I looked up the top article there and…the books are Wicked, Nineteen Minutes and The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. Wicked might not be fine for younger kids, Nineteen Minutes should be essential reading and I don’t know the last one well enough.
January 7, 2026 at 10:35 AM
I looked up the top article there and…the books are Wicked, Nineteen Minutes and The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. Wicked might not be fine for younger kids, Nineteen Minutes should be essential reading and I don’t know the last one well enough.
I’m thinking that outside of the MCU and other properties, comics haven’t really shaken the idea of being For Children and Lesser Than. Also I’m going to hazard a guess that parents still think HS kids should still be reading Mockingbird, Gatsby and Austen and little else.
January 6, 2026 at 9:49 PM
I’m thinking that outside of the MCU and other properties, comics haven’t really shaken the idea of being For Children and Lesser Than. Also I’m going to hazard a guess that parents still think HS kids should still be reading Mockingbird, Gatsby and Austen and little else.
Gotta love that Star WARS with a REBELLION against an EMPIRE that took over from a REPUBLIC isn’t political. I mean, even if you just don’t pay attention to the title, the first line of the preamble says “It is a period of CIVIL WAR.”
December 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Gotta love that Star WARS with a REBELLION against an EMPIRE that took over from a REPUBLIC isn’t political. I mean, even if you just don’t pay attention to the title, the first line of the preamble says “It is a period of CIVIL WAR.”
(The book is originally titled “Das doppelte Lottchen” and is nowhere near as comedic as any of the movies. There is one prank pulled and it is hilarious)
December 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
(The book is originally titled “Das doppelte Lottchen” and is nowhere near as comedic as any of the movies. There is one prank pulled and it is hilarious)
My grandfather used to complain about exactly this (he passed before the current nostalgia wave). He enjoyed Star Wars, but couldn’t understand why we’d need a remake of, say, The Parent Trap.
You could argue that TPT was based on a book, but it has more in common with the old movie.
December 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM
My grandfather used to complain about exactly this (he passed before the current nostalgia wave). He enjoyed Star Wars, but couldn’t understand why we’d need a remake of, say, The Parent Trap.
You could argue that TPT was based on a book, but it has more in common with the old movie.
So we have a factory reset for Mr Data, Captain Nemo is a Soviet-era Lithuanian and Ross from Friends is a robot in a SF remake of “A Mom For Christmas”?
December 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So we have a factory reset for Mr Data, Captain Nemo is a Soviet-era Lithuanian and Ross from Friends is a robot in a SF remake of “A Mom For Christmas”?