Nicholas Bruner
Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Young Adult Author
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What I’m Reading: Full of Beans
Beans lives in Key West, Florida, during the Depression, where every kid and adult seems to have a nickname. In fact, that’s about all they have, because the Depression has hit Key West hard, and there are no jobs or money available. The cigar-rolling… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Full of Beans”
Ranking: Logan
I’m falling behind on ranking my comic book movies! I have two I haven’t gotten to, and I haven’t even seen Ant-Man & the Wasp yet. So let’s start with the oldest one, Logan, which my son and I watched on DVD last weekend.… Continue Reading “Ranking: Logan”
What I’m Reading: Conversations of Socrates
After his execution in 400 BC, lots of Socrates’ friends and students wrote accounts of him, but the writings of only two of those authors survive today: Plato, with more than 20 dialogues “starring” his old teacher, and Xenophon, with four accounts (although Xenophon… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Conversations of Socrates”
Bleak Peanuts
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a Bleak Peanuts feature, and like the last one, this one also features Spike. This reminds me of those Garfield-without-Garfield strips that came out in book form several years ago, where we see what a sad, lonely life… Continue Reading “Bleak Peanuts”
What I’m Reading: Where They Ain’t
Where They Ain’t, by Burt Solomon, is an excellent look at baseball in the immedate pre-modern era, from 1894 to 1902. It observes this era through the lens of the Baltimore Orioles, who invented a new style of baseball that made them the most… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Where They Ain’t”
Ranking: Black Panther
Okay, I should’ve reviewed Black Panther weeks ago. I’m finally getting to it! I have previously ranked the Batman movies, the Superman movies, the other DC movies, the Avengers movies, the X-Men movies, the summer 2015 comic movies, the Spider-Man movies, the non-Marvel and non-DC comic movies, Captain America: Civil War, Dr. Strange, Guardians of… Continue Reading “Ranking: Black Panther”
Scary Movies: A Quiet Place
I’m not sure why, but for some reason my kids really wanted to see A Quiet Place, a horror movie that’s recently been in theaters. Maybe other kids at school were talking about it, I don’t know. After researching the movie a little bit, my… Continue Reading “Scary Movies: A Quiet Place”
What I’m Reading: White Trash
No, White Trash is not the latest southern Gothic pulp romance; rather, as its subtitle reads, it’s The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, a 2016 book by Nancy Isenberg. In America we have a tendency to think of ourselves as a classless society,… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: White Trash”
