Books are the narrative backbone of the drama, and not simply because the young woman, Yoon Ji-ho, is a struggling writer. Ji-ho looks to books as companions, as supportive as her closest friends are. The words that come to life in her, the words that narrate the whole series and welcome us into the folds of her heart and mind, are born from the books she’s read and the ideas they cultivate in her....
Well, maybe not comics as a whole. While all of the women and about half of the men I passed who noticed my casual Captain Marvel cosplay gave me the, “aw yeah,” nod, I got a fair number of glares from the remaining dude bros. Until I glared back, at which point they made solid eye contact with the floor but that’s another post altogether… ANYWAY. DC and Marvel never have a huge presence at this particular con, which I don’t mind as it gives smaller publishers a chance to shine and me a chance to explore what they have to offer....
Perhaps the most terrifying statistic is this: suicide and overdoses are the leading cause of death during the first year postpartum and 100% of those deaths are preventable. There’s no question that the lack of guaranteed parental leave is the top contributor to this, as it weaves among all of the reasons and challenges birthing people experience postpartum. They lack support, they lack sleep, they lack time for their bodies and brains to heal after nine months of growing a child and months after their bodies experienced trauma to birth them, and they don’t eat well....
When I was recently listening to my Madonna mix, it struck me that romance novels would pair up quite nicely with some of her songs. Now, I know that this may take some convincing but if you’ll allow me to expand on this, I’m confident you’ll be pleasantly surprised with my thought process. Because, with it being too hot to go out and do much of anything, I’ve had a lot of time to think about this....
About her imprint, Kaling says, “There are so many talented women who are writing smart, juicy, funny stories, and I’m so excited that through Mindy’s Book Studio, I can help bring readers everywhere more books that reflect the diversity of our society.” We can likely expect more light, funny, heartfelt entertainment in similarly experimental formats in the future.
This is the history of temperance and prohibition as you’ve never read it before: redefining temperance as a progressive, global, pro-justice movement that affected virtually every significant world leader from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries.Unlike many traditional “dry” histories, Smashing the Liquor Machine gives voice to minority and subaltern figures who resisted the global liquor industry, and further highlights that the impulses that led to the temperance movement were far more progressive and variegated than American readers have been led to believe....
“Today, The Walt Disney Company has announced the updated release dates for their new live-action Marvel Studios feature film slate following the delay of several titles. As revealed moments earlier, spy-action thriller Black Widow will be heading to theaters on November 6, 2020, with the debut of an exciting new team of Super Heroes in The Eternals, landing on February 2, 2021. A previously untitled Marvel Studios Live Action has been revealed to be the sequel to Captain Marvel!...
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“African literature has witnessed a growth of memoir and fiction that deals with queer sexualities. For example, Chris Abani’s GraceLand in 2004, Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees in 2015, and Freshwater in 2018. The three are coming-of-age novels with queer protagonists: Abani chronicles the life of Elvis Oke in a slum of Lagos during the 1970s. Okparanta narrates the story of a young lesbian girl during the Nigerian civil war....
But maybe it wasn’t a joke. On May 19, Sweet Magnolias premiered on Netflix. The first season is a delightful introduction to the town of Serenity and the three friends at the story’s center: Maddie, an almost-divorced mother of three; Dana Sue, the owner and head chef of the best restaurant in town; and Helen, who seems to be everyone’s lawyer for everything. The three have been friends for a long time, and have decided to go in together on a new venture....
The Coble’s claim that main character Xiomara’s language has a clear anti-Christian agenda, which “violates constitutional safeguards against government infringement of religion.” Lake Norman Charter School released a statement noting that they would not censor or remove The Poet X from classrooms. The Cobles were given the option to select another book for their child but they refused. Acevedo’s verse novel The Poet X follows Dominican-American Xiomara, a teen girl living in Harlem with her Catholic mother....
The comics characters are beloved by fans of all ages. Who hasn’t seen someone wearing a Marvel costume during Halloween, for example? Or at a comic convention? Fans of Marvel are often also passionate about the rivalry with DC Comics, debating the merits of each and why Marvel is the best. While the die-hard fans probably already know the ins and outs of Marvel Comics and the Marvel Universe, there are useful tidbits of information for the casual viewer or reader in this introduction....
The great thing about horror is that there are tons of scary topics out there. It doesn’t matter if the fear comes from something paranormal or something very real, like a home invasion. The latter actually makes my heart race even more than ghosts do. What I mean to say is that tons of things can qualify as horror, and not all of them are pee-your-pants scary. Plus, the genre mixes really well with others, like sci-fi or even comedy....
How can you play the game when the cards are stacked against you? The debut Entertainment Weekly calls “this summer’s hottest YA debut” is a blistering exploration of racism, identity, and privilege. When Devon and Chiamaka are selected to be part of their elite school’s senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. Shortly after the announcement, someone begins using anonymous text messages to reveal secrets about the two of them that turn their lives upside down....
In many of his picture books, he used unique elements, like unconventional storylines and comic book panels to juxtapose moments of action alongside more quiet moments. The Snowman, for instance, is about the brief friendship had between a boy and the snowman he builds before the snowman melts. It was adapted into a hugely popular Christmas film that won an Oscar. And, in Fungus the Bogeyman, readers follow a working class bogeyman as he dutifully scares humans....
At least, that’s what I’m telling myself as I hold a flailing, hard-headed, stubborn little Aries in my arms as I read to her. She loves being read to, but is also eager for the next adventure as soon as I’ve closed the final page. Baby astrology books have had tremendous growth in the last couple of years. The bulk of these series have published post-2019, with more on the horizon....
The story revolves around Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a highly-educated Black man, who has yet to achieve commercial success for his novels. Now granted, Ellison is considered too intellectual for the masses. Ellison writes novels as treatments to critical texts from Roland Barthes and Balzac. Side note: Percival Everett himself is also quite accomplished. He graduated from Brown, became a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California, and won the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction this year....
Hello mystery fans! I happened to read two true crime memoirs back-to-back, which left me thinking about the changes that have been happening in the genre recently. It’s been nice to see some steering away from the gross fascination with the perpetrator, and the story that cares nothing for the victims, towards more nonviolent true crime and also true crime memoirs. The latter being split, at least based on my reading, into two types: the victim of the crime, or a relative, writing about their life and the crime, like Know My Name, My Midnight Years, The Red Parts, After the Eclipse; or a person unrelated to the victim and anyone involved in the crime learning about it and, for various reasons, either being changed by it or needing to solve it, like I’ll Be Gone In The Dark and The Fact Of A Body....
I’ve written before about my son who will only read comic books and graphic novels. He is nearly eleven years old now, and it has gotten harder to not fret over this quirk of his, but I have struggled through. I still believe, absolutely, that reading is reading. I have wondered, though, what book he would, eventually, cross over for. My son, who is seven, is very very close to reading, but it just hasn’t quite clicked for him yet....
