Ah, there, much better. I'm getting more into it now!

Aw man, things are really starting to get reeeaaaaal! Also, this comic went about a different way as each chapter is a different guest artist who tells the story of a different character at this pivotal moment off the comic's story. I missed the original artists, because i really love the comic's style, but you get a little bit of a fresh view of the characters this way.

Ah! Yes! This is the type of comic I've been wanting to read! Nothing silly, no stupid plot devices, something more real and moving. This manga delivers as we see from the viewpoint of a school bully what drives him to bully others, especially a new classmate who is a deaf girl.

A very cute book for kids (and chicken-loving adult librarians). A simple read for ages as young as 7 or 8, but I feel it's mostly intended for kids just learning to keep chickens. It has some great information about types of chickens and how to care for them, all wrapped up in a cute story. Sophie has just moved onto her great Uncle Jim's farm from L.A. with her busy mother and clueless father. Then she encounters the first of many unusual chickens her great uncle used to raise. And these chickens are even more strange than your average chicken! But never having raised a chicken before, Sophie takes all this in stride, writing letters to a local farm, asking for tips and advice. But a neighbor seems to want to steal these special chickens, so Sophie has to deal with that too.

All of it is told in the form of letters from Sophie to the poultry farm (whose responses are quite strange), her deceased great uncle, and also her deceased grandmother. Sophie has a very unusual, but casual, view on death, but she believes that while her relatives are dead, they still watch over her and listen. I thought that was pretty neat. Also, this books is great for kids who have just moved (Sophie moved from the big city to farm country) and also she is Hispanic, and she makes mention a couple times how she's used to people thinking she's Mexican or hired farm help.

Anyway, a GREAT book for chicken fans (like me), cute characters, and a fun little story.

I really do love Spiderman and Deadpool antics. This was a really great volume!

Ack, a literal cliff hanger!

Ah! The perfect book for me to read right now as I await my trip to Japan right after Halloween! Nice how the POV is the ghost, and definitely kept my interest. NOW I can read book two, as I had accidentally started with that and was kinda confused for a while.
Oh yeah! I was also going to add that this book was a very good teen readalike for Dexter! With the main character being a vengeful ghost and all, it felt a lot like Dexter (if Dexter was a vengeful, Japanese, ghost) what with killing child murderers.

So I read this book in one day. I want to say because it was super good, but the writing was a bit juvenile. I suppose that was author's intention though, since this book IS made up of a teen's, online diary entries. So no points off for that. It was definitely suspenseful, and an easy read, so I flew right through it. And it had a WONDERFULLY horrible part that will stick with me forever about spiders. Many points for that! But then I got to the end. The last two or three chapters just BOMBED. So, if you read this book and don't mind stopping three chapters before the end, this book stays awesome. If you just HAVE to complete it you risk being disappointed like me.

Spoiler

So, the last few chapters felt slapped on to me, what with Paige being the one posessed the whole time. I feel like the "clues" were just inserted willy nilly into the book with her scratching Raph in his sleep, I guess the spiders were a sign(?), and her poorly-written therapist character telling her she needs focus on herself, not her brother, and always being sensitive to the buzzing noise? But the native Elder and Monty Verano (I'm going to get back to the author as a character) also felt the buzzing but they weren't "possessed". So yeah, I'm just suddenly supposed to accept that she's been possessed this whole time? I just feel these "clues" were slapped on, while the book has been building up a really great haunted house feel. It didn't need the possession aspect, keep it as a house that is haunted by the forgotten spirit of (forget the girl's name, Alicia?). The atmosphere of the story was doing so well! Leave it vague. Leave it with feelings of unease, and building masses of spiders, and fining secret, hidden floors that was the tomb of a imprisoned child. You don't need to kill off two characters within a couple of paragraphs with no other build up. Someday, when I write my own spoopy book... *shakes fist*

Oh yeah, the character of Monty Verano. Are we supposed to believe that this character is the author of this book? That he compiled her diary entries into a book? Or was that just an author insert? Am confused.