Book Review: Murder on the Red River by Marcie R. Rendon Renee “Cash” Blackbear hasn’t seen her mother or brother since the accident when her mother drunkenly put their car in the ditch. Bundled into the foster care system for over a decade, Cash doesn’t even know if they’re still alive. An adult (just barely) in the eyes of the world, Cash… Continue reading Book Review: Murder on the Red River
Open Thread: Top Posts of 2018
Open Thread: Top Posts of 2018 Another year has ended, so let’s look at what you, the readers, have decided to click on! Top Ten Overall Posts of 2018 Book Review: The Financial Expert Book Review: The Black Tulip Book Review: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Book Review: The Sea-Wolf Book Review: Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror Book Review: Peter… Continue reading Open Thread: Top Posts of 2018
Comic Book Review: Kaijumax Season Two: The Seamy Underbelly
Comic Book Review: Kaijumax Season Two: The Seamy Underbelly by Zander Cannon Note: This review contains spoilers for the previous volume, and you may want to read the review for that one first. After last season’s explosive ending, Electrogor and Green Humongo have managed to escape the title prison. Electrogor’s anxious to get to the cave where he left his children, but they need… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Kaijumax Season Two: The Seamy Underbelly
Book Review: The Book Thief
Book Review: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Gravedigger’s Handbook is the first book Liesel steals. She’s illiterate at the time, but her brother’s just been buried, and the book one of the gravediggers dropped looks important. And it will be important, as Liesel learns to read from that book. It would be tough enough to lose a brother at Liesel’s young… Continue reading Book Review: The Book Thief
Book Review: King Solomon’s Mines and Other Adventure Classics
Book Review: King Solomon’s Mines and Other Adventure Classics compiled by Sterling Publishing Company This is another bulky compilation of public domain stories, concentrating this time on tales of adventure and derring-do in exotic locations. Indeed, the book is broken into sections by terrain–desert, jungle, South Seas islands, and other scenes unfamiliar to their readers. There’s twenty-five stories in total, but let’s begin with those… Continue reading Book Review: King Solomon’s Mines and Other Adventure Classics
Manga Review: Descending Stories Volume 1
Manga Review: Descending Stories Volume 1 by Haruko Kumota Rakugo is a traditional Japanese form of storytelling in which a single performer sits on a stage and tells a comedic or sentimental story with only a fan and small cloth for props and never moving from the seiza position. It has its roots in sermons preached… Continue reading Manga Review: Descending Stories Volume 1
Comic Book Review: Chicagoland Detective Agency No. 2: The Maltese Mummy
Comic Book Review: Chicagoland Detective Agency No. 2: The Maltese Mummy written by Trina Robbins with art by Tyler Page Things have been slow lately for Bradley, hyperintelligent canine head of the Chicagoland Detective Agency and his two friends, computer whiz Raf and poet Megan. In fact, they haven’t had a case since the one… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Chicagoland Detective Agency No. 2: The Maltese Mummy
Manga Review: Weekly Shonen Jump (2018)
Manga Review: Weekly Shonen Jump (2018) by various Here we are at another anniversary for SKJAM! Reviews, and thus my annual review of the state of Shonen Jump. This may, however, be the last in this format–more on that anon. A quick recap for those who haven’t been here before: Shounen Jump Weekly is the top-selling manga anthology in… Continue reading Manga Review: Weekly Shonen Jump (2018)
Comic Book Review: Bone Sharps, Cowboys and Thunder Lizards
Comic Book Review: Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards by Jim Ottaviani & Big Time Attic It is the Gilded Age, a time of prosperity for some, and the advancement of knowledge. Science is making great steps forward, but so is entrepreneurship, seeking any way to make a fast buck. Professor O.C. Marsh, a paleontologist, and… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Bone Sharps, Cowboys and Thunder Lizards
Manga Review: Vinland Saga Book Nine
Manga Review: Vinland Saga Book Nine by Makoto Yukimura Warning: This review will have SPOILERS for previous volumes of the series; you may want to read earlier reviews first. Previously: Thorfinn Thorsson and his ragtag band are taking a load of narwhal horns to Greece, where they hope to sell them to get funding for… Continue reading Manga Review: Vinland Saga Book Nine