Art's subjective. And my subjective experience is that that is some really awful, ugly art.

Jem and the Holograms, Power Up, Roller Girl (maybe skews older? But nothing objectionable,) the Akiko series, the Hilda series, Zita the Spacegirl.

Wow, that art is… really atrocious.

I mean, you might if you had just died,

They don't *not* talk about them, they just talk about them a lot less than they do about regular novels. I know from them that kids are still pretty into the Bone books, which surprised me since those were popular when I was in middle school (along with Captain Underpants for the younger/more reluctant readers.) This…

It might be that it hews just young enough that it's not on their radar (while I have one friend who works with 8-10 year old kids, they're specifically ones with lots of reading difficulties who may or may not be interested in content at this level) though you'd think it would have shown up on one of the YA lit blogs…

Weirdly, I have never heard of this author or any of her books (and I follow middle grades/YA/New Adult trends semi-closely.) I wonder how it hasn't made it into any conversations with my various library-sciences-type friends.

STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl is vaguely inspired by the novel/has a bunch of random elements from the novel.

Wait, what?

Did you read any of the "plot" of The Cursed Child? You're not wrong…

You're right. It would likely be a pretty warm sweater.

nope

Wait is this real

not windows

I did a "historic neighborhoods" bus tour with CAF (thanks for the free tickets, dad) and mentally took note a of bunch of perfectly usable spots in okay neighborhoods that could use a destination or two to liven up the street (and wouldn't further threaten the "open, clear, and free" manta of the lakefront.) If…

I mean, I get that motivation, but I don't "get" that motivation. School field trips (as metonym for any group) usually go to one or two things in a given outing. If they put a worthwhile museum in a moderately accessible location, people would go to it.
You don't really casually swing by the museum campus in the…

As a Chicagoan who has been following this fairly closely (my father is a docent with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, etc) it has never been clear why the museum needed to be on the lake. There's so much usable space close to downtown (empty light industrial areas, disused schools) that would have been a…

In most interviews he actually comes across as being very friendly, smart, and normal. Like you could shoot the shit about movies or cars or whatever and go for a beer. Really night and day with his film roles.

more of a MAC vibe. though covergirl did those artsy Star Wars ads…

is this a quote from the movie ?