Bad Girls Throughout History is a beautifully illustrated book with brief histories of a hundred women who paved the way for today’s modern woman. Shen begins with Lillith and ends with Malala Yousafzai sprinkling activists, actresses, scientists and spies throughout history as she goes. To be a bad girl is to break any socially accepted rule. For some women, it’s the way they dress. For other girls, it’s the act of going to school. At one point, it was fighting for the right to vote. The […]
Secret origins of fiendish pony villains
Last month, I attended a lovely library talk about women in comics. Christina Rice, a local librarian and comics writer, talked about her work on My Little Pony comics. I’ve always been a fan of My Little Pony, but hadn’t really watched the new show. To sate my curiosity, I picked up the My Fiendship is Magic volume. These five comics explore the secret origins of five pony villains. It was interesting to see kingdoms outside Equestria, the main pony land, told from the various POVs. Beware, […]
Paper Capes and Spandex Gods
Despite my admittedly less than sophisticated taste in literature, I never expected to write about a children’s book for Cannonball Read. However, I was recently introduced to The Man in the Ceiling while I was helping my mom clean out my brother’s room and discovered it among his various childhood artifacts. As I know Jules Feiffer from his brilliant political and satirical cartoons in the Village Voice and from illustrating one of my own childhood favorites The Phantom Tollbooth, I was intrigued. With my brother’s […]
Making Sure my Potter Journey is Complete
I’m about 2/3 of the way done with the audiobook of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix but I’m trying to make my Potter immersion 100% before the end of CBR9 so I’ve also added the novellas JK Rowling wrote like this and the Tales of Beedle the Bard (which I’ll hit closer to Deathly Hallows) to my TBR. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, cowritten by Ms. Rowling and Newt Scamander, is a brief encyclopedia of the magical creatures that inhabit the Wizarding world but hide from […]
The Final Putsch:
So this one begins the final push in the series. Actually, the previous two books did that, where we are no longer looking for guardians so much as following the orphans on the trail of their pursuits. One thing I really like about this book is that the orphans are pursuing Olaf and not the other way around. It flips the power a little. They are not as powerful and cannot do to him what he would do to them, but it’s a start. This […]
In which I rant about the TV show:
So this book began to give me the inkling of what was bothering me about the tv show. I have not read these books before and I thought, well, I will read ahead of the show and all will be well. But they screwed me over. I didn’t know that not only would they ruin the big surprises of the books, most of which I haven’t even gotten to yet, but they would do so for no particularly good reason. These books are mysteries. Plain […]
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