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UnderworldAmusements
Outbursts of Everett True | J. W. Raper, A. D. Condo
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The one-and-only Everett True puts a “food crank“ in his place.

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AudiobookingWithLeah
New Challengers | Scott Snyder, Aaron Gillespie
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I created an A-Z challenge that includes everything you could want in an A-Z challenge. This includes titles, authors, characters, items (on the covers), and a scavenger prompt.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/f958009c-40f5-456a-aef4-4156b6a...

If you have a Canva account, I also made a template to add all your books. That link will be in the comments because it's super long.

use #atozchallenge if you join and let me know

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Andrea313
Accidents and Old Lace and Other Stories | Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels
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My husband has been wanting the Graham Ingles "Artist's Edition" from IDW for awhile. When he told me about it months ago, he casually added, "It's an oversized book". Cue my extreme shock on picking this thing up for his Christmas gift- where was I supposed to hide it?! Anyway, I managed to keep it under wraps through today, and here he is finally enjoying his prize. Oversized indeed! ?

willaful LOL! Be careful that doesn't eat him!

I ordered a garden decoration from my sister's wishlist that turned out to be enormous and her birthday isn't til March! I think I'm going to have to give it to her early, because I have no place to store it.
1mo
Amiable Wow! 😮 1mo
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UnderworldAmusements
Outbursts of Everett True | J. W. Raper, A. D. Condo
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Soscha
Where Monsters Lie | Kyle Starks
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Pickpick

This reminded me of “Someone‘s Killing the Children” & the Serial Killer convention in “Sandman”

Picture a town of evil clowns with a blowtorch, murderous puppet boyfriends, “Jigsaw” but less committed, koala-hat-wearing garden fanatic & someone who goes by the Fckmaster.

Lotsa dead law enforcement, some Byzantine kills, an evil granny since we all have one.

This may be a one-off Dark Horse series. Sad if so. I‘d keep following the storyline.

dabbe 😱 3mo
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WeAreLegion
Lost Soldiers | Ales Kot
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Panpan

Terrible.
I grew up watching ultra macho war movies, especially those set in Vietnam, so I am not against the genre. But this book tries to sell you the old tale of ‘war is hell‘ plus revenge today for a crime in the past. But the reveal of what the retribution is for, left me hollow inside. Once revealed, the heavily misogynistic themes of the story are understood to be the framework of the entire book, and not a villain to be rejected.

WeAreLegion I should not have used the word ‘misogynistic‘ (as there are no female characters in the book) to define the incident that spawns the revenge central to this story. Instead, I should have said: this narrative is way too simplistic and heavy handed to appropriately engage the conversation about the incident itself. It requires a much more nuanced and mature story. Here, it is reduced to a ‘maguffin‘, used only to move the narrative forward. 3mo
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Robotswithpersonality
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Grateful to a Tumblr post for giving me enough nostalgia to seek out a Calvin &Hobbes collection from my local library. I gather this is a two book set sold in a single case when not part of a library collection, but for my purposes it was two books chock full of marvelous comics. There's something to be said for multiple strip - what I guess would have been multiple day in newspapers - story lines. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/3 I like that while Calvin can be a pest, basically nobody lets him get away with it for long. The sheer volume of original imagination that Watterson channels through this kid. Hobbes is a treasure and Susie is necessary balance. The parents don\'t feel like bland stereotypes inserted just to be irritated either - reading these as an adult probably had me paying more attention to their POV.😏 4mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/3 Hilarious and cheeky and then sweet and touching, verging into profound before veering into ridiculous. I think I\'ll have to see how many other collections my library has, because this was such a lovely experience.
⚠️ animal death
4mo
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SincerelyWinona
SFSX (Safe Sex) #1 | Tina Horn
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My #PortlandBookWeek book haul! 📚

wanderinglynn Super fun! 6mo
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xicanti
Defenders Epic Collection: The New Defenders | J.M. DeMatteis, Ann Nocenti, Peter Gillis, Marie Severin
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As of this morning, I‘ve officially read every X-Men comic on Marvel Unlimited, again! (I did it six years ago, too.) Took me almost a full year to catch up on the older titles they‘ve digitized since my last subscription ended and the newer ones my library never bought.

I‘ve still got a couple weeks left on my current discounted subscription, so I‘m gonna dig into this non-X-book that‘s still half former X-Men. It‘s a lot of fun so far.

TobeyTheScavengerMonk 💛🖤 Cannonball 5mo
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limada
Archie: Modern Classics Vol. 2 | Archie Superstars
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Just a little fun, back in my childhood. Quick read but still enjoyable. #39-2024