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jessplummer

jessplummer

Joined May 2016

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Daredevil | Charles Soule
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Mehso-so

I'm not particularly enjoying this run, which is kind of blandly grim with some deeply uncomfortable Yellow Peril elements, but the one bright spot is Blindspot. Give him a solo series, Marvel!

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Lois Lane: Fallout | Gwenda Bond
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This is the best Lois Lane - and one of the best Clark Kents - I've ever read, and a fun little mystery besides. I love this series.

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Daring Adventures of Supergirl Vol. 1 | Paul Kupperberg, Joey Cavalieri
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I'm not a fan of Bronze Age comics in general - too much talky melodrama without the zany pacing of the Silver Age or cleaner pacing of the Modern Age - but Infantino's art is gorgeous and Kara is eons less whiny than most male heroes of the Bronze Age. Unsurprisingly.

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Dukes Prefer Blondes | Loretta Chase
Mehso-so

I usually love Loretta Chase but I was disappointed in this one. The hero was basically a relentless asshole to everyone the whole way through, including the heroine, and whined about every good thing that happened to him.

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True Pretenses | Rose Lerner
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A Jewish hero in a historical romance! I've never encountered that before and I loved it.

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Mehso-so

Honestly, I could barely follow this book, it was so convoluted, and I disliked so many of the characters that it hardly seemed worth the effort. I know so many people who love it but I'm not one of them.

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Off Campus | Amy Jo Cousins
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I liked the characters in this a lot, though everyone's dismissal of Tom's very real trauma frustrated me. It felt like he made all the concessions and Reese made none, and I prefer romances where it feels like both characters are growing together.

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Mehso-so

Mostly I will remember this book for the guy on the subway who started reading it over my shoulder and then ATTEMPTING TO EXPLAIN IT TO ME. But the history was fine, I guess.

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I put off reading this book for a while because I was afraid it couldn't possibly be as beautiful and heartbreaking as the first in the series, but luckily I was totally wrong.

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Think of England | KJ Charles
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You know how you hear a book being hyped so much you assume it can't possibly live up to it? Not the case here. I loved this book.

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The Gentleman's Keeper | Bonnie Dee, Summer Devon
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There is a tragic and mischievous urchin child in this m/m romance and that is all I need to love a book, really.

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Mehso-so

I found the prose of this a little exhausting. I guess that's how narrative non-fiction goes but I wanted her to calm down and just tell me the history already.

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The Star-Touched Queen | Roshani Chokshi
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Gorgeous and lyrical. The imagery in this book is exquisite.

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Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow
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Finally got around to reading this! Though I don't know that I would automatically have thought "hip hop musical" upon reading, it's a pretty entertaining and incredibly thorough piece of scholarship. Warning: it WILL get the songs stuck in your head.

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Annnd another volume of Waid's Daredevil. What will I do when I don't have these to reread anymore?

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Y'all know how I feel about this series by now. TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR THIS WORLD.

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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 | Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
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It took me TWO YEARS to read this incredibly dense 1300 page history of New York, and that's with it only going through the consolidation of Greater New York in 1898. #NOREGRETS I am just that big of an NYC history nerd, I guess.

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A companion to the C&H exhibit at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum - a new interview with Watterson & a thematically curated handful of strips. Not mandatory reading if you've already got all the C&H books, but a nice little addition.

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Man, you guys know I love this comic, do I even need to say anything here?

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Red: A History of the Redhead | Jacky Colliss Harvey
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Interesting enough, but this redhead was a bit uncomfortable with the emphasis on redheads as a persecuted group. I'm sure it's worse in Harvey's native UK but from an American perspective tying Black Lives Matter to teasing gingers is a problematic leap at best.

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A thematic history and analysis of movie musicals. I basically want to yell every line of this book at everyone I meet. It's brilliant & hilarious & so eloquent about what makes musicals unique & wonderful that it brought tears to my eyes on more than one occasion. Definitely Musicals 201, though!

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Trapped on Treasure Island | Floyd Gottfredson
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The 2nd volume of Mickey Mouse strips from Fantagraphics, covering 1932-33. They're absolutely gorgeous, and Gottfredson is a master of building up momentum, both with danger and with humor. The commentary handwaves the 1930s racism more than I'm comfortable with, though.

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Mehso-so

Adorable baker Craig meets commitment-phobic playboy Alex, sparks fly, etc. Everything about this book, which is basically a coffee shop AU of a fandom that may or may not exist, is very cute, but I found the lack of real conflict frustrating.

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Better Nate Than Ever | Tim Federle
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13-year-old theater kid Nate Foster runs away from his tiny Pennsylvania town to NYC to audition for ET: The Musical. Hilarious and so, so sweet. I just wanted to give Nate a hug and tickets to every show in town.