Tag: reviews
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Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan – A Book Review
Comprised of fifteen short stories, this beautifully illustrated, ninety-six page book is aimed at an audience of twelve and older. Young people will love the magical realism of Tan’s charming stories, as well as the diverse and mesmerizing artwork. Older teenagers and adults will appreciate the above aspects also, but they will also treasure the…
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Iodine by Haven Kimmel – A Book Review
This book, appropriately enough, really has me split down the middle. One hand, I hated it. It encompassed all of the hipster “too-cool-for-everyone” characteristics in the protagonist, Trace, that drive me bonkers. All those songs and musicians that everyone who “dares” to be different listens to? Yep, there in here. The “I so don’t care…
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Burn After Reading – A Movie Review
I have to be honest, as I watched Burn After Reading, I found it more than a little dull and plodding. While touted as a “dark comedy,” I didn’t find much funny about it at all, and actually suffered more apathy in regards to the film than anything. However, and here’s the sign of good…
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Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy – A Book Review
In this third installment of The Border Trilogy, McCarthy brings together John Grady Cole from Book I and Billy Parham from Book II as they work together on a ranch. Though neither delves too deeply into the tragedies in Mexico they both suffered, their unspoken experiences seem to bind them in ways they can’t understand.…
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The Ghosts of Luckless Gulch by Anne Isaacs – A Book Review
This children’s book written by Anne Isaacs and illustrated by Dan Santat is a perfect example of two people who are extremely talented coming together in perfect union and creating a truly special work. Isaacs’ story is just as charming as can be. Estrella is a young girl who runs so fast she leaves fire…
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The Wettest County In the World by Matt Bondurant – A Book Review
This book is based upon the true story of Matt Bondurant’s grandfather and his grandfather’s brothers, a band of bootleggers who were a fearsome and almost preternaturally tough group of men during the Prohibition Era. In The Wettest County In the World, Bondurant presents an intriguing story at its core, but I’m afraid I found…
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army – A Movie Review
With the birth of our daughter over the summer, I was a little too busy to go see Hellboy II: The Golden Army in the theatre, and boy, after watching the DVD, I wish we’d gotten a babysitter! While I enjoyed the first Hellboy, I found it a little too mired in the occult and…
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All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder: Volume I – A Graphic Novel Review
This book is absolutely insane, and I loved it! What we have here is a Batman story free of any previous or current continuity. Writer Frank Miller is taking Batman and starting his story from scratch. (Or is he? More on that later.) The Batman in this storyline is testosterone fueled, immature, and more than…
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