I love a good zombie story. I also love a good science fiction story. Put ’em together, throw in a bicycle and what do you get? Pedal Zombies! Pedal Zombies is a collection of feminist stories that provide a unique look at the upcoming zombie apocalypse. With bicycles. It’s actually the third volume of the Bikes…
A Blood-Soaked Girl: The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly Stephanie Oakes Dial / Penguin June 9, 2015 Minnow Bly has spent twelve years in the Kevinian cult. Twelve years living away from society, twelve years of her parents blindly following everything the Prophet says. Their decisions have cost her a home, a family, and perhaps worst of all,…
Top Six Shocking Moments in iZombie
Earlier this year, The CW débuted iZombie — the latest from Veronica Mars creator, Rob Thomas. iZombie, is based on the comic series by Chris Roberson and Mike Allred and tells the story of Liv Moore, a young, aspiring doctor-turned-zombie morgue assistant. When Liv eats the brains of the bodies that come into the morgue she…
Kids Can Press Comes to Comixology
Kids Can Press, is the largest Canadian-owned children’s book publisher, with over 700 books in print. They’re the people who brought us Scaredy Squirrel, Franklin the Turtle and other international favourites. In 40 years they’ve published a wide range of picture books, non fiction and fiction for young readers, including a number of graphic novels….
Cruise to Lose: Sweet by Emmy Laybourne
Sweet Emmy Laybourne Macmillan June 2, 2015 As Emmy Laybourne herself states in the acknowledgements, Sweet is not an “issue book.” Nevertheless, it still manages to break down an important issue in our society—an issue that is particularly important for the young teens this book is being marketed towards. That issue is our obsession with…
Dogears: Korean Jane Eyre, Polish Fantasy, and Everyday Barf
Re Jane Patricia Park Pamela Dorman Books May 5, 2015 Despite the book’s problems—you know, the colonialism and portrayal of Bertha Mason—I have always loved Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. I loved how independent and even snarky she could be for a 19th century heroine. Jane’s return to brooding, jerky Rochester at the end of the…
La Chat Noir: Spider-Gwen #5
Spider-Gwen #5: Most Wanted Part 5 Jason Latour (Scripter), Robbi Rodriguez (Penciller) Rico Renzi (Colourist), Clayton Cowles (Letterer) Robbi Rodriguez (Cover Artist) Marvel Comics
Your Feelings Are Valid: A Reminder to YA Writers to Listen, Not Preach
A few weeks ago a Tumblr user, virjn (the username virjn is no longer in use) posted a few thoughts on best-selling, mega famous Young Adult author, John Green. Her original post has been shared on Twitter, Tumblr, and countless other sites but in case you haven’t see it we’ll share it here as well….
Reading Diaries: What We’re Reading this Summer
Angel: I’ve been pretty focused on upcoming books recently, and a current favourite is The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet, based off The Lizzie Bennet Diaries webseries character. I liked it much more than Lizzie’s book, which was released last year, because Lydia felt more real and like she had potential to explore beyond the…
50 Shades of Shade: #AskELJames
Earlier today E.L. James, author of the infamous Fifty Shades of Grey series, took to Twitter to promote her new book, Grey, and to answer readers’ questions using the hashtag #AskELJames. For those of you familiar with Twitter you can probably guess how this went down. Sure, there were a few genuine questions for the…
Barbie, Or How I Learned to Tell Stories
Welcome to WWAC Game Section’s summer Barbie series. These months are often the time that children are free from commitments, away from their friends, and ready to let their imaginations take over. For many of us that meant playing with Barbies, and over the next few weeks you’ll see the many different ways Barbies affected…
Game Shames Roundtable: “All Games Are Too Hard to Finish!”
Games Section writer and general excellent person Jules Low recently wrote this awesome piece about their ‘Game Shames.’ They wrote, “There’s an odd sense of guilt surrounding the idea that we can’t complete the video games we attempt, that we are somehow lesser for it.” I thought it would be interesting to see how the…
