Jon Stewart’s departure from The Daily Show was met with the kind of trepidation that greeted Johnny Carson leaving The Tonight Show or Suzanne Sommers leaving Three’s Company. Okay, Suzanne Somers is probably a bad comparison. Perhaps it’s closer to the guy who played Mr. Kotter leaving for most of season four of Welcome Back, … Continue reading
Pantheon: The True Story of the Egyptian Deities is the hilarious and irreverent retelling of the Egyptian myth of Horus, son of Iris who vows to revenge his father’s murder. Steele has based his retelling on various versions of the Osiris myth and retold it in humorous, colorful detail. While this comic may appear crude … Continue reading
If you LOVE the works of David Sedaris, you might like this one. If you only LIKE his work, well…you may be disappointed. It is not at all what I expected. With very few exceptions, it is almost depressing! I listened to the audiobook, and even his voice (which in itself can be comical at … Continue reading
Place quirky characters in a small, rural town, add a calf born early on Christmas morning with the face of Jesus imprinted on its side and life gets more entertaining. Harley Jackson is trying to make ends meet on the surviving acres of farmland his father left him when his cow delivers the marked calf. … Continue reading
This is my very first adult graphic novel, and I must admit that much of it I enjoyed. I do not think I would regularly read graphic novels just because they really are not my thing, but I can certainly understand the appeal. Mister Wonderful is a story about a very lonely man named Marshall, who … Continue reading
Back in April of 2013, I wrote a blog on the first book in this series, The Cherry Cola Book Club. I went back and read that blog, curious to see what I had written. Apparently, I liked it. Well, not so much with the follow-up, The Reading Circle. While the small town setting and … Continue reading
Jenny Lawson is also known as The Bloggess and is the creator and writer of the award winning blog of the same name. Her book, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir), details what has made her the way she is. It starts with her childhood years, living in rural west Texas, with … Continue reading
