Title: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Author: Michael Chabon
Year of Publication: 2000
Genre: Fiction
Length: 656
Rating: 4/5 - Worth paying full price.
I was first clued in to the existence of “The Escapist” via a limited comic series written by Brian K. Vaughn. The story was good, but I knew I was missing something.
Then, upon a [...]

For everyone traumatized by the recent ending of another era-defining work, The Sopranos, the anti-Sopranos ending of Harry Potter will be sure to satisfy you. It ends, and it ends definitively, and in my mind satisfactorily (though I was satisfied with The Sopranos as well).
In the minds of fans, this book’s primary function is to [...]

There’s a small change of pace this week in the Librarian’s Tome section. Instead of a book review, I’ve wandered into the film section of the library (not completely of my own free will, as I still prefer books, but spouses can be persuasive) and present to you Librarian’s Tome: Film Edition.
Title: Hot Fuzz
Director: Edgar [...]

On rare occasions, work that I complete in classroom studies becomes worth recommending to others. This is one such occasion. Scott McCloud, a writer and scholar of comics, released a black and white graphic novel entitled Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art in 1993. Within the pages, McCloud guides the reader through a thorough understanding of [...]

Title: Tricked
Author: Alex Robinson
Year of Publication: 2005
Genre: Drama (graphic novel)
Length: 349 pages, large book. It’s a fairly text-heavy graphic novel.
Rating: 3/5 buy second-hand
It sounds like a commercial for the latest Thursday night drama on Global; six adults, three men and three women, pushed together into an absurd and dangerous situation as a result of seemingly [...]

Title: The Mists of Avalon
Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley
Year of Publication: 1982
Genre: Fantasy
Length: 912 pages in the soft-cover edition
Rating: 4.5/5 - Worth paying full price
Review:
There are few classic tales that can be told over and over again without boring the reader. One trick that many authors use - and I seem to gravitate towards these - [...]

Title: Thief of Time
Author: Terry Pratchett
Year of Publication: 2002
Genre: Fantasy/Fiction
Length: 384 pages in the hardcover version
Rating: 3.5/5 - Worth buying second-hand.
Review:
Thief of Time is one of the many Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. Although this one doesn’t spend all of it’s time in the “charming” city of Anhk-Morpork, part of it is there, and another [...]

Title: Son of a Witch (Sequel to previously reviewed Wicked)
Author: Gregory Maguire
Year of Publication: 2006
Genre: Fantasy/Fiction
Length: 329 pages; small font, large book, not a quick read.
Rating: 4/5 - Worth paying full price.
Review:
Warning: There are spoilers for Wicked in this review.
Son of a Witch is the sequel to the popular novel Wicked, and came out ten [...]

Title: To Say Nothing of the Dog
Year of Publication: 1998
Genre: Science-Fiction/Humour
Length: 493 pages
Rating: 4.5/5 - Worth paying full price
Review:
To Say Nothing of the Dog starts off in the 1940s, in a rather unsafe version of the 21st century’s Coventry Cathedral. There, a bunch of historians, one of which is named Ned Henry, are looking for [...]