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My Ideal Librarian: A Review of Bug Boys

September 25, 2018

Bug Boys: Volume 1 Laura Knetzger Czap Books 2015 Critics often ask ourselves how we can approach a review with as little bias as possible. Can you truly be unbiased about a piece that hits on themes related to your own identity? Regardless of how your views fall, I’ll warn you now: this is an ...

Comics, Reviews

Jem and the Holograms – Infinite: Colourful Caper through Parallel Worlds

February 9, 2018

Jem and the Holograms: Infinite Kelly Thompson (Writer), Stacey Lee, Jenn St-Onge (Artists), Jen Hickman (Artist and Letters), Sarah Stern, M. Victoria Robado (Letters and Colours), Shawn Lee (Letters), Brittany Peer (Colours) IDW Publishing 13 February, 2018 Jem and the Holograms and the ...

Comics, Reviews

The Woods Falls Flat On QTPOC Representation

December 8, 2017

The Woods Volumes 1-8 James Tynion IV (writer), Michael Dialynas (artist), Josan Gonzalez (colorist), Ed Dukeshire (letterer) Boom! Studios When I read the first couple volumes of The Woods last year, I felt that the series had promise. James Tynion IV offered up a plot and world that were ...

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Teaching Diverse Lit: Cinderella meets New Beijing

October 17, 2017

We are fully immersed in the era of adaptations. Fiction fans need not wait more than a week to hear that a favorite novel or comic will soon to make its way to the big or small screen. Old television shows and movies are earning reboots left and right. Stories are getting second and third ...

Essays, Opinion

The REadWind: Mary Anne Saves The Day

August 8, 2017

The REadWind series gets contributors to re-read the books they haven’t read in years and self-reflect. The goal is to explore how the contributors’ growth as a person plays a role in their experience in revisiting the book. Do they still like/hate it? How has it changed? Why? Growing up, my ...

Essays

The REadWind: Alanna: The First Adventure

July 11, 2017

The REadWind series gets contributors to re-read the books they haven’t read in years and self-reflect. The goal is to explore how the contributors’ growth as a person plays a role in their experience in revisiting the book. Do they still like/hate it? How has it changed? Why? We ask the ...

Reviews

Lois Lane Thrills In Triple Threat

July 4, 2017

Lois Lane: Triple Threat Gwenda Bond Switch Press May 2017 In many cultures three is a magic number but in my experience, however, the number three can be a bit of a curse for book and movie sequels. The first iteration of a story is good, maybe even groundbreaking, and sets expectations that ...

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Friendship, Fate and First Love in When Dimple Met Rishi

June 27, 2017

When Dimple Met Rishi Sandhya Menon Simon Pulse May 2017

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Two Great Minds: A Joint Review of Defy The Stars

June 20, 2017

Defy The Stars Claudia Gray Little, Brown Books for Young Readers April 4th 2017 There’s nothing quite like falling headlong into an author’s entire catalogue. I should know. I’m deep in a Claudia Gray haze these days, and I’m still not sure how that happened. Scratch that. I picked up Lost ...

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Tiffany D. Jackson’s Allegedly is Definitely a Great Read

January 28, 2017

Allegedly Tiffany D. Jackson Katherine Tegen Books January 24th, 2017 I read the synopsis to Allegedly a few months ago and by the time I got around to reading it a few days ago, I barely remembered what it was about. There was a crime. That part was evident in the title, but the rest was a ...

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My Ideal Librarian: A Review of Bug Boys

Jem and the Holograms – Infinite: Colourful Caper through Parallel Worlds

The Woods Falls Flat On QTPOC Representation

Teaching Diverse Lit: Cinderella meets New Beijing

The REadWind: Mary Anne Saves The Day

The REadWind: Alanna: The First Adventure

Lois Lane Thrills In Triple Threat

Friendship, Fate and First Love in When Dimple Met Rishi

Two Great Minds: A Joint Review of Defy The Stars

Tiffany D. Jackson’s Allegedly is Definitely a Great Read

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