Bookstabber Episode 7: The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison https://bookstabber.podbean.com/ In this episode, Gene and Willow discuss The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison. The title character, Maia, is the unlikely, half-goblin ruler of the Elflands who comes to power after […]
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Picture Book Reviews!
Weekend Dad by Naseem Hrab and Frank Viva. Groundwood, 2020. 9781773061085. After his dad moves out, a kid goes for their first weekend visit to their father’s new apartment. It’s clearly going to take them a while to think if […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Athena: Goddess of Wisdom and War by Imogen and Isabel Greenberg
Athena: Goddess of Wisdom and War by Imogen and Isabel Greenberg. Amulet, 2021. 9781419748592. 91pp. After opening with a short guide to the gods and goddesses appearing in the book, the story of Athena’s birth from Zeus’s head, with help […]
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Graphic Novel Review: The Thud by Mikaël Ross
The Thud by Mikaël Ross. Translated by Nika Knight. Fantagraphics, 2021. 9781683964063. 126pp. http://www.powells.com/book/-9781683964063?partnerid=34778&p_bt It’s Noel’s birthday, and he’s super excited about celebrating it with his mumsie. She gives him a guitar, tells him they’ll be seeing AC/DC together in […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Perfect Example by John Porcellino
Perfect Example by John Porcellino. Drawn & Quarterly, 2021. 9781770464681. 132pp. http://www.powells.com/book/-9781770464681?partnerid=34778&p_bt The short comics in this collection show Porcellino at the end of high school in 1986, mostly in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Music is a big part of his […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Big Girls by Jason Howard
Big Girls by Jason Howard. Image, 2021. 9781534318397. 144pp. Contains Big Girls #1 – 6. The last remnants of humanity are trying to start over in The Preserve, a city where giant women protect ordinary-sized people from giant monsters. The […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Factory Summers by Guy Delisle
Factory Summers by Guy Delisle. Translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall. Drawn & Quarterly, 2021. 9781770464599. 156pp. At sixteen, Delisle was hired for a summer job at Quebec City’s pulp and paper mill, where his father had been working […]
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Bookstabber Episode 6: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
Episode 6: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells In this episode, Gene and Willow talk about the first two novellas in Martha Wells’ amazing series The Murderbot Diaries. Their unique narrator is […]
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Graphic Novel Review: Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars The Collected Edition by Jessica Abel
Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars The Collected Edition by Jessica Abel. Backgrounds and designs by Lydia Roberts, colors by Walter. SuperGenius, 2018. 9781545801666. 208pp. Trish isn’t quite old enough to join her local roller derby team, the Terror Novas, but […]
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Book Review: Crying in H-Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
Crying in H-Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner. Knopf, 2021. 9780525657743. 256pp. I’ve heard and read several interviews with Zauner since the book came out a few months back. My favorite is the one where she cooks with YouTube Korean […]
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