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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Michael Chabon, published in 2000. It follows two cousins, Jewish-American Sammy Claymann and Jewish-Praguer Josef Kavalier, and their experiences in the comic book industry leading up to and during America’s involvement in WWII. As a reader of comic books, I find any… Continue reading Review: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
October 2019 is going to be my first October participating in Victober, a Victorian themed read-a-long through the month of October. This year it's being hosted by Lucy@LucytheReader, Kate@BooksandThings, Ange@BeyondthePages, and Kate@KateHowe. I'm sort of folowing the prompts, but will admit that I'm stretching some of them a little, and I'm not doing all of… Continue reading TBR: October/Victober
Published by Titan Books, Mad Love is the novelisation of Mad Love and Other Stories, the Batman comic, an adaptation of Batman: The Animated Series (S.4, Ep.21). Essentially this is the origin story of the one, the only, the insatiable, Harley Quinn. Let's start at the very beginning... If you're going to have a prologue… Continue reading Review: Mad Love by Paul Dini, Pat Cardigan
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archives #2) by Brandon Sanderson After it took me so long to read The Way of Kings I knew I needed a little break between the two, and the The Priory of the Orange Tree arrived, and that break turned into a longer one. But, at long last, it's time to… Continue reading TBR: May 2019
For some reason April was a very messy reading month for me. I didn't get to all the books on my TBR, which was a shame, but I did read enough to sat ahead of my reading challenge. These are the books that I did get to... The Raven King (All for the Game #2)… Continue reading Wrap-Up: April 2019
Welcome, welcome to the smallest haul in the world, or at least on this blog. This month the only book I bought was... Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #5) by Rick Riordan I own books #1-4 of this series, and could not find a matching cover for this last… Continue reading Haul: April 2019
When I saw the artwork for Adventure Awaits I was pretty sure I knew what book was going to be in the box, but lets see what else was included https://www.instagram.com/p/BwM-bqEng5O/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Excalibur Water Bottle, artwork by @SarahandSweet This white playact water bottle, with gold lid, showcases some of Sarah's gorgeous artwork, depicting the Lady of… Continue reading Unboxing: March “Adventure Awaits” Illumicrate
Sometimes I know exactly what my TBR is going to look like and sometimes it takes multiple drafts, this is the latter. The Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy Ever since I first heard about this YA sci-fi I knew that it was a book I wanted to get my hands… Continue reading TBR: April 2019
I had a pretty good reading month in March even though I didn't get to every single book on my TBR... Morning Star (Red Rising #3) by Pierce Brown 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 First of all, thank you, Pierce Brown for having a little re-cap at the beginning because it's been two years since I last read this… Continue reading Wrap-Up: March 2019
I have a slightly smaller book haul this month, but don't be but off because I will be bringing you a completely separate graphic novel haul very soon. I decided to split these two up, simply because I want to build on my Comic Corner series a bit more, so be sure to keep an… Continue reading Book Haul: March 2019
