I love Superman. My love affair with the superhero began in 1993, with the Dean Cain/Teri Hatcher vehicle, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Look at him. Can you blame me? My adolescent heart was smitten. This was probably the spark that ignited my nerdy fire. I learned […]
In the course of judging a book by its cover, it would be easy to feel sorry for Shane Burcaw. His withered muscles, caused by spinal muscular atrophy, just look sad. The fact of his utter dependence upon his family and friends for everything – including maneuvering his junk in […]
Even though this book is titled The Secret History of Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman is a relatively small part of the story, which stretches from the suffrage movement in the early 20th century through the character’s resurgence in the 1970s. William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman’s creator, was an odd duck, […]
The first thing to note about this book is that it is set in 1970, on the cusp of the Disability Rights Movement, when words like “crippled” and “retarded” were thrown around with abandon. It is now, of course, the 21st century, and these words have rightfully gone the way […]
This post contains affiliate links. I’ve been told I read too much. Mostly by people who don’t read enough or at all, as far as I can tell. Maybe it’s true. I have been known to find more pleasure in the pages of a book, to feel the sting of […]
This post contains affiliate links. “This story is for all the slightly broken people out there.” ~ Patrick Rothfuss, June 2014 The above is excerpted from the author’s endnote of The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss, and aptly sums up this neat novella. If you aren’t familiar […]
This post contains affiliate links. I knew I would read Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? the second I learned its title. That pretty well sums up my middle and high school experiences, except for the fact that everyone was hanging out without me, and I didn’t have a cool […]