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05Jun
Book Review: Insurgent, by Veronica Roth
Insurgent By Veronica Roth $10.79 Not too long after I bought this book on the day it was released, I came across the book on my dining room table at bedtime. I was heroically letting my daughter read the book first, so I brought it upstairs for her. “Did you know you left Insurgent downstairs?” I said. I wanted her to finish it so that I could read it! “Yes,” she replied, alarmed, something almost like hysteria in her tone,”I can’t have that book in my room at bed time! And neither should you!” She had a point. When I read the first book in the series, Divergent, I ended up staying up far too late and not getting enough sleep before work. I took the book back downstairs. This book was worth the wait. It opens with Tris dealing with a bit of PTSD due to the events at
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29May
Summer of Science!
Recently, I wrote on my personal blog about all of the things I am trying to do to keep my kids from watching television for 10 hours a day over the summer. There will be books and writing and physical fitness, but I am really looking forward to our science goal: we will be conducting weekly science experiments/projects as a family. I told the kids that I would start by choosing a few activities, but I hope that they will choose some as we go on with the summer. I told a good friend about our goals, and she picked up the latest issue of Wired Magazine for me, with Adam Savage on the cover, and I am so glad she did. While I could wish they called the article ”How to Be a Geek Parent,” there are many great projects in there, from building an artbot to cooking up glow worms to
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23May
Fantasy Fiction Has Real World Applications!
Did you see this amazing story about the boy who survived a plunge over the edge of a waterfall because of advice he got from Pendragon, by D.J. MacHale? In the water, the teen quickly thought of advice from a fantasy-novel character Bobby Pendragon of the Pendragon Adventure books by D.J. MacHale: “Go feet first, stay to the sides and kick off the rocks,” the Seattle Times reported. He managed to scramble onto a narrow rock shelf just before the main falls. The whole story is amazing, complete with a video of the rescue, go check it out. What strikes me about the whole situation is his presence of mind, but also the way he was able to cope with real life danger based on what he read in a fantasy book for kids. Whoever said teens don’t gain anything from dangerous fiction?
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22May
Amigurumi!
Crocheting is my latest obsession, and one thing that has really caught my eye on Pinterest, craft blogs and the wider internet is amigurumi. Have you seen this stuff? It is so cute, and the potential for geeky fun is enormous! For instance, check out Nerdigurumi (on youtube, too!). Also, just look at how much Star Wars Amigurumi you can buy on Etsy! This free Yoda Amigurumi pattern is pretty awesome, too. I have been resisting taking the plunge into amigurumi myself, because I have so many other projects already in progress. However, this weekend I couldn’t wait any longer, and I had to buy Crobots by Nelly Pailloux. I am so glad I did! The little stuffed toys are so cute, from an adorable dogbot to a hilarious zombiebot to an awesome ninja. My 9 year old son is so enamored of the entire concept that he asked me
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11May
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Graphic Novel Due in November
DC will be releasing a graphic novel based on the popular Steig Larsson novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in November of this year. The book will be written by Denise Mina, a Scottish author who has written multiple novels, a couple of plays, and contributed to the Hellblazer comic series in addition to journalism and academic writing. Frankly, I am glad to have seen this news if only for the introduction to Mina; I am not sure how I missed her work before this. She writes the kind of modern British mysteries I have been getting into lately, a modern, more disturbing extension of the Agatha Christies I grew up loving. The entire project is international–the artists, Leonardo Manco and Andrea Mutti, are from Argentina and Italy, respectively. Manco has worked as a regular artist for the Hellblazer comic series, including the stories written by Mina, and he has also
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06May
Rockstar Games releases Max Payne 3 comic series
Rockstar Games has announced that they are releasing a comic book series for Max Payne 3. Rockstar teamed up with Marvel to release the series. The first chapter can be downloaded as a pdf here. Note that the comic is for adults and should not be read by kids. Max Payne 3 is a mature rated game. After the Fall, will shed light on Max’s life highlighting key events from Max Payne and Max Payne 2. The comic will be available for free and There are details here on how you can try to get a limited printed edition of the comic. The limited editions will be given away to Rockstar Games Social Club members starting now through June 2012. I have to admit, I don’t think I have played the Max Payne series, maybe a little of it here and there, but the comic showed me a look at
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04Apr
Review – Heart #4
Publisher: Image Release Date: March 18, 2012 Writer: Blair Butler Artist: Kevin Mellon Price: $2.99 Age range: Mature (violence and profanity) When last we saw Oren, he had just gotten the crap beat out of him. In the final issue of the series, we find out how having his clock thoroughly and completely cleaned effects him and how or if he gets back on his feet again. This entire series has been a wonderful character study from start to finish. The fact that the study was on a character that probably isn’t the first choice for many to fill the role of protagonist. Oren was pretty much a royal jerkface the entire series, his jerkiness growing with every MMA match he won. But with a title like “Heart”, I kept expecting him to show a little in some form or another. So while the route Butler takes with Oren at the
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04Apr
DC Entertainment Announces New Batman Graphic Novel
DC Entertainment has announced a new graphic novel that’s taking an original spin on the world of Batman by focusing on the famed city of Gotham itself. BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN is set to explore the “sinister truth behind the destruction of Gotham’s most iconic historical landmarks” by building up a mystery around the city’s architecture and design. A collaboration between four-time Eisner award winning writer Chip Kidd and critically acclaimed artist Dave Taylor (BATMAN: SHADOW OF THE BAT, BATMAN & SUPERMAN: WORLD’S FINEST), BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN promises to be a unique take on the Batman mythology by setting the story during the period of an expansive construction boom that will combine both the visual and thematic elements of works like Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead and Elia Kazan’s The Waterfront. The combination of Kidd’s idiomatic take on the iconic hero and the visual realization of that
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03Apr
Oni Press announcements include Penny Arcade collection
Oni Press started this week with a few announcements coming off of Emerald City Comic Con. Penny Arcade will be teaming up with Oni Press for Magical Kids in Danger. Magical Kids in Danger will be a collection of every Penny Arcade comic from 2007. “I’ve been a fan of Penny Arcade’s irreverent take on gaming culture for a long time,” George Rohac, operations director of Oni Press, added. “We always read their comics in the office, and for several years, our company has been exhibiting at PAX, the gaming festival the Jerry and Mike organize with their business partners. I’ve always felt the two endeavors were simpatico. The same people who read Penny Arcade and play video games are likely to dig Scott Pilgrim and The Sixth Gun, and vice versa.” Penny Arcade Vol 8: Magical Kids in Danger will be released on August 29,2012 for $14.99. Speaking of
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03Apr
Book Review – Bunny in the Moon: The Art of Tara McPherson Vol. III
Writer and Artist: Tara McPherson Publication Date: March 14, 2012 Format: Full Color, 112 pages, Hardcover, 8 1/2″ x 11″ Price: $23.99 Genre: Art Book Bunny in the Moon is Tara McPherson’s latest art book, available from Dark Horse. Featuring new works and sculpture, McPherson explores love, loss, strength, vulnerability and female empowerment through a combination of mythology and folklore with a modern senseiblity creating 112 pages of imagery that makes me think of the nightmare version of CandyLand. As an aspiring artist, I’m fascinated with “Art of” books because they’re usually either a peek behind the creation process of the way a movie/game ends up looking or it’s a nice collection of a particular artist’s work. I had a peripheral knowledge of McPherson’s work before reviewing this book, so I had an idea of what to expect visual-wise. What I wasn’t expecting was to have about two-thrids of the
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