I have a question for readers. Has there been an author or authors you have tried repeatedly to read? N.K. Jemisin has been one of those authors for me. Jemisin has gained recognition in the science fiction and fantasy genre over the past several years with...
Icon #12
by MHill | Aug 27, 2021 | Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
"Don't forget, you're a full-time student and a part-time superhero." Icon told Rocket the aforementioned sentence at the beginning of Issue 12 while they were saving someone from being robbed. Rocket has been trying to manage her life of high school student,...
Icon #11
by MHill | Aug 25, 2021 | Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
A fourth-grader named Todd Loomis wrote a paper for his class about what he did on his Christmas vacation break. He got to see Icon and Rocket in action as they took down some criminal gun dealers. The gun dealers were trying flood the city of Dakota with guns and...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 86: The Moon Lady by Amy Tan
by MHill | Aug 24, 2021 | 2021 Book Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Over the past weekend, I watched author Amy Tan's Netflix Documentary: Unintended Memoir. The documentary focused on the family relationships (especially with her mother) that helped form her art. I had read none of Amy Tan's books before and the documentary gave me...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 85: Where Do We Go From Here-Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.
by MHill | Aug 21, 2021 | 2021 Book Reviews, Black History Month, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Nonfiction, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
"We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community." Martin Luther King's last sentence from his last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community sums up...
Icon #10
by MHill | Aug 15, 2021 | Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Rocket apologizes to Icon for connecting with Holocaust. She learns that Holocaust wants to control the city of Dakota. Icon confronts Holocaust and two dialogue about the role of the Big Bang and how it has affected the city. That dialogue leads to a confrontation...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 84: The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
by MHill | Aug 11, 2021 | 2021 Book Reviews, Black History Month, Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
"Grace meets you exactly where you are and it doesn't leave you." I heard the author Anne Lamott say this quote on the Tim Ferriss podcast a couple of days ago and knew this would be the opening sentence to my latest book review. Grace would be the proper view about...
Icon #9
by MHill | Aug 7, 2021 | Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
My goal is to re-read and review the entire forty-two issue run of Icon that was published by Milestone Media in conjunction with DC Comics from 1993-1997. I have read the first story arc of eight issues that set-up the origin of Icon and his teenage sidekick,...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 83: Wild Women and the Blues by Denny S. Bryce
by MHill | Aug 6, 2021 | 2021 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
If you live to be 110, how would you look back at your life? With Fondness? With Regret? Missed Opportunities? Or At Peace? The protagonist of Denny S. Bryce's debut novel, Wild Women and the Blues, gets to answer that question. Honoree Dalcour is in mid-1920s...
Marion’s Favorites: Mary J. Blige’s My Life Documentary
by MHill | Jul 27, 2021 | Marion's Favorites, Movie Reviews, Music Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Mary J. Blige's My Life is one of my top ten favorite albums and one of the most important R&B albums to be recorded in the last thirty years. Blige's pain and vulnerability soars throughout the entire album and how sings over strong hip-hop beats makes it a...