A Grown-Up Table diversion into comics… Y is over. (Well, it’s been over for awhile, but I wait for the trade paperback compilations of the issues, and I just recently picked up the last one.) It’s one of the first series I fell in love with, and the end did not disappoint — [...]
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Y: The Last Man, by Brian K. Vaughan & Pia Guerra
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
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Madapple, by Christina Meldrum
July 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
This ARC* randomly found its way into my life, and I picked it from my “haven’t read yet” shelf to take on a recent camping trip to Acadia National Park because it takes place in Maine, and I’m a sucker for reading a book while surrounded by its setting. The plot: Aslaug was raised [...]
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Brown Girl in the Ring, by Nalo Hopkinson
May 22nd, 2008 · 9 Comments
Grown-up book! I picked this one up because the back reads, and I quote, “The rich and the privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways — farming, barter, herb lore.” Near-future SF and self-sufficient urban community? [...]
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Grown-up Table: The Abstinence Teacher, Tom Perrotta
April 14th, 2008 · No Comments
In a recent post I set myself a challenge to read one grown-up book for every 2 or 3 YA books I read this year, to give myself the same chance at a literary lens for adulthood that I had for childhood/adolescence.
For my first meal at the grown-up table, I picked The Abstinence Teacher, by [...]
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