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Boy Toy

Fantasy Collides With Reality Author: Barry Lyga Author Barry Lyga likes to push the YA envelope.  That’s a good thing.  He doesn’t write down to his audience and challenges them to push past the sometimes fluffy, comfortable boundaries of fiction written for teenagers.  He knows that they’re smarter than a lot of what’s being written for them, and can handle topics that others wouldn’t dare touch.  In Boy Toy he does exactly that, going deep into a set of circumstances that will make everyone who reads the book uncomfortable.  As they should be. Boy Toy is a novel about child [...]

2016-12-31T17:55:59-07:00August 18th, 2013|Tags: |

Fun Home

Caskets and Closets... Author:  Alison Bechdel I was a skeptic.  I didn’t really think that the graphic novel genre was capable of being anything more than a lengthy comic book, focusing on superheroes, zombies or some other fantasy.   For this reason, I’d avoided graphic books of all kinds entirely.  But then I picked up Fun Home – a graphic memoir by acclaimed cartoonist Alison Bechdel – and I realized the error of my ways. In Fun Home, the author – most famous for her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For – tells of her life in small town Pennsylvania, [...]

2016-12-31T17:56:00-07:00August 17th, 2013|Tags: |

Bonobo and the Atheist, The

Morality's Origins... Author:  Frans de Waal When Michael Jackson dangled his 9 month old baby off the fourth story balcony of a Berlin hotel in 2002 with one hand, no one had to think twice to view the act as morally obscene.  It sounds stupid to even have to say it, it’s so immediately obvious.   But how do most of us know right from wrong?  Where do the answers come from?  In the past, humankind’s moral compass has been viewed as something that separated us from the other animals.  Many cite our morality as one of the most important benefits [...]

2016-12-31T17:56:00-07:00August 17th, 2013|Tags: |
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