Posts tagged graphic novel

in Books on 08.Dec.12 08.Dec.12 by Jodi Chromey

Sad Trombone Ending

Glory Fleming is a seventeen-year-old piano prodigy living with her widower father in the Bronx. Frank is the hunky, artistic boy next door, a recent arrival from Argentina. When the two meet things start to…

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in Books on 02.Sep.12 01.Sep.12 by Jodi Chromey

Level Up

Recently I had the extreme misfortune of reading two fabulous books back to back (Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl and Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles) and I’ve been in a crappy, cranky reading slump…

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in Books on 01.Sep.12 01.Sep.12 by Jodi Chromey

Jane says

I’m going go right ahead and put Jane Beckles right up on a pedestal next to Ramona Flowers & Zero Hopeless-Savage. These pedestals are reserved for kickass, young, female characters from graphic novels. After I…

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in Books on 19.Aug.12 18.Aug.12 by Jodi Chromey

More WTF than I can handle

There’s a reason I don’t often read actual issues of comicbooks, especially of the superhero genre. Reading comicbooks you have to have a high-tolerance for ambiguity. You seems to spend a lot of pages wondering…

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in Books on 27.Jun.12 27.Jun.12 by Jodi Chromey

Ruined by Holden Caufieldization

Sometimes I get tired of the Holden Caufieldization of young adult literature. Why does the protagonist always have to be a friendless misfit? A lot of times the main character is friendless because they like…

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in Books on 30.May.12 30.May.12 with 2 Comments by Jodi Chromey

Such a disappointment

I usually have a strict 100-page rule for books. If after 100 pages I don’t care, am dissatisfied, or bored by the book I chuck it aside and move on. I didn’t do that with…

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