Isaiah Roby's Blog: MI Book Reviews, page 146
July 2, 2015
Not So Butch
“An illustrated true tale of a queer femme looking for love in all the wrong places.”
My roommate is super into zines and has become obsessed with them due to a past relationship he had. This is one of the few zines he has let me read that didn’t make me want to claw my own eyes out from how pretentious it was (not all zines are pretentious, most aren’t, just the ones he likes).
It was a quick read, less than five minutes, but it is one I would come back to again and again. It was a very qui...
June 30, 2015
Love in Vein II
“A second helping of blood and passion …
Acclaimed dark fantasist Poppy Z. Brite’s previous excursion into the nightmare realm of terrifying sensuality offered readers a sumptuous blood feast of unspeakable pleasures. Now she has done it again, serving up more provocative tales from some of the most inventive and accomplished writers in the field — an unabashed exploration of shadow places and terrible hungers that’s more dangerously seductive, more boldly erotic than the first.”
This book i...
June 23, 2015
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Part 1
“The Legend of Zelda is a high-fantasy adventure based on the wildly successful and long-running video game series by game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. In February 2000, Shogakukan began publication of manga artist Akira Himekawa’s adaptation of nine of the most well known Nintendo games in the series. Each story follows the adventures of Link, the hero of the video game series, as he battles the forces of evil to save the Sacred Realm.”
I have played this game, but not for long. I have never...
June 16, 2015
The Hounds of Hell and Other SM Stories
“Larry Townsend has been writing kinky stories for decades, and “The Hounds Of Hell” is one of his many collections. The key factor in this book is that Townsend has created settings for each story to different historical locales and then allowed his kinky imagination to roam the period. Populating “The Hounds Of Hell” are Egyptian Princes.”
So I found this one at a therapist office in their free book pile. I only stopped in because I knew they were giving away books. I thought this one woul...
June 9, 2015
Ashes, Ashes
“Epidemics, floods, droughts — for sixteen-year-old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, taking 99% of the population with it. As the weather continues to rage out of control, and Sweepers clean the streets of plague victims, Lucy survives alone in the wilds of Central Park. But when she’s rescued from a pack of vicious dogs by a mysterious boy named Aidan, she reluctantly realizes she can’t continue on her own. She joins his band of survivors, yet a new danger awaits her: the Sweepers a...
June 2, 2015
Coming Home
“Tallis Carrington ruled Rock Bay with his gang of jocks and an iron fist—until a scandal destroyed his family’s name. Ten years later Tallis is dead broke, newly homeless, and on the walk of shame to end all walks of shame. He needs money and needs it fast, and Rock Bay is the only home he knows. But the people of Rock Bay haven’t forgotten him—or the spoiled brat he used to be.
The only person in town willing to overlook his past is Lex, the new coffee shop owner, who offers Tally a job eve...
May 26, 2015
Plain Truth
“From critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult comes the engrossing tale of a murder that sends shockwaves through Pennsylvania Amish country. Eighteen-year-old, unwed Katie Fisher is accused of birthing and then smothering her baby at the family dairy farm. But not only does Katie claim her innocence, she also says she didn’t even bear the child. Enter high-profile Philly lawyer Ellie Hathaway, who may be Katie’s only hope.”
Jodi Picoult is literally the only wri...
May 21, 2015
Drawings of a Lunatic #1
I can’t seem to find this one online. It was a zine that my roommate found somewhere in Berkeley in his travels. I am not even sure who it is by, though I would want to meet them so I could really see the mind behind this one. This is like the lower class version of Hothead Paisan. I am in love with Marna, the main character in this one. She is an aging anarchist.
Like Hothead, she is loud and proud. Unlike Hothead, she is able to survive without maiming people. She is not violent, instead it...
May 19, 2015
The Fault in Our Stars
“Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.”
This book was given to me by a good friend after she went to a publishing convention. I am very thankful that she thought of me at all, but I didn’t even think about reading the b...
May 14, 2015
Blue Blue Blues
“Blue Blue Blues. Sonic the hedgehog writes a fucked up memoir, drunk. short, “weird,” cut wrong. new. LITTLE”
Weird is an understatement in this one. It is really small and cute, but then from the very beginning everything is not cute. It is like a neurotic Christmas tale that is not actually about Christmas. I had no idea what was going on at any point. Thankfully this was not a full book or I would not have finished it. The length was perfect. It gave enough to be weird, but not long enou...
