Whiteout by Greg Rucka, Steve Lieber

[rating=4] Why read ‘Whiteout’, you ask? Well… maybe you’re thinking: it’s winter, it’s cold, I’m miserable. Maybe you want to read a comic set in a place where the weather’s even WORSE than where you are. Make yourself feel better. Good idea. You have options. You could truck across the futuristic Siberia of Enrico Marini […]

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

[rating=1] I found ‘The Elegance of the Hedgehog’ painful to read, and would have abandoned it after 30 pages had it not been our February book club pick. Overwrought is the first word that comes to mind. Woefully, ponderously academic; ‘Elegance’ is less a work of literature than it is a series of diary entries […]