book review
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If given the opportunity to speak with Joan Cooney and the other surviving Sesame Street founders, the first question I would ask them is “Do you think it worked?” Did Sesame Street help the audience of economically disadvantaged kids whose plight was the inspiration for the show? Even though Sesame Street and its characters are…
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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 books as prizes (Bobby vs Girls (Accidentally) and Bobby…
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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 Arkham City video game that I actually wanted to read a Batman comic.…
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Sodagreen’s “Little Universe” (the video above) plays in the background at the sushi restaurant where Ray meets some people who will help him settle into his “new” life. A translation of the lyrics is available at Asian Fanatics.net. It’s rare that I finish a book in less than three days. I’m the kind of reader…
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Reading Thad Rutkowski is like reading the lab journal written by the rat running the maze. His observations are just as emotionally sparse as those of the scientist conducting the experiment. You are presented with a circumstance (the experiment and the hypothesis being tested) and then you are given a series of actions and reactions.…
