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She puts the Wonder in Woman

Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson

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I like superheroes. Which some find funny as I am a villain girl. How I love me a good, ol’ baddie! However, when you have an interesting or relatable hero, I tend to find them more to my tastes (but it does not hurt that Adam West was funny and I would not mind saluting Captain American). Okay, I mixed my DC and Marvel there, but this book, Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed, is a new DC adaptation due in June of this year. Laurie Halse […]

You also learn his best man has great hair….

Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration by Bryan Caplan

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This review is less about the book and more the journey I took to find and read. Once you read the title, you do not need to really know more about the book. Do you want to read a non-fiction graphic novel on the subject? Yes or no. But maybe my feelings on the subject will help you decide. I had heard about Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration and even though it was a First Second book (which as you know I […]

Trying to find a past that is not yours

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui

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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui is an emotional story. It is hard to digest all that is presented. On the surface is a story of being an immigrant, but also a child who remembers little of the journey that made her and her family immigrants.  It is a graphic novel that is about becoming an adult who finally learns about her past, the past of her family (as individuals (her parents) and as a family unit). And finally, she learns […]

Social Themes told the modern way

How to Put a Whale in a Suitcase by Raul Guridi

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How to Put a Whale in a Suitcase. Um…. okay? Was my first thought when I saw this title. Then quickly forgot about it. I then saw the display for our holiday/winter newsletter and there it was. Big as life. Or as big as a 0.4″ H x 9.5″ L x 6.6″ W (0.45 lbs.) 32 pages book can be. A quick look at the thinness and the modest amount of text, and I thought, “pffft! I can do this in no time.”  Yeah, do […]

Her big Filipino Christian Egyptian Muslim Life: And isn’t it grand?

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib

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I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a humorous look at when cultures clash and you are the result. Malaka Gharib’s coming of age story shows how life is a balancing of yourself. And, finally finding your place where you have all your pieces comfortable. And love can happen anyplace. Even to an Egyptian Muslim and a Filipino Catholic. And a year after marrying they can have their American Dream: a girl named Malaka (like Monica with an L). Yet, clashes happen. Divorces […]



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