[…] happened and take it away from him. Apparently this happened a lot. Between that story and the words of Conan, I thought the idea of baby barbarians would be very funny. The entire book is told in a very adult voice, projecting how the brothers see themselves, not as two little kids, but as great warriors. Concept art for the […]
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OQ Winter 2024
[…] and music and birds, and these little vignette short stories about people across time and space who fall in love in supernatural ways. It’s sad and hopeful and (I hope) funny. I basically sobbed my way through writing it. Not saying you’ll sob your way through reading it, but I can’t promise you won’t. Tobias: My latest novel, A Stranger […]
OQ Spring 2024
[…] Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling, is a personal, intimate memoir in which she reveals the fun-loving family man the public never saw. As Anne recalls, “He was silly and funny. My mother used to tell me, ‘Stop laughing at him. You’re only encouraging him.’ He was a practical joker. He loved The Flintstones. He did the best gorilla impersonation […]
A Christmas to break your heart
[…] couple each giving up something cherished in an attempt to give one another a significant and meaningful gift — only to wind up weirdly missing the mark. How is that funny? It’s not. It makes you cry. They’re poor as church mice and at the end of it all, what do they have to show one another? Bupkis. Except for […]
90 YEARS . . . 90 BOOKS: The 2000s
[…] Living Legends,” Giovanni makes her home in Virginia, where she is a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech. Lisa’s Story, Tom Batiuk – 2007 Comic strips are supposed to be funny. And Tom Batiuk, creator of Funky Winkerbean, has crafted characters and stories that have kept people laughing for over 45 years. At the same time, Tom has not shied […]
90 YEARS . . . 90 BOOKS: The 1990s
[…] to books like Parliament of Whores, subtitled “A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government,” which was an international best-seller and praised by Time magazine as “a riotously funny and perceptive indictment of America’s political system.” Welcome to Dead House (Goosebumps #1), R.L. Stine, 1992 In 2011, Robert Lawrence Stine received a singular honor when the Guinness Book […]
October 2017 Newsletter
[…] The Walmart Book of the Dead. Vine Leaves Press (Melbourne, Australia) 2017. PB $9.99. The Walmart Book of the Dead was inspired by the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, funerary texts with accompanying illustrations containing spells to preserve the spirit of the deceased in the afterlife. In Lucy Biederman’s version, shoplifters, grifters, drifters, and hustlers, desirous children, greeters, would-be […]
May 2018 Newsletter
[…] School basketball team won the state championship in ‘55 the world was theirs for the taking. Thirteen years later, the ball has stopped bouncing and reality has set in. A funny, lyrical, and mournful exploration of what happens to inner-city hardwood stars when the glory days are a distant memory. Flinchbaugh, Nancy. Revelation at the Labyrinth. eLectio Publishing (Little Elm, […]
OQ Spring 2023
[…] LIBRARY ASSISTANT BOOK REVIEWS | POETRY Spring 2023 | 22 YOUNG ADULT & MIDDLE GRADE Slangerup, erik Jon. Molly and the Mac hine. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2022. Funny and fast-paced, Molly and the Machine by Erik Jon Slangerup combines friends, adventures, and a giant, little-brother-eating robot. After Molly McQuirterâs mom up and leaves for Florida, her TV-obsessed […]
OQ Fall 2018
[…] trucks. At the kitchen table my parents would trade each other the Wall Street Journal for the New York Times, while the local paper seemed to exist only for the fun– nies. I’m a native Clevelander raised out East. I never entirely understood the appeal of living here —why we did. I decided I’d find out. I didn’t have to […]