Isaiah Roby's Blog: MI Book Reviews, page 119
July 3, 2018
Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case
“From acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and gorgeous verse. In 1955, in Caroline County, Virginia, amidst segregation and prejudice, injustice and cruelty, two teenagers fell in love. Their life together broke the law, but their determination would change it. Richard and Mildred Loving were at the heart of a Supreme Court case that legalized marriage between races, and a story of the devoted couple who faced discrimination, f...
June 28, 2018
I’m the One That I Want
By Margaret Cho
“Comedian. Icon. TV star. Role model. Trash talker. Fag hag. Gypsy. Tramp. Thief. Margaret Cho displays her numerous sides in this funny, fierce, and honest memoir. As one of the country’s most visible Asian Americans, she has a unique perspective on identity and acceptance. As one of the country’s funniest and most quoted personalities, she takes no prisoners. And as a warm and wise woman who has seen the highs and lows of life, she has words of encouragement for anyone who h...
Doing It
“Sex-positive vlogger Hannah Witton covers it all in her hilarious, empowering, and approachable resources for teens.
Nobody really has sex all figured out. So Hannah Witton wrote a book full of honest, hilarious, and sometimes awkward anecdotes, confessions, and revelations for teens. Hannah talks about doing it safely. Doing it joyfully. Doing it when you’re ready. Not doing it. Basically, doing it the way you want, when you want.
Doing It works as an introduction to sex as well as a guideb...
June 23, 2018
Howards End
By E.M. Forster
“Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England. A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband’s smug English family to ruin her life. Howards End is considered by some to be Forster’s masterpiece.” (Book Description via Good Reads)
Published: 1910
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Read and Reviewed: June 2018
Admittedly, I was curious about Howards End because there was a big promotio...
June 21, 2018
Injustice: Gods Among Us – Year One
“Collects issues #1 through 36, which marks the end of “Year One”.
From the makers of Mortal Kombat comes the critically acclaimed prequel comic to the smash hit fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us!
Things in the DC Universe have changed after Superman is tricked into destroying the one thing he loves the most. Now unwilling to let crime go unpunished, the heroes of our world must choose if they are with Superman or against him. But not every country will submit to his new world order and...
June 20, 2018
Aesop Lake
By Sarah Ward
“Seventeen-year-old Leda Keogh is present when her boyfriend, David, commits a hate crime against a gay couple at the town reservoir on a warm May night. When David threatens to narc on her mother’s drug dealing if Leda confesses to what she’s seen, Leda tries to escape the consequences, by taking a summer job out of town.
Jonathan Eales is one of the victims. When he and his boyfriend, Ricky, are caught skinny dipping by two high school thugs, Jonathan manages to swim out of r...
June 19, 2018
Skin & Earth HC
“The full collection of Lights’ masterwork is here! Based on Lights album of the same name, Skin&Earth is a story of a girl looking for hope in a hopeless world. Caught between romance and cults, gods and mortals, and just trying to find a good borscht, Enaia Jin is lead down a dark path by new lovers that reveals a twisted fantasy world and her own true nature. Set in a post-apocalyptic future ruled by the Tempest Corporation, the adventurous tale of loneliness, deceit and self-discovery tha...
June 15, 2018
The Fragile Ordinary (Isaiah’s Review)
“I am Comet Caldwell.
And I sort of, kind of, absolutely hate my name.
People expect extraordinary things from a girl named Comet. That she’ll be effortlessly cool and light up a room the way a comet blazes across the sky.
But from the shyness that makes her book-character friends more appealing than real people to the parents whose indifference hurts more than an open wound, Comet has never wanted to be the center of attention. She can’t wait to graduate from her high school in Edinburgh, Sc...
A Tragic Kind of Wonderful
By Eric Lindstrom
“For sixteen-year-old Mel Hannigan, bipolar disorder makes life unpredictable. Her latest struggle is balancing her growing feelings in a new relationship with her instinct to keep everyone at arm’s length. And when a former friend confronts Mel with the truth about the way their relationship ended, deeply buried secrets threaten to come out and upend her shaky equilibrium.
As the walls of Mel’s compartmentalized world crumble, she fears the worst—that her friends will aband...
June 14, 2018
Three Ring Circus
“This classic gay pulp novel from the 1970’s features the tried and true formula of star-crossed lovers from the wrong side of the tracks set in the unique world of traveling circus performers.
Mike is the sheltered son of an old-world trapeze family traveling the US with the Prince Royal Circus. Roustabout Jerry is a rootless orphan, one of the faceless behind-the-scenes crew who put up and break down tents and attractions as the show moves from town to town. One is a star, the other has not...
