Drawing Conclusions: A Serial Reader

2014-03-17T14:02:36-04:00

We want that "paradoxical search for familiarity combined with strangeness; want more of the same – but with a difference," says Victor Watson in Reading Series Fiction. Watson's book considers series written for children, but it still applies, doesn't it? There's nothing like reading a series. Robert Kirkman's The Walking

Drawing Conclusions: A Serial Reader2014-03-17T14:02:36-04:00

Drawing Conclusions: The Walking Dead

2014-03-15T18:41:50-04:00

I first made the acquaintance of the series during my first Dewey's Read-a-Thon, when I was looking for graphic novels to entertain Mr. BIP; we've both become completely hooked. I was struck by the comments in the introduction, including this one: “This is a very character driven endeavor.

Drawing Conclusions: The Walking Dead2014-03-15T18:41:50-04:00

A Young Reader, Scarred

2014-02-27T17:05:36-05:00

Robert C. O'Brien's Z for Zachariah (1975) When my copy of Z for Zachariah came through on library loan, I was a bit disappointed: it was a relatively new paperback and the cover wasn't anywhere near as disturbing as I remember the cover of the edition that I read as

A Young Reader, Scarred2014-02-27T17:05:36-05:00
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