Oh, sweet mercy. What am I supposed to say about this book? My sister and my friend F both read it last year or so. My sister LOVED it, and F was “meh” on it. Basically, I’ve heard you either love it or hate. And spoiler alert: I did not love it. I felt like there two different novels jammed into one. Theo Decker goes to the art museum with his mother, when an explosion kills her but leaves him miraculously alive. While trying to […]
Saga! Saga! Saga! Saga!
Oh, now I’m sad. I’ve read all my Saga and now I have to wait until September. Like the rest of everybody. That’s the problem with really loving something in the moment—you catch up and you can’t binge read/watch it. Blargh. Volume 4 takes place a few years after the events of the third. By now, Hazel is an adorable toddler, though her narrative voice is still that of a much older individual. Both Alana and Marko are trying to figure out how to make […]
SAGA x3!!!
I can’t imagine how torturous it must have been to read Saga as the issues and volumes were released. Volume 2 ended on a cliffhanger (I won’t say what it was, obviously), so I was very grateful to have Volumes 1-4 on my hands right away. You’ll want to read Volume 3 quickly after Volume 2, that’s all I’m saying. Again, in her irreverent style, Hazel narrates the text. But this time, the narration goes back and forth in time a little bit. Here, I […]
Renaissance Betty Friedan
Finally! A comedy I actually thought was funny (I’m looking at you, As You Like It)! After many years of only teaching Shakespeare’s tragedies, I couldn’t face the prospect of teaching Julius Caesar one more time to sophomores. Shakespeare is a bit of a tough sell alone, but Julius Caesar is just so dry. It doesn’t go over well. So I’ve been on a search for a good comedy to teach. Much Ado is shocked me. In a good way. I had never read Much […]
MOAR SAGA
So, I definitely polished off the published volumes of Saga way too quickly. How could I help it? I’ve never read anything quite so compulsively readable and addicting! I think just about every graphic novel I read from here on out is going to be hampered by unfair comparisons to Saga. It’s pretty much the most perfect space opera I’ve ever read: adventure, gory action, romance, and deliciously dark humor. Side note: it’s going to be difficult to say a whole lot about Saga that […]
Let the Bodies Hit the Floor
I’m not a huge fan of Greek tragedies, but I do appreciate works like Oedipus and now Antigone. Of the two, I’m definitely team Antigone. The “sequel” to Oedipus, the action is much more condensed and the theme is much clearer. That being said, there is a lot lost. Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and the niece of the current king. She gets herself into some trouble by wanting to bury her brother, who tried to cause a civil war in Thebes. Being a […]