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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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There are a couple of other book bloggers also reading the Fables series right now, and I’m just a little bit behind them, having only read Fables I: Legends in Exile and Fables II: Animal Farm. After I read the reviews by Book Zombie and Fyrefly, I don’t quite know what to say in mine [...]
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Before I get to my review of Fables: Animal Farm, I need to write a short rant. If you don’t want to read it, skip the next four paragraphs to get to the review I’m posting this review while at work (something I never do) because my internet at home is disconnected. You see, last [...]
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Fall Into Reading 2008 is an annual challenge hosted by Callapidder Days. The only thing you need to do to participate is make a list of the books you want ot read this fall and post them in your blog. To win prizes and stuff, the reading list of your choosing needs to be posted [...]
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After reading and reviewing Blankets by Craig Thompson, I got started thinking about the differences between the genres of memoir and autobiography. I was discussing Blankets as a memoir, but a lot of the other things I’ve read call it an “autobiographical graphic novel.” Both genres have really similar qualities, but I wondered if there [...]
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Trying to review Blankets by Craig Thompson makes me want to go back, again, on my opinions about the use of “graphic novel” versus “comic book.” It almost seems irreverent to call Craig Thompson’s book a “comic book” because it has everything a good memoir has, just written in comic book form. Blankets is Thompson’s [...]
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This weeks Weekly Geek challenge (courtesy of Dewey at The Hidden Side of a Leaf) is to get caught up on book reviews with help from other bloggers. Here are the instructions from Dewy: 1. In your blog, list any books you’ve read but haven’t reviewed yet. If you’re all caught up on reviews, maybe [...]
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Fables: Legends in Exile is the first comic in the Fables series by Bill Willingham. I thought this comic was a great summer read, and I recommend it to anyone who likes revisionist fairy tales or intelligently-written comics. The premise of the series is that characters from familiar fairy tales and stories have been forced [...]
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