by Kristopher | Mar 13, 2015 | Review
From Revenge of the Nerds to Mean Girls, our cinema history is filled with tales of teens who manage to find a way to overcome some perceived disadvantage to become popular. Now, Owen Matthews’ debut Young Adult book – How to Win at High School – gives readers the...
by Kristopher | Mar 11, 2015 | Review
John Kander is no stranger to musicalizing controversial topics. With Fred Ebb, he brought us Weimar Republic Germany set to music with Cabaret, the squalor of Latin American prisons as seen through the eyes of an idol-worshipping gay window dresser in Kiss of the...
by Kristopher | Mar 10, 2015 | Review
The union between noir-style crime fiction and comic books is hardly groundbreaking. After all, what is Gotham if not a crime infested inner-city setting filled with corruption? The same goes for Frank Miller’s classic Sin City. What makes The Black Hood stand out in...
by Kristopher | Mar 6, 2015 | Review
Sarie Holland is just your typical high school honor student. That is, until she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and suddenly because embroiled in a world she knows nothing about. Duane Swierczynski has taken his typical noir story-telling style and...
by Kristopher | Feb 27, 2015 | Review
Every few years there is a book that is released which immediately feels like a classic – something readers will re-visit over and over again, always discovering new things within the magical words on the page. This year, that book is My Sunshine Away by M. O....
by Kristopher | Feb 20, 2015 | Review
When Laura Lippman had Tess Monaghan give birth to her daughter Carla Scout, it seemed like the death knell for the series. After all, Tess was hardly the type to put her daughter in danger to continue her career. But then, at the end of last year’s stand-alone novel,...
