Woohoo! Between-the-wars-in-England stories are my favorite kind! Plus, this is a mystery (I sometimes like mysteries), and although I read the end, I didn’t need to read the end necessarily, because the killer’s identity is known to the reader for most of the book. Lovely. Only way to do it. See, the suspense then wasn’t about who done it, but whether he would do it again! (I will just tell you – he would.) In River of Darkness, Inspector John Madden, a copper scarred by his time in the trenches in the recently-over World War I, is called in on…
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Censoring an Iranian Love Story is all about an Iranian writer who’s tired of writing books about oppression and misery in Iran, and he wants to write a love story, maybe not one with a Hollywood ending, but one that will be a true love story, and will not make its readers never want to love. However, because of the censorship in Iran, he keeps crossing out pieces of the story that would not get past the censors. The lovers, Sara and Dara, must act very chaste, never talk about political oppression, and not say or do anything that might…
11 CommentsMy graphic novel experiments continue! I checked this out because I opened it up and I liked some of the things the artist did with panels. I still do actually – there’s a page I remember, where the whole page is the character’s face, and it’s broken up into panels with dialogue across it. It’s a good effect, how the dialogue washes across the character as he’s deep in thought. Maybe it’s because I read Scott McCloud’s books, or maybe it’s because there were some rather flashy art choices (not flashy in a bad way!), but I noticed panel divisions…
2 CommentsSo when I was about thirteen, I thought these books, Sister Light, Sister Dark and White Jenna were just about the best thing in the entire world. I got them from the library after my sister gave me Dragon’s Blood for my birthday, and then I wanted to get more Jane Yolen books, and seriously, I totally loved them. My sister made me a white sweatshirt that said Jo-an-enna in black letters, and she had a black sweatshirt that said Skada in white letters, and that’s how much I loved those books. They are all about a girl called Jenna…
5 CommentsDesultory. I was going to make that my whole review. Get it? Get it? Cause that the book was desultory and so was my review, see? See what I would have done there? But then I wanted to gripe about some stuff, so I decided to expand upon the ways in which it was desultory and have a moan about them. I can do that if I want. The Rules of the Internet say so. I was anticipating enjoying Forbidden Fruit. Sex and religion in the lives of American teenagers? That is very interesting! Plus, I flipped through it and…
2 CommentsCecilia Galante is a lovely name. The Patron Saint of Butterflies is quite good too. It’s all about two girls in a religious commune, Honey and Agnes. As children they were the best ever of friends, always racing and playing and having a jolly time together, but now that they are a bit older, Honey has begun to rebel against their religious leader, while Agnes is getting ever more scrupulous about her religious observances. When Agnes’s grandmother comes to visit and discovers that the commune people (communists?) are being abused by their religious leader, she becomes determined to take Honey,…
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