Rancho Rosetta Days

By On April 13, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Asian American Lit, books

Bowling for Soup make suffering painful teen (tween) cliques fun.

Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time is the fourth Lisa Yee book I’ve read. I was introduced to her writing through a contest at the Rice Daddies blog. Lisa had generously donated five sets of her Bobby Ellis-Chan [...]

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Goodreads Review: American Vampire Volume 4

By On April 3, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In books, comics

American Vampire, Vol. 4 by Scott Snyder
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I don’t remember the previous volumes well enough so I have to ask is Volume 4 the first time the vampires in American Vampire have a little “color” to them? The book begins [...]

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Goodreads Review: Fables Volume 16

By On March 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In books, comics

Fables, Vol. 16: Super Team by Bill Willingham
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I picked up Fables, Volume 16 from the library, after reading Bill Willingham’s introduction to Mike Carey and Peter Gross’ Unwritten. His heralding the age of the LAF (Literary-, Animal-, Fairy Tale- [...]

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Coupon Audit Top 100 Book Blogs (I’m #93)

By On March 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In books, readings & writings

An infographic by the team at CouponAudit

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Arkham City and The Black Mirror

By On March 16, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In books, comics, games & toys, video games

ImaJunation’s Bad Days is one of my favorite sources for superhero parodies.

POSSIBLE SPOILERS WARNING!

I liked the movies (the new ones and the old ones) and the TV shows (the cartoons and the live-action), but it wasn’t until I played the

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