Delacorte Books for Young Readers, August, 2006 ISBN: 0385732643 Available: New In the Intruders Richardson whips up a great pure ghost story. Joel, his sister Cassie and their mother move into a house with his mother’s new fiancé Gerald and his two sons. In addition to coping with the resentment of the children over […]
Month: January 2018
TV Review: The Gifted S1 E6 Got Your SiX
January 28, 2018After Thunderbird discovers his best friend is still alive (and working for the SS), he becomes somewhat obsessed with these secret mutant detention centers and what might be happening in them. He, Reed, and Andy decide to break into a Baton Rouge federal building to find some answers. While Cait has mixed feelings about letting […]
Musings: The Black Witch by Laurie Forest
January 27, 2018The Black Witch by Laurie Forest HarperTeen, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-0373212316 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook Not too long ago, there was controversy over racism in The Black Witch. based on this review. I was sent a copy for review, and the press release seemed to indicate the book was supposed to be the exact opposite of racist, so […]
Candlewick, 2006 ISBN-13: 9780763631208 Available: New and Used “Marley was dead, to begin with”. Charles Dickens doesn’t waste words setting the tone of A Christmas Carol. The bleakness of Marley’s solitary death, and the bitter miserliness of his partner, Ebenezer Scrooge soon establish a dark and lonely atmosphere that lends itself to haunting. Indeed, […]
Book Review: The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick
January 23, 2018Wendy Lamb Books, October, 2004 ISBN: 0385730551 Available: New and Used In The Book of Dead Days, Marcus Sedgwick introduces us to Boy, a teenage orphan who is the servant and apprentice to a stage magician named Valerian. Valerian is on a quest to find a book that will help him get out of a […]
Tv Review: The Gifted s1 e5 BoXed in
January 20, 2018Fresh out of rescuing Polaris and Reed, our plucky band of heroes are trying to get back to the safe house. They split up. Reed and Thunderbird end up back at the compound to a happy family reunion and in time to help lure the SS away from the compound. Cait and the kids help […]
Book Review: The Dare by Brett Williams
January 18, 2018Walking to school the day before Halloween, Davey and Dennis spot a cat hanging in front of the old, abandoned Bentley place. Dennis tells Davey the story of how the Victorian house is said to be haunted after old man Bentley killed his family several years ago and that their ghosts still live […]
Atheneum, August, 2004 ISBN: 0689848374 Available: New and Used Four of Poe’s classic tales are presented here. In The Black Cat, a man blames his black cat for his descent into murder and madness, The Masque of the Red Death is a tale about nobles who hole up in a castle in an attempt to escape the […]
Tv Review: The Gifted S1 E4 EXit Strategy
January 13, 2018After finally getting a clue and sacrificing himself to protect a mother and child, Reed is in SS “protective” custody with, surprise, surprise, Polaris. Meanwhile, desperate to free Polaris, Eclipse goes back to the cartel he used to work for.(I’m sure that will work out great.) Blink begins to suspect that Dreamer implanted false memories […]
Book Review: Batgirl volume 1: The Darkest Reflection
January 11, 2018by Gail Simone, Ardian Syaf, and Vincente Cifuentes DC, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-4012-3465-1 DC’s Batgirl reboot is only a partial one. We pick up sometime after The Killing Joke, where the Joker brutalized Barbara Gordon and broke Barbara’s back. Babs is recovered, thanks to tons of physical therapy and a spinal implant. But she’s still a […]