Sunday, September 1, 2019

Book Club Picks for September: The Phantom Tollbooth and Faith: Hollywood and Vine

Happy first day of September! It's not even officially fall yet it's already cold and rainy outside. All the dreary weather aside, it time to post this month's book club picks.

Since, last month's pick for The Book Girl's Book Club was literature (I'm nearly finished reading it and will have the review up soon), I wanted to pick something different. I thought we could read The Phantom Tollbooth, a children's classic that have never read before.

Now for the Comic Book Club, I thought we could read Faith: Hollywood and Vine, it's a superhero miniseries that centers around the new hero, Zephyr.

I think both books will make for interesting read.


The Book Girl's Book Club Pick:


Book: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster with illustration by Jules Feiffer

Description:

For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams. . . .







Comic Book Club Pick:


Book: Faith: Hollywood and Vine (issues #1-4) by Jody Houser with illustration by Francis Portela and Marguerite Sauvage

Description:

Orphaned at a young age, Faith Herbert - a psionically gifted "psiot" discovered by the Harbinger Foundation - has always aspired to greatness. But now this once ordinary teenager is taking control of her destiny and becoming the hard-hitting hero she's always known she can be - complete with a mild-mannered secret identity, unsuspecting colleagues, and a day job as a reporter that routinely throws into her harms way! Well, at least she thought it would… When she's not typing up listicles about cat videos, Faith makes a secret transformation to patrol the night as the City of Angels' own leading superhero - the sky-soaring Zephyr!

But flying solo is going to be tougher than she ever thought when Zephyr uncovers a deep-rooted alien conspiracy. Two-bit burglars and car thieves are one thing, but when the world needs a hero to stave off an full-blown extraterrestrial invasion, will Faith find herself in over her head…or ready for her biggest challenge yet?

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