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I listened to this as an audiobook, and highly recommend that you do as well. Tina Fey has a lovely reading voice and the book includes the audio of her first SNL skit as Sarah Palin opposite Amy Poehler as Hilary Clinton. I was expecting this book to be more of an autobiography than it turned out to be. A better description would be "Set of humorous anecdotes in roughly chronological order". For example, she tells the story of her rather disastrous honeymoon but includes no mention of how she met or married her husband (who is referred to by at least 4 or 5 different names over the course of one chapter "for copyright reasons"). Very enjoyable all the way through.
This long picture book is enjoyable but very strange. The overall story is of a young girl in a mountain kingdom who loves the youngest prince, asks a witch for help winning his love, is kidnapped by a giant and eventually has a happy ending. But the author, Elizabeth Enright (1906-1968) made the interesting decision to invent new names for the flora and fauna of the kingdom all of which begin with the letter T. So we have timtiks, tiptods, timbertocks and timaroons wandering about between characters all named Tagador, Tataspan, Tamin, Taskin and Tackatan. It's hard to keep them all straight, but the bright and luminous illustrations kept me reading to the end.
A wild, hilarious, awkward, painful, honest comic about the pop culture soaked daydreams of a single horny 20-something obsessed with Justin Beiber. It's bizarre, beautifully draw, extremely non-PC and I'd highly recommend it :D
A favorite from my childhood. Didn't hit me quite as hard when I re-read it as a teen. Prefect for age 7 or 8 years old though!
I read this whole book in one sitting. Sexy fantasy that totally sucks you in. Dreamy and beautifully drawn.
This is one of those delightful children's books where you can stare at any one page for a good 15 or 20 minutes and keep discovering new things- puns, visual jokes, hidden characters, bats, rats, cats or spiders. With a quick rhyming text this book describes a day in the life of a witch from Spelling School to Flying Practice to a Halloween Extravaganza. Very silly and very charming.
This series is fantastic. The first book pitted Wiz and her blustering mage-partner Mug against a necromancer in a fast-paced game of basketball. This second book starts a little slower, with some backstory about how Wiz was discovered by the mage organization. But before the end her and Mug are competing in another magical sports competition- beach volleyball against a set of sea-god champions. Sam Bosma also works as an artist on the show Steven Universe, and the art in this book shares a very similar aesthetic.
This book was fantastic. Cory Doctorow, with his usual wit and humor, explains how we arrived with the current copyrights laws, how they do and do not help project creators, and how the entertainment industry is trying to exploit them. This is not just an issue for content creators and distributors: this is an issue for everyone who uses the internet, period. Because the way that copyright is or is not enforced, where and how much, effects our rights of privacy, free speech, fair use and honest control of our own devices. This book is massively important, and better yet, it is highly readable. By turns dramatic, terrifying, funny and uplifting, I would recommend it to everyone.