Pokemon Season 4 Superlatives and Review

Pokemon Company Class Clown (Funniest Character): McKenzie from Doin’ What Comes Natu-rally (Ep. 203), He struggled to find his act as he trained alongside Natu, but I loved how he channeled his fears and insecurities into a comedy act.  Most Likely to Succeed (Best Trainer/Pokémon): Bayleef, Bayleef is slept on as one of Ash’s bestContinue reading “Pokemon Season 4 Superlatives and Review”

Lord of the Flies-William Golding

Published: 1954 (Faber and Faber) Setting: A deserted island Summary: Lord of the Flies is a seminal novel in the old canon of high school literature classes, but unlike many of its mid-century contemporaries (see: Catcher in the Rye, a book I enjoyed as a middle schooler, but as I get older I find it less and lessContinue reading “Lord of the Flies-William Golding”

Earthlings-Sayaka Murata

Published: 2018 (Shinchosa) Setting: 1990’s and 2010’s Tokyo and rural Nagano Summary: In Murata’s second novel to be widely-translated, Earthlings, an idiosyncratic young girl named Natsuki confronts childhood trauma in an unorthodox and revealing manner, ultimately ending in total detachment from human “Earthlings,” and their society at large, twenty years later. Natsuki, unfit to be in her normalContinue reading “Earthlings-Sayaka Murata”