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Literacy 2008: Book 8: The Graveyard Book
Book The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Synopsis The Jungle Book for goth kids. No, the Real Synopsis After his family is killed, a toddler wanders into the neighboring graveyard. He’s taken in by the...
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Literacy 2008: Book 9: More Information Than You Require
Book More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman Synopsis John Hodgman got famous from “The Daily Show” and those Apple ads and also he’s friends with Jonathan Coulton. (Actually: a continuation...
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Meanwhile, in the future….
Man, I love Atomic Robo. It’s a comic book series about an indestructible robot designed by Nikola Tesla in 1923, who now leads a team of Action Scientists who are “sanctioned by the U.N. to...
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Literacy 2010: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Book Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith Synopsis The author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies discovers Abraham Lincoln’s private journal, detailing his history as the greatest...
View ArticleSomething Rotten
Over the last week or so, I’ve seen several people linking to this review of Hamlet’s Father on the Rain Taxi website. The situation is this: virulent homophobe Orson Scott Card took it upon himself to...
View ArticleAre you not entertained?!
A couple of months ago, I made a very modest resolution to read twelve books by the end of the year. By the beginning of March, I was already starting to lag behind, so I decided to cheat a little by...
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Being Katniss Everdeen
Man, I just can’t get a break. I was just recovering from the discovery that I’m a horrible misogynist-slash-”white knight” pseudo-feminist, and now I find out I’m a racist? If I’m this much of a...
View ArticleWhen I Was a Child, I Made Fun of Childish Things
It’s entirely possible that Joel Stein is being sarcastic. Maybe he got the request from The New York Times to participate in a discussion about adults reading young adult fiction, and his reaction...
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Eerie Tales of the House of Mystery
In my defense: I’ve been hearing about Locke & Key off and on for years. It’s one of the tentpole comics for IDW with plenty of coverage at comic conventions, it’s won several Eisner awards, it...
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Roughage: A Novel
Even by the already low standards of internet-based ponderings over the nature of art, the whole question of “Should adults read Young Adult Fiction?” is a particularly stupid one. Sites don’t raise it...
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