Note: This is the rehearsal script edition. A definitive collectors' edition will be released at a later date. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child joins Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight in the category of “ostensibly canon series continuations that I shall henceforth pretend do not exist.” The play begins with an abbreviated version of the Deathly Hallows epilogue. … [Read more...] about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two by J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne
Children's Fiction
The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes
From the back cover: Banished! Old Witch likes nothing better than to fly about on her broomstick crying "Heh-heh!" and casting abracadabras, but now she has been sent away... by two young girls. Amy and Clarissa love to tell stories about Old Witch... until one day they decide she is just too mean and wicked. Drawing a rickety old house upon a barren glass hill, the … [Read more...] about The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes
Nancy Drew: The New Case Files, Vols. 1-2
By Stefan Petrucha, Sarah Kinney, and Sho Murase | Published by Papercutz You might wonder why I read a couple of Nancy Drew graphic novels, but when I tell you that these volumes comprise parts one and two of an arc called “Vampire Slayer,” perhaps you will understand. It was the unlikely union of Nancy Drew and Buffy—and yes, said show is specifically referenced in the … [Read more...] about Nancy Drew: The New Case Files, Vols. 1-2
43 Old Cemetery Road, Books 1-3 by Karen and M. Sarah Klise
43 Old Cemetery Road is a quirky illustrated series for children that tells its ghostly story using letters, newspaper clippings, drawings, et cetera. There are three books in the series so far—Dying to Meet You (2009), Over My Dead Body (2009), and Till Death Do Us Bark (2011)—with a fourth (The Phantom of the Post Office) due in May 2012. Dying to Meet You What with the … [Read more...] about 43 Old Cemetery Road, Books 1-3 by Karen and M. Sarah Klise
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
From the back cover: Meet Dwight, a sixth-grade oddball. Dwight does a lot of weird things, like wearing the same t-shirt for a month or telling people to call him "Captain Dwight." This is embarrassing, particularly for Tommy, who sits with him at lunch every day. But Dwight does one cool thing. He makes origami. One day he makes an origami finger puppet of Yoda. And … [Read more...] about The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger