Review: Eat, and Love Yourself by Sweeney Boo

Title: Eat, and Love Yourself Author: Sweeney Boo Genre: Graphic Novel Publisher: BOOM! Box Date published: April 21st 2020 Page Count: 160 Rating: 5/5 A story about Mindy, a woman living with an eating disorder who has to learn how to love herself again. In pursuit of the perfect body, Mindy buys the low-fat diet…

Review: Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker

Title: Mooncakes Author: Suzanne Walker, Wendy Xu (Artist) Genre: Graphic Novel, LGTBQ Publisher: Lion Forge Date published: October 15th, 2019 Format: Paperback Page Count: 256 Rating: 4/5 A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft. Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers' bookshop, where she helps them…

Review: The Tea Dragon Festival by Katie O’Neill

Title: The Tea Dragon Festival Author: Katie O'Neill Genre: Graphic Novel, Fantasy Publisher: Oni Press Date published: September 17, 2019 Format: Paperback Page Count: 347 Rating: 4/5 Rinn has grown up with the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real dragon turns out to be a different matter entirely! Aedhan is a young…

Review: Albert Einstein: The Poetry of Real by Marwan Kahil

Title: Albert Einstein: The Poetry of Real Author: Marwan Kahil, Manuel Garcia Iglesias (Illustrations) Genre: Graphic Novel, Biography Publisher: NBM Publishing Date published: August 15th 2019 Format: Paperback Page Count: 128 Rating: 4/5 A father offered his son, a five-year-old Albert Einstein, a compass that triggered an irrepressible need to understand the laws of the universe…

Top Ten Tuesday #4 | Favourite Webtoons

WEBTOONS : an animated cartoon or series of comic strips published online. I've been literally dying to post this. So for those who don't know what webtoons are, they're cartoons on the internet (Web-toons get it?). So it's a platform with many series to read, and the authors update every week and sometimes more. The topics…

Review: Pride and Prejudice by Stacy King

Title: Pride and Prejudice Author: Stacy King, Po Tse, Jane Austen Type: Graphic Novel Genre: Classics Publisher: Udon Entertainment Date published: August 19, 2014 Format: Digital Page Count: 377 Source: ARC via Netgalley Rating: 4/5 First, I'd like to say that Pride and Prejudice is one of my (probably my only) favourite classics. So when I saw this manga, I didn't hesitate to pick…

Review: Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green

Title: Lighter Than My Shadow Author: Katie Green Type: Graphic Novel Genre: Young Adult, Memoir Publisher: Diamond Book Distributors Date published: October 3, 2017 Format: Digital Page Count: 515 Source: ARC via Netgalley Rating: 4/5 Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She'd sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toast in her…

Review: Emma by Stacy King

Title: Emma Author: Stacy King, Po Tse, Jane Austen Type: Graphic Novel Genre: Classics Publisher: Udon Entertainment Date published:  May 12, 2015 Format: Digital Page Count: 308 Source: ARC via Netgalley Rating: 4/5 Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more…

Review: Jane Eyre by Stacy King

Title: Jane Eyre Author: Stacy King, SunNeko Lee, Crystal Chan Type: Graphic Novel Genre: Classics Publisher: Udon Entertainment Date published: November 15, 2016 Format: Paperback Page Count: 319 Source: ARC via Netgalley Rating: 3.5/5 As an orphaned child, Jane Eyre is first cruelly abused by her aunt, then cast out and sent to a charity school. Though she…

Review: How to Be Perfectly Unhappy by The Oatmeal

Title: How to Be Perfectly Unhappy Author: Matthew Inman aka The Oatmeal Type: Graphic Novel Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Datepublished: October 31, 2017 Format: Digital PageCount: 48 Source: ARC via Netgalley Rating: 5/5 Matthew Inman—Eisner Award-winning creator of The Oatmeal and #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Tell If Your Cat Is…