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I was a big fan of the TV show Webster. Emmanuel Lewis plays a young African-American boy who is adopted by an ex-NFL lineman and his socialite wife. Webster is ridiculously cute and funny, and the script-writers take advantage of his looks and innocence. I remember getting to know him in the first season and... Continue Reading →
A book that has me running straight to my high school science-teacher colleagues. The Mars Challenge is the perfect graphic novel to integrate into any high school curriculum or to enrich the life of a young person interested in STEM. But I in no way want to narrow the audience for this book. I loved... Continue Reading →
The more I review books, the more I'm intrigued by the genre of the novella. It's no easy task to fit in all the elements needed to move a story forward. I hesitate to compare it to a the genre of the sonnet, but when an author is restricted to under 200 pages it can... Continue Reading →
113... Is that a lucky number??? Because that's the number of chapters in Milazzo's quickly plotted superhero thrill-ride, The Faith Machine. Short and action-packed, they hit you hard and fast... and give the book a hair-trigger tone. Just read a couple lines from the last paragraphs of some of the early chapters: "Oh yes. People... Continue Reading →
Princess Diana is approaching her most important birthday... at 16 she will receive some of her most famous accessories, but also an opportunity to see the outside world for what it really is. On this day she hears the cries of refugees stuck on boats off the coast of Themyscira. With her cuffs and her... Continue Reading →
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