Gnartoons by James the Stanton
The cover says it all: Gnartoons by James the Stanton are going to be your favorite cartoon book or the worst piece of monkey doo-doo you have ever seen. Anyway, so can I give this a Zero? As you can see, I am not the audience for this. Or maybe I was too subtle? So, let me sum up: This was … [Read more]
You're a Poet: Ways to Start Writing Poems by Sean Taylor and Sam Usher
When you judge a book by its cover, usually you are going to be mostly right, with of course, exceptions. You see a book that looks like You're a Poet: Ways to Start Writing Poems by Sean Taylor and Sam Usher (illustrated by) and you assume it is going to be terribly cute, silly, maybe even overly … [Read more]
Three Bee Honey Volume 1 by Desi St. Amant and Jon St. Amant
Three Bee Honey Volume 1 by Desi St. Amant and Jon St. Amant (illustrator) is a cute story with a little edge.The edge is that there is a bit of depict happening within the bee hive, and the queen is unaware. So far, the worst things that have happened is that the girls have gotten caught in a … [Read more]
Feeling Like an ADHD Alien by Pina Varnel,
If you haven’t guessed, I like reading. And when a coworker reviewed Feeling Like an ADHD Alien by Pina Varnel, I said, “That sounds like a “me” book.” And I asked for their reader's copy. And when I finally obtained it, I misplaced it. But one day, I was looking for something else and Varnel’s book … [Read more]
Drome by Jesse Lonergan
Drome by Jesse Lonergan is one of those reads where you have to read it to understand this book. And if you do read it, can you tell me what the heck (only I didn’t say heck) did I read? Okay, I get that things have something to do about the Gods and Humans and their struggle with each other. … [Read more]
The Original by Priya Parmar
Fiction about real people is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the author is free to use their imagination to take the reader behind the scenes or into the private moments of public figures, creating a picture of them unavailable to historians bound to stick to the record. If done judiciously … [Read more]
