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One of my goals for the end of the year is to have reviews written for all the books I read in 2009. I’m not quite there yet, but close. When I started listing the unfinished reviews I realized there were a bunch of books I read that I just didn’t have that much to say about. Rather than making them all their own posts, I just decided to group them together into one post. Enjoy!
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Welcome to my Mini-Challenge for the Read-a-Thon! Comic books have become very popular lately, so I wanted to try and honor that with my mini-challenge. The task, should you choose to participate, is to create your own comic inspired by the Read-a-Thon!
Logistics
For the next three hours, Readers and Cheerleaders are challenged to create a comic [...]
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Title: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life
Author: Bryan Lee O’Malley
Length: 168 pages, but since it’s a comic book the whole thing took me about 30 minutes to read.
Two Sentence Summary: Unemployed, 23-year-old wannabe rockstar Scott Pilgrim has a pretty easy-going life until he runs into a hot rollerblading girl in his life and in his dreams. [...]
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It’s been a quiet week here at the blog, but that’ s because I just needed a break from blogging. I just couldn’t think of much to write about, so I figured I’d just not write anything. In place of blogging, I got a lot of other things done. I finished reading Dangerous Laughter by [...]
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It’s been a very slow reading week. I can’t seem to focus on much of anything — I’ve been trying to read Saturday by Ian McEwan, but (even though I recognize it’s a lovely book) I just can’t get into it. But I want to read. I want to read a lot, I just can’t [...]
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If there is one genre I have gotten sucked into this year, it’s comic books. I started with Watchmen, then moved on to Fables, adding Blankets and Persepolis for good measure. When I came across The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, a fictional novel set during the Golden Age of [...]
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I’ve been reading the Fables series by Bill Willingham for a couple months now. The problem I have when I try to review an issue of Fables is that it’s a series. You don’t read the volumes individually; each comic builds on the stories of the previous volume and although you could go through reviews and [...]
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Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers is the fourth comic in the Fables series by Bill Willingham. This is the longest comic so far in the series, but it tells a huge story, develops characters, and ends with a great cliffhanger.
To get caught up with Fables, you can read my previous reviews: Legends in [...]
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