Superman/Wonder Woman Vol. 1: Power Couple collects the first several issues of DC’s ongoing Superman/Wonder Woman series. This is another Charles Soule book; the man seems to be writing every major book that Mark Waid is not writing. I would ask how he does it, but he is a lawyer and hard-charging, self-doubting Type As love to take on more than they should so that makes sense. In a way, that’s one of the themes of this book. In this book, Superman and Wonder Woman […]
“He Texted?” Even the title sounds too high school for me
I received this book through NetGalley, some months ago, and have had a hard time reviewing it. I like to give all the books a fair shake, and I especially don’t like to write reviews were I didn’t like the book. But. I just didn’t like this book. Part of that is that the format – sample texts and responses from the ladies who wrote the book and a ‘panel’ of male text-perts who supposedly help them decipher the (apparently) unreadable text messages and offer […]
Dating in Saudi Arabia
When it came out, this book was actually banned in Saudi Arabia. It’s written in a mix of classical Arabic, Saudi dialect, and other foreign words thrown in to more accurately reflect the ways in which these characters would have communicated. These linguistic and stylistic choices are one of the coolest things coming out of MENA region literature – books and novels that are written in the same dialects spoken by ordinary people – not the formal Arabic of TV presenters and national speeches. The book […]