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Being a superhero can cause super problems in a relationship

Super Adjacent by Crystal Cestari

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While this is a fun YA book about superheroes and the people who date them, it also brings up some relevant points about obsessions with celebrities. Switch out the superheroes with movie stars or singers and some of the issues that come up in this book can easily be seen in today’s society.   Claire is a fangirl, no doubt about it.  (She has good reason to be, up to a certain point.)  She follows the Chicago branch of the Warrior Nation superhero team obsessively […]

I keep singing the title of this to the tune of “Animals” by Maroon 5 for some reason…

Renegades by Marissa Meyer

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We’re in superhero land once again!  This time Marissa Meyer is taking a stab at it.  Now, this book is at a bit of a disadvantage for me, as I’ve just re-read Super Powereds, so it will probably fall short.  I’m also trying to read it in 2 days for a book club, and reading a book on a deadline always makes it feel more like an assignment to me.   Ok, so we have people with superpowers, and they are called prodigies.  They were […]

Two for the paw of one

Super Turbo Saves the Day by Lee Kirby

Pup Detectives V01 The First Case by Feliz Gumpaw

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My recent vacation time was meant to be reading time. But I had a few adventures and just a lot of “Boy, am I too tired to read anything too serious; but OH LOOK! Two short, cute looking young, graphic novels!” The first read was Super Turbo Saves the Day by Lee Kirby, George O’Connor and Stan Kirby. It is also the first in the Super Turbo series. This familiar story of  classroom pets who take it upon themselves to protect their classrooms when students […]

Putting the Kick in Sidekick

Super Sidekicks #1: No Adults Allowed by Gavin Aung Than

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Due November 2020, this funny, clever and modern story is going to be your child’s newest reading series. Super Sidekicks #01: No Adults Allowed follows three superhero sidekicks who are tired of the “kick” part in “sidekick” (after all if they are so super, how come they can’t wash their own super costumes, walk their pets and clean their own secret hideaways?) Therefore, JJ and his fellow sidekicks, go off on their own. Here they learn what friendship is all about and though fighting the […]

People swallow lies easily provided they are big enough

Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

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CBR12 BINGO: Yellow I’ve been in the mood to revisit Watchmen since I saw the extraordinary HBO series earlier this year (best television in recent memory, btw). Then references to the comic book series popped up in Eleanor & Park, and it gave me an extra push to reread the graphic novel that I first encountered when I was in college. Plus. . . .can’t get more yellow than that cover, can you? I wanted to see whether this classic holds up after 34 years, […]



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