extraterrestrial beings. They haven’t done anything or had an effect since landing. Throughout this arc we learn the stories of three different groups of people and how the trees directly or indirectly affect their lives. Relationships develop, people change, discoveries are made. At the end, we finally start to see some action and a good set-up is left…
A witch hunter is exactly what it sounds like; a member of a special force for the king who hunts and captures witches, wizards, demons, and the like. Elizabeth Grey is the only female witch hunter and one of, if not the, best. At sixteen and already having served for a few years, she is found with a pouch of herbs on her and accused of being a witch. She is jailed and awaiting her fate (a public burning) when…
The residents in Midnight, Texas have each moved here because this is a town where everyone knows not to ask questions; they don’t want any questions asked about them so they don’t ask in return. We are slowing learning the secrets of Manfred (a psychic), Fiji (a witch), Olivia, Bobo, Lemeul (a vampire), and the other residents, but Day Shift focuses on Manfred and the death of one of his loyal clients, Rachel Goldthorpe. The town, old residents and new, come together…
When I found out about this book and discovered it was available on NetGalley for review, I was so excited. I imagined it being a next-level guide for fangirls who like a bunch of nerdy stuff already but wanted some direction on getting to the next level. How it actually reads is like a book for preteens, most likely those who do not have nerdy parents and don’t know where to start. The Fangirl’s Guide includes a “field guide” to…
I waited an unnecessarily long time to read this after purchasing it. It came up in my search for more things written by Brian K. Vaughan after reading Saga. It is inspired by a true story: “In April of 2003, four lions escaped the Baghdad Zoo during the bombing of Iraq. The starving animals were eventually shot and killed by U.S. soldiers.” I find it pretty amazing to base a whole comic on two sentences, imagining the situation these lions and…