Fan favorite series West Coast Avengers will conclude in April with issue number ten. I’m here to help ease the sting of cancellation with suggestions for your further reading enjoyment.
My year of reading women around the world started off with a bang with my January book, Wayétu Moore’s She Would be King. Thus, I jumped into February with equal tenacity, excited to delve into yet another work that would help me explore more traditions, more cultures, just . . . more.
February’s book is Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s One Amazing Thing. This book seemed to come to me almost by some divine inspiration, as it was given to me by a close friend before I had told anyone about this project.
Officially: the snow is driving me bonkers. But on the bright side, the slippery sidewalks, icy roads and frigid temperatures have given me more than enough cause to kick back with a book series. Unfollow by Rob Williams and Mike Dowling, a long-completed Vertigo title, is the one I picked.
I didn’t buy Horrorstör for a long time because I thought it was a collection of phobias, and as someone with a phobia, that’s not my bag. But my boyfriend gave it to me as a gift on a rough day, and I’m so grateful to him.
At the end of 2018, I was dreading the thought of the new year. For whatever reason, New Year’s Eve has always been my least favorite holiday, probably because new year’s resolutions are the bane of my existence. My perfectionist self can’t handle the thought of purposefully guaranteeing that I will begin every new year with an inevitable failure.
But, at the end of 2018, beaten down by the exhausting cycle of bad news and plagued by the realization that, according to the Screentime app on my iPhone, I’d spent on average over three hours PER DAY mindlessly scrolling through the internet, I decided to commit myself at least to read something other than Twitter in 2019.
There has been a recent trend of rebooting ’80s and ’90s cartoons. A standout reboot, at least for me, is the 2017 reboot of DuckTales.
DuckTales was high on my list of after-school viewing, but even higher for my brother. He’s a big fan of Scrooge McDuck. In the run-up to the reboot there was a graphic novel origin story for Scrooge, The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, that I knew would be a great gift for him.
Reading is a far more personal, solitary hobby than, say, playing hockey or gushing over the MCU with your closest friends. Just because you’re a reader, doesn’t mean you’ll automatically devour anything handed to you over the holidays, and just because you prefer fiction over nonfiction (represent!), doesn’t mean you like all types of fiction. If you’re scrambling at the last minute to find a gift for the bookworm in your life, or if you just want to treat your shelf, take a look at our gift guide below:
As Christmas bears down upon us, the window of time we have before the shelves are picked clean of respectable gifts keeps narrowing and narrowing— which is why online shopping might be your best bet going forward (Amazon is a life-saver). Buying books will score you brownie points with the bookworms in your life, and now that comics and graphic novels are more mainstream, you might as well expand your buying horizons (either for yourself or someone else).
Between the stuttery, decade-old dinosaur I’m typing this review out on, and an impending move slated to change my whole entire life as I know it in less than two weeks, my reading time has been slashed by more than half. I haven’t gotten the chance to curl up with a book in awhile, much less browse the Kindle app I have installed on all of my personal tech, as every good bookworm does. But yesterday, I had a little bit of time to myself, and I was feeling lucky, so I bought a random ebook off Amazon: Irish Devil by Donna Fletcher, the first in a historical romance duology.
The first book co-stars the terrifyingly sexy Lord Eric of Shanekill— a bloodthirsty warrior whose reputation precedes him— and the Lady Faith— a beautiful, kind outcast with a gift for medicinal work— okay, you know what, it should actually go like this:
Friends, I picked up A Semi Definitive List of Worst Nightmares exclusively because of the incredibly long title. I buddy read it with my friend Sam (we have different paces but planned a Skype date for when we got half way through), and we both fell in love with it. It’s a beautiful and sad book, but also incredibly positive.