reviews

Blind Justice Author: Mark Waid In recovery from the gritty 90s version of The Ultimates, my husband recommended Daredevil as a better introduction to the world of superhero comics. I’d long seen him curled up of a night around a Daredevil story and the vibrant cover art was at least appealing. Admittedly, I haven’t watched the Netflix series (his favorite) nor am I in any previous way familiar with the character. But why not give it a try? Surely there must be something in comics for so many people to love them, even collect them, and The Ultimates was a small representation of a vast genre. Plus, [...]

In the Beginning. . .  Author: C.S. Lewis I’ve long been hearing about the excellence of C.S. Lewis and have indulged myself in multiple religious and allegorical texts penned by him, from The Screwtape Letters to The Problem of Pain and more. The Chronicles of Narnia, however, have sat gathering dust in one of my many bowed shelves. I’ve grown up hearing references to the beneficent lion, Aslan, who represents Christ in a world where animals talk and a dangerous witch roams abroad. Finally curious to see what all the talk was about, I picked up the series and determined to start at [...]

Bawdy and Brutal: Not What You Expect Author: Geoffrey Chaucer Once again, engaging on a classics kick, I come full circle and return to Chaucer. I encountered his works, largely in snippets of “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” in various college literary courses, and while the language was just as difficult as it was beautiful, I didn’t have a true sense for the master of verse or, I realize now, The Canterbury Tales themselves. Bouncing everywhere from bawdy to downright badgering (i.e. “The Parson’s Tale,”) this partial collection of 24 short stories, which was intended be a large tome with four stories per pilgrim (there being [...]