The Night Bookmobile, by Audrey Niffenegger – Book Review

The Night Bookmobile, by Audrey Niffenegger

It wasn’t until after I’d read Audrey Niffenegger’s novels The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry that I found out she was also an illustrator and graphic novelist. She has two earlier “novels-in-pictures” The Adventuress (which I’ve since read) and The Three Incestuous Sisters. The Adventuress was really, really strange, but still I picked up a [...]

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Yummy: The Last Days of A Southside Shorty, by G. Neri & Randy Duburke – Book Review

Yummy: The Last Days of A Southside Shorty, by G. Neri

Yummy:  The Last Days of A Southside Shorty, by G. Neri & Randy Duburke Lee and Low Books – July 30, 2010 – Paperback – 96 pages Source: Review Copy I can’t recall when I first heard the story of Robert “Yummy” Sandifer, but I remember that it was sometime earlier this year.  I was [...]

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The Stand: Captain Trips, by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Mike Perkins, Laura Martin & Stephen King – Book Review

The Stand: Captain Trips Graphic Novel

The Stand: Captain Trips, by  Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Mike Perkins, Laura Martin & Stephen King Marvel Comics – March 11, 2009 – Graphic Novel – 160 pages Source: Personal Copy I was really excited to see  Sandy from You’ve GOTTA Read This review The Stand: Captain Trips graphic novel, and I totally blame her for my recent [...]

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Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel, by Eoin Colfer & Andrew Donkin – Book Review

Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel is my second experience reading a graphic novel and I really enjoyed reading it, even though I had very mixed feelings about the anti-hero/protagonist Artemis Fowl.  I mostly didn’t like him or the methods he used to retrieve his family fortune.  I was rooting against him for most of the [...]

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The Demon of River Heights, by Stefan Petrucha & Sho Murase – Book Review

The Demon of River Heights, by Stefan Petrucha & Sho Murase

Nancy Drew and her friends, cousins George and Bess, are in the shooting a movie produced by film students from the neighboring college.  After a incident in the park, Drew and her friends notice that the students have gone missing and she wonders if a rumored monster and the sudden arrival of wealthy businessman Angley [...]

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