Tag: graphic novel

• My 2026 Reading List: An Essay About Books

  

  Thanksgiving 2025 is nearly upon us and I can’t wait to start my cooking and baking tomorrow! But, I am equally busy trying to complete my reading goal for 2025: as of today, I’ve read 64, halfway through my 65th, and have 10 more to read to meet my annual goal for this year of…

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  November 25, 2025

  books, Essay

  Book World, book-review, books, cookbook, fiction, Goodreads, graphic novel, Kindle, Libby, mystery, NetGalley, nonfiction, reading, T/b/r, Thanksgiving, Washington Post

• Book Review: Gabby Torres is the Best Winner Ever by Angela Dominguez

  Have you ever noticed how you see or read something about an obscure hobby and then, immediately after that, this same thing keeps popping up everywhere you look? This happens to me all the time. A few years ago my husband took a sudden interest in the birds that frequented our backyard. First it was…

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  April 5, 2025

  books

  Angela Dominguez, birding, birdwatchers, book-review, books, catbird, chapter book, Christopher Emery, competitiveness, Cordelia Cupp, fiction, Gabby Torres is the Best Winner Ever, graphic novel, Inauguration Day, Knives Out, NetGalley, reading, Roaring Brook Press, The Residence, Uza Aduba, White House, White House Usher, writing

• Book Review: You’re Not a Real Dog Owner Until … by Scott Dooley and Jason Chatfield

  As much as I love reading, I am relatively new to graphic novels, comics, manga, and other illustrated works. I requested an ARC of You’re Not a Real Dog Owner Until … by Scott Dooley and Jason Chatfield to broaden my perspective on this mixed media form of literature. (It didn’t hurt that I am…

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  January 28, 2025

  books, Essay

  Andrew McMeel Publishing, book-review, books, cartoon, dog, dog owner, essays, graphic novel, Jason Chatfield, literature, manga, NetGalley, nonfiction, Puccini, reading, Scott Dooley, writer, writing, You’re Not a Real Dog Owner Until…