February 2013

  • Goodreads Review: “Warp Speed”

    Warp Speed by Lisa Yee My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is the third Lisa Yee book the boys and I have read together. Every once in a while, the boys will retell the scene from Bobby where his little sister asks him what his fish is doing and then break out laughing. Marley,…

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  • Goodreads Review: “Wonderstruck”

    Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick My rating: 3 of 5 stars My kids and I agreed that it isn’t as good as Hugo though it is nearly twice as thick. This doesn’t mean it is a bad book, however. In fact the story was a very good one. I was just not happy with the balance…

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  • Mike Carey and Peter Gross’ Unwritten

    The Neverending Story is my first thing that came to my mind when I thought about the stories I’ve read and seen about books with magic powers. WARNING: Potential Spoilers! In his introduction to Mike Carey and Peter Gross’ first volume of Unwritten, Bill Willngham cleaves the history of comic book stories into two periods:…

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  • Goodreads Review: “Voodoo Heart”

    Voodoo Heart by Scott Snyder My rating: 4 of 5 stars To be honest, “Voodoo Heart” was my least favorite story in Scott Snyder’s collection, Voodoo Heart. Voodoo Heart is a very well organized collection of stories from the writer of one of my recent favorite comic books, American Vampire. The title story marks (though…

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  • Goodreads Review: “You Must Be This Happy To Enter”

    You Must Be This Happy to Enter by Elizabeth Crane My rating: 4 of 5 stars I kept hearing Alison Brie’s character on Community, Annie, as I read the stories in this book. There is this purposeful superficial quality to the tone of voice in the writing — a wide-eyed dreamy “detachedness” –that belies the…

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Vincent Young