The Addams family has held a special place in pop culture for over sixty years now. The crazy, kooky family has starred in various TV shows, cartoons, and movies. The latest take on the family is Wednesday on Netflix. The show focuses on the titular character as she deals with a new school, new friends, and a murderous monster in the
Read MoreIn Volatile Memory, Seth Haddon gives us a love story that questions everything about love. Wylla is a trans woman in a society that doesn’t accept her. She isn’t even sure she can love herself, let alone anyone else. Then she meets Sable. Sable is a lesbian in a society that doesn’t value her either. The two find each other, and
Read MoreMany of us believe in the famous “men in black”, mysterious government agents that deal with things beyond the scope of normal life. In Royal Gambit, author Daniel O’Malley introduces us to the British version of the men in black, the Checquy. But in a further twist, the Checquy doesn’t just handle X-files, its agents are pulled from those very cases!
Read MoreWe all know the story of 101 Dalmatians and how Cruella De Vil wanted to make a fashionable coat out of the skins of Dalmatian puppies. She’s the embodiment of evil, with her desire to exploit the most vulnerable of creatures for nothing more than a vain whim. But why? Why does she have such hatred for these tiny little puppies?
Read MoreEvil is eternal. It has existed since the beginning, and it will persist until the end. Such a formidable enemy requires an equally daunting hero to oppose it. That is where Gilad Anni-Padda comes in. For millennia, this ancient warrior has stood between humanity and the monsters that would destroy it. But now he’s forgotten himself. His past was torn away
Read MoreGrace Lin uses Chinese folklore as the basis for a wonderful children’s story about duty, responsibility, and fate that young readers will love. The Gate, The Girl, and The Dragon tells the story of Jin, a stone lion who resents his duty to humanity. Then he gets stuck in the human world. As he tries to find a way back home,
Read MoreDeep in the Catskill Mountains there is a place that protects those that need shelter. The ruins of the Neves sits waiting for women who need to get away, need to hide, need to heal. Talia has never known life beyond the magic boundaries of the Neves. Then one day disaster strikes. Men show up, they rip her and her mother
Read MoreCome to Innsmouth, a little port town just down the coast from Arkham. Dr. Stella Addison is looking for help investigating tales of a pirate shipwreck off the shores of this odd little town. You saw her ad in the paper and the job seems perfect for you. Sure, there are some odd stories about the town, but for the chance
Read MoreThanks to the wonderfully successful movie Wicked that premiered last November (not to mention the long-running Broadway musical Wicked that the movie was based on) I think it’s safe to say that the world knows about Gregory Maguire’s take on The Wizard of Oz. Wicked looked at the life of Elphaba, AKA the Wicked Witch of the West. We learned about
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