While romantic comedy movies are on the short list of My Jams, I am pretty new to romantic books. I’ve read four in my life, counting this one. So, please go into this review knowing that I am out of my element. Lucy Hutton is a solid protagonist. She’s a successful important person at a publisher, hard-working, into retro fashion, kind of goofy, and her parents run a strawberry farm. I liked Lucy. I had a Fiction Crush on Lucy. Lucy is fun, and it’s […]
How to Bring Peace to Political Discourse in 2017
In The Three Languages of Politics, MIT-educated libertarian Dr. Kling observes that Americans are becoming more and more polarized politically and socially, and that demonization of those who disagree is common. Rather than talking with each other, we are talking past each other. We do this because our primary concerns are often certainty, proving our role in our own political tribe, and downplaying the legitimacy of other positions. We are closing minds instead of opening them. Kling argues that to improve discourse, our goal should […]
More like Bore: Goddess of Thunder
This book includes three issues of the current Thor run, an issue of Thor Annual (a periodic collection of one-shot stories) and a What If? story from forty years ago (a story outside of the normal Marvel timeline). Unfortunately, despite the buffet of options, this collection features little thriller and a lot of filler. I’m disappointed that Marvel would put out a trade with only a few lackluster issues and then slap in some random Thor comics in the back. However, I did think that the […]
Marlowe Sassily Fights Crime in Nighttime LA Again
If you look through my previous Raymond Chandler reviews, you’ll see that I’m a massive fan of Chandler and his famous Los Angeles private eye, Philip Marlowe. The setting, the sassy dialogue, the day drinking at work – it’s all awesome. Unfortunately, while it is still enjoyable, this third book in the Marlowe series is the least-memorable of the series. In this story, Marlowe is hired by a cantankerous battle-axe of a wealthy old matriarch to find a missing rare coin. She’s the perfect client […]
Meow.
I was a boy when Batman Returns was released in theaters, and I remember Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman making a very big impression on my young psyche. She (Pfieffer/Catwoman) is one of my icons of growing up. The Catwoman character’s grey status in the DC-verse has always interested me. Sometimes she’s good, sometimes she’s not. Maybe she’s both. Maybe she’s playing some other game entirely. All I know is that Catwoman is attractive – every meaning of the word applies. This particular story takes place concurrently […]
Psylocke is my hero
The biggest obstacle to enjoying X-Men comics is that there are so many X-Men comics. They’ve been around in some form since 1963 and there have been myriad iterations of the X-team, as well as several spinoffs. How do you know where to start or what to read? I picked this 2013-2015 run simply because it has a “Volume 1” on it, and it seemed like as good a place as any to get back into the X-world. In this iteration of the X-Men, Wolverine […]
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