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  Sentient by TKO Presents is a quick read graphic novel trade (issues 1-6) clocking in at 166 pages + bonus art. It is a single shot story line. Earth is on a rapid decline, with only 10 years of sustainable life remaining. Interstellar colonies are established enough to start sending families on the voyage. Unfortunately, human separatists looking to start clean with no carryover Earth government are raising hell. Sentient is the story of one separatist who murders the crew of her ship, leaving a dozen children under the care of an AI mother who has all safety protocols disabled. Fast but phenomenal read!

  Started reading Jean Shepherd’s ‘A Christmas Story’. Planning to finish it in the morning when my eyes are less angry at me. This book pulls from several of his bestselling collections, and was officially published well after his 1999 death. Starts with the protagonist reminiscing while eating lunch in an automat and seeing a woman advocating to disarm the toy industry. Shepherd REALLY has a way with words..

  Okay. This was awesome.. not every book you find at the dollarstore (dollartree) is a winner, but this one was. As YA teenlit goes, it was worth every penny of the full price $8.99USD.. but I spent a buck and aquarter. Heather Swains ‘Josie Griffin is NOT a Vampire’ was purchased because of the title; it just sang and caught my attention. As such, I had no Idea what it was about, I just threw my money at the cashier and moved on. On starting the book it seemed entirely reasonable to me when Josie was sentenced to an anger management class after smashing her lying and cheating ex-boyfriends car windshield with a baseball bat. I knew there would be a twist with the class and was not disappointed. When Josie went to class she isn’t sure if she was in the right place; she wasn’t paying much attention, and it was raining, and her case workers handwriting sucked. The class she joined was filled with were folk, vampires, gods, faeries… all of which were paying for their own teen aged an...

  Bought this boxed set of ‘The Last Kids On Earth’ for my elder spawn last year with a surprisingly low level of interest on reciept. Yesterday however, I told him I was looking for a new book and we should read one together. He thought it was a good idea and we could read this series and compare it against the TV show. I am up for the ‘challenge’. Finished book one today and it was surprisingly fun. Orphan ‘Jack’ is left behind in the apocalypse and struggles to fight off monsters and make new friends with other survivors. Jack also is dedicated to finding and saving his elementary school crush. The book has absolutely no info about what caused the monster and zombie aocalypse. It does have a lot of humor, and a mixed media of paragraph chapter books with interapersed comics that contain actual plot interactions.. As the book progressed, the number of pages increased and the drawings decreased.. I wonder if kids even notice. Highlights of the book- 1- A monster pet named Rover wa...

Well, that was depressing.. and enlightening.. and depressing. Reading Corey Feldman’s Coreyography was an strange ride. Textually it was well put together and easy to read. Thematically, this was dark, glossing over huge stretches of time and focusing heavily on people getting wrecked and their lives just falling apart. It was interesting to get insight into the pervasive ways that the film industry operates. Coreyography plays out as an almost double memoir, written by Feldman, but focusing in a large amoint on his friend and cohort Corey Haim. Half the movies I watched as a kid were filmed by coked out kids who hated their lives, wanted to commit (or tried to) suicide, and were molested., raped, or unknowingly supporting the molestation/rape culture.. Not sure what else to say.. Worth picking this one up, but keep the purell handy cause parts feel pretty dirty. I am kind of worried now to read another book on my TBR - ‘I Want More’ which is the memoir of the child actor who played V...

  Meh, but not great.. And yet I might read a sequel? Finished Rune Skelley’s “Miss Brandymoon’s Device” Started reading sometime at the beginning of summer. I feel a little duped to be honest. It was interesting enough to finish, but hit points where it was easy to peel away and nearly shelve it. It was kind of a garbage fire. The beginning contained kinda interesting story telling and interesting characters, who were then interrupted and diminished a fair amount by cult and alien nonsense.. I enjoyed the writing style of the first half pretty evenly, then shit went sideways with a massive leap of plot with no warning or foreshadowing. Biggest issue and the likely reason readers should avoid this novel… a VERY problematic commodification of a woman, her body parts, her memory and conciousness. The female lead for the story was strong and quickly devolved to a plot tool that two dudes tug o warred over very grossly.. I would consider reading book 2 because this novel did have some ...

  All the Tommys in the World.. I had high hopes for this book, but in my disappointment, I cannot muster a descriptor beyond ‘Meh…’ We started off on a good note with some unusual characters, setting, and approach to sentient/semi-sentient zombification that I had never seen before. Then the cancer kids came into the picture with their annoying banter and complete disregard for allowing the story to be feasible. Not long after, the book takes an unexplained leap of several years into the future… From this point forward (approx halfway) the book becomes a vaguely intelligible mess. The story becomes convoluted with zero recognizable value or presented reason for inclusion. The mess just gets messier all the way to the final page. Readers get no resolutions. I would avoid this book .