Manga Madness: Sailor Moon [Guest Post]
My First Anime I still remember the first anime I ever saw. I was nine years old and had just turned on the television to watch some cartoons before school. […]
Monthly Archives: March 2014
The Cover Wars: New and Upcoming I
Janet: She’s anorexic. I’m not impressed. Unless that’s what the story’s about. In which case it is acceptable. Yash: This looks interesting. Despite the real person being pictured on the […]
This One Summer
Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It’s their getaway, their refuge. Rosie’s friend Windy is always there, too, like the […]
Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! It is rare that any book reduces me to incoherent fangirl-ishness, but Rachel Hartman’s Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming does, most thoroughly, and I had to get that out of […]
All The Things She Read: Graphic Novels (Nafiza Version)
So last week Stephie regaled you with short reviews of the graphic novels she has read and I thought that I would do the same thing today. Short reviews that […]
Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Things On My Bookish Bucket List
Yash: I would like to meet J. K. Rowling some day and then demand the script for a BBC Marauders TV show. I would like to also meet Terry Pratchett, […]
Kazu Kibuishi: Amulet and Other Works
I am pleased to present Kazu Kibuishi! The first works by Kazu that I read were the Amulet series recommended to me by a librarian friend of mine. I have to say, […]
The Cover Wars: That One Item
Janet: Is anyone else reminded of woven cloth? Anyway, colour scheme, feather quill, readable font – I’d read the back. Yash: Wow. Okay. That is a ridiculously pretty cover. The […]
The Legend of Bold Riley
Leia Weathington’s sword-and-sorcery epic The Legend of Bold Riley is illustrated by Leia and a host of talented artists. “Who is Bold Riley?” you might ask. She has hunted the wildest game […]
Zita the Spacegirl
Thank you very much to the librarians of the Education Library at UBC (the Nevile Scarfe Building) who last year chose the theme of comics and graphic novels for one […]
The Book Wars 