Disclaimer: A review copy of these books was provided by the publisher for an honest review. My Last Continent by Midge Raymond and What We Become by Arturo Pérez-Reverte are two recently released novels from Simon & Schuster, and if you skim their surface, they initially appear to be quite similar. Starting with their covers—My Last Continent…
Love Them or Hate Them?: A Love Triangles Roundtable
Whether you enjoy them or despise them, love triangles are a literary staple. It would be difficult to find a reader who hasn’t come across this trope from time to time. But despite their frequency, there can be some pretty big differences between them—how they’re constructed, the role they play in the story, and what they add…
Oh the Places We’ll Go: Books About Time Travel
This past week I discovered there was not one, not two, but three upcoming time travel television shows. NBC, ABC, and Fox have all green-lit shows the center around time travel—although all three come at it from a different angle. Fox’s Making History looks like a comedy, where three friends, from two centuries try to…
6 First Impressions of AMC’s Preacher
AMC’s television adaptation of the classic 90s Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon comic debuted this week. Preacher‘s debut drew “modest ratings” this past Sunday night and trended briefly on Twitter. Is the comic too 90s for adaptation at this point? Did the material, known for being, uh, risqué, translate well from page to screen? Six WWAC…
Four Reasons You Should Read American Housewife by Helen Ellis
American Housewife Helen Ellis Doubleday January 12 2016 In case you haven’t heard yet, May is International Short Story month and if you’re still looking for a way to celebrate let me help you out by recommending my favourite short story collection of the year (so far) – American Housewife by Helen Ellis. Whether you‘re…
Searching for Glendower: Reflecting on The Raven Cycle
In 2012 Scholastic took the Young Adult book world by storm when they published The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater, the first book in the new Raven Cycle series. It stared a young girl named Blue Sargent, who lives with her aunts, all of whom are clairvoyant, in a small town. Blue’s life may be unconventional…
Dogears: An Unscripted History of Dragons
My Unscripted Life Lauren Morrill Delacorte (Random House) October 11, 2016 Lauren Morrill is a comforting voice in YA fiction, with contemporary romances that aren’t surprising but still engaging. But My Unscripted Life is the least captivating of her books thus far—it’s a novel that elevates romance at the expense of character development and story growth….
Review: Mama Tried: Italian Cooking for the Screwed, Crude, Vegan & Tattooed
Mama Tried: Italian Cooking for the Screwed, Crude, Vegan & Tattooed Cecilia Granata (writer and illustrator) Microcosm Publishing April 12, 2016 Mama Tried: Italian Cooking for the Screwed, Crude, Vegan & Tattooed is an Italian cookbook with two twists: it’s for vegans and tattoo lovers. Filled with vegan transformations of many classic Italian dishes and…
Dogears: Strangled by Scarves
Exit, Pursued By A Bear E.K. Johnston Dutton Books for Young Readers/Penguin Random House Canada March 15, 2016 Disclaimer: A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Full disclosure: I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and talking to E.K. Johnston many times on Twitter and at events….
Avengers Academy: Everyone’s Playing It
Recently, TinyCo released MARVEL Avengers Academy, and it’s been all many phone gamers can talk about. Tea Fougner reviewed the game for us when it first came out, but after hours of gameplay our writers still had more to say. So, why is this game so addictive? Kate: So, I play my games on my…
#BatmanvSuperman: A Breakfast Cereal Civil War
After I reviewed General Mills’ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice tie-in cereals, there was much crying and moaning from WWAC staff and Twitter passersby.
Science in a Gothic Fairy Tale: Porcelain by Benjamin Read & Chris Wildgoose
I read both Porcelain: A Gothic Fairytale and its sequel Porcelain: Bone China in a single sitting. And it’s a good thing I did because had I stopped after just A Gothic Fairytale, had I told myself I’d come back to Volume 2 later on, I probably wouldn’t have felt overly motivated to follow through…