((Why is this YA? Technically it’s not. But in all my experiences most people who dove into the Anne Rice depths started reading her books in their teens. In fact both The Witching Hour and Interview with the Vampire are deeply ingrained stories particularly to the LGBT+ community.)) ((Also, this will have spoilers for […]
Webcomic Review: Love Me to Death
September 15, 2022Love Me to Death is an online serial manga on Webtoons with chapters available weekly for free (and the three most recent chapters are paid.) It centers on Victor, a necromancer, who lives in a South American flavored town, part of an empire controlled by the Church of the God of Life. Necromancy is outlawed […]
Book Musings: The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
September 13, 2022The Witching Hour by Anne Rice is not a book for teens. It really isn’t. And yet, as I’m watching book banning cases pop up, like this one in Virginia, I’m seeing in the comments, over and over “But I read Anne Rice when I was 13.” And…well I did. I first read Anne Rice […]
T.V. Review: Ms. Marvel Episode 6: No Normal
September 8, 2022With the djinn, kinda sorta defeated by their own hubris and Kamala’s family all set to Support, the only (obvious, because let’s face it Kamran is definitely sus) enemy thread left is the DODC. It’s great to see the whole community come behind Kamala in this episode, certainly a change from other super hero movies, […]
BOOK REVIEW: BLOOD SCION BY DEBORAH FALAYE
September 6, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) HarperTeen, 2022 ISBN-13: :978-0062954046 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Blood Scion is horrific but I don’t know if I would call it horror– it is African fantasy. Sloane Shade is a Scion– a blood descendant of an Orisha, a child […]
T.V. Review: Ms. Marvel Episode 5: Time and Again
September 1, 2022And here’s the part where I get personal, because, as a educatee of U.S. public schools I have to admit that I did not know what The Partition was before Ms. Marvel. I knew of British occupied India from literature (primarily Kipling) and my own further reading, but school absolutely failed me when it came […]
TV Review: Ms. Marvel Episode 4: Seeing Red
July 23, 2022In episode 4 of Ms. Marvel Kamala and her mom travel closer to the source of the mysterious bangle bringing out her powers by visiting family in Pakistan. After first setting the scene with some touristy and family activities, which are absolutely beautiful and fascinating bits of representation, handled with grace and levity, Kamal meets […]
Movie Review: Thor Love and Thunder
July 21, 2022Avoiding spoilers is increasingly difficult for fans these days. I fell prey to a few, despite only being a week late to seeing the newest Thor movie. I voluntarily read a review from one of those more highbrow sites that bemoaned the movie as. more or less, an overexcited movie about well meaning Golden Retriever […]
BOOK REVIEW: I AM MARGARET MOORE BY HANNAH CAPIN
July 19, 2022**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** I Am Margaret Moore by Hannah Capin Wednesday Books, 2022 ISBN-13: 9781250239570 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org ) In comparison to the other two books I’ve read by Capin (Foul is Fair, retitled Golden Boys Beware, and The Dead Queens Club) I Am Margaret Moore is more experimental, slower- moving, and more pessimistic. Margaret […]
T.V. Review: Ms. Marvel Episode 3: Destined
July 14, 2022In Episode three we finally get to see some links between the t.v. incarnation of Ms. Marvel and the comic origins of Ms. Marvel. They are subtle, but as the episode opens in a flash back showing where Aisha (Kamala’s great grandmother) found the bangle that appears to be bringing out Kamala’s powers we get […]