Yes. Daredevil is on Netflix. And it’s a great show. But Daredevil, like so many other great characters, was in print before he was on film. The graphic novels, comic books, and other incarnations, has been around for over 50 years. The thing is, the character, created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett for Marvel,… View more
The fifth and final book in the Percy Jackson series was, as you might imagine, an adventure of mythical proportions. It begins with Percy and Co. waging yet another battle against Luke/Kronos, one that ends in a stalemate sending Percy into the depths of the ocean. Being the son of Poseidon and all, this is… View more
The sequel to The Emerald Atlas picks up nine months later with Kate, Michael, and Emma back in their rather disagreeable Baltimore orphanage where Dr. Pym leaves them after mysteriously leaving on Christmas Eve. When monsters interrupt the uppity orphanage director’s party, the trio make their hasty exit through time and space. Or rather, Michael… View more
The Hunter is another great standalone thriller by John Lescroart. One of Lescroart’s dynamic, recurring characters, San Francisco private investigator Wyatt Hunt, stars in a very private story about family and identity. The Hunter begins with Hunt receiving a cryptic text about the biological parents who abandoned him: “How did ur mother die?” We quickly… View more
Since a nifty trailer for the long awaited movie, The Hunger Games, just went viral, I thought it was time I found out what all the fuss was about. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is the first of the bestselling Hunger Games trilogy for young adults. It begins like nearly every post-apocalyptic novel. The… View more
Lee Child’s The Affair, the 16ththriller in the bestselling Jack Reacher series, finally delivers the origins of the idealistic (and lethal) Reacher persona. When the series started in 1997 with The Killing Floor, the hero was already a former Army M.P. At last, we find out why he had to leave the Army. The first… View more
Join Bruce Campbell in this zany adventure also starring Ossie Davis. Bruce Campbell stars as an aging Elvis, yep, he didn’t really die, in a retirement community where the residents seem to be dying off at a much higher rate. Sensing something is amiss, Elvis goes to see his fellow resident and buddy Jack, who… View more
So why on Earth would I recommend Troll 2? Because it’s widely considered to be one of the worst films ever made, it’s even the subject of the documentary Best Worst Movie (which the library also owns). Most of the crew, including the director and screenwriter, were Italian and spoke very little English. The actors… View more
Ignore the cover, this is one of the most entertaining books I’ve read in a long time! It’s an intricate, unpredictable, exciting fantasy adventure novel following master thief Locke Lamora and his gang of thieves, the Gentleman Bastards. Locke Lamora is an infamous thief in the metropolis his gang operates out of, relying on great… View more
John Sandford’s latest entry in the Prey series brings back Lucas Davenport and all the characters we’ve grown to love: Del, Marcy, Weather and Letty, Shrake and Jenkins. It’s a terrific suspense novel. Two plastic-wrapped bodies are unearthed at a construction site, and Davenport has to see for himself. He is certain these are the… View more