Hench reminded me a lot of the Amazon Prime TV show, The Boys, where the world is inhabited by people who have superpowers and for the most part, they’re managed like celebrities or sports stars and generally save the day from bad guys. The main difference is that there are supervillains in this world.
Tag: fiction
First Book Club Book – Meg & Jo
As part of a book club with friends, I read Meg & Jo, a modern retelling of Little Women, despite not having read Little Women and only seeing the most recent movie adaptation.
Fire & Blood & basically everything you’ve wanted to know about the Targaryens except the important stuff
So this was technically the last book I read in 2018, so I felt compelled to talk about it and seeing how the last Game of Thrones season is coming up, talk a little bit about how it’s all going down.
Times are a-changin’: Merci Suárez Changes Gears
I read this as part of reading Lucky Broken Girl for my children’s services class. Our teacher says a children’s librarian should be able to recommend 3,000+ starting out, and while I might be able to recommend 3,000 books for kids from birth to high school, I don’t know about 3,000 books for just elementary school kids. Again, part of the problem is that I tend to read older kids books and this time is no exception. But I still read it and I still very much enjoyed it.
Children’s Services Class – Week 2
Continuing in my library master’s degree program, I decided to take the children’s literature and services class. It’s like my YA class, except we’re focusing more on elementary school kids. Our first book assignment is to read an award-winning book that’s not a Caldecott or Newbery award.
Week – 15 Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Holy cow, fifteen weeks of reading one book a week and I’m about pooped out. I’m also itching to read something not YA for once. But the end is in sight and next semester, hopefully, I can take my time with books instead of speed reading through them. Until then, I decided to read Seafire.
Week 14 – Zombies, Vampires, Non-humans
For my next YA class book, we had to read a book about zombies, vampires or any other non-human species and I chose Dread Nation. The basic plot is Civil War but what if zombies? This was such an interesting take on historical fiction and you might think combining the two genres (historical fiction and fantasy/dystopian) might not work but you’d be wrong with this one.
Week 13 – Graphic Novels
For my YA class, we decided to skip Week 12, which was going to be poetry, short stories, or a play/screenplay, and I had an awesome lined up. Instead, we had an online discussion board about The Hate U Give, which is fine but I was really looking forward to my play (kind of) that…
Week 11 – LGBTQ+ Issues
For Week eleven, we had to read a book about LGBTQ+ issues and this was kind of my first LGBTQ+ book. I read We Are Okay and the narrator was in the middle of discovering her own sexual identity but in What If It’s Us the two boys know they are gay and are out,…
Week 9 – Morris Award Books
For my ninth week of class (I can’t believe it’s been nine weeks already!), we had to read a Morris Award book, which is given out to first time authors writing for teens. My book for this week was The Story of Owen by E. K. Johnston, who I’m pretty sure has written other things…
The Drunk Quill 