Candy Bunny Reader

What's your favorite movie/show/video game (yeah, he's voiced video game characters!) Tim Curry was in? Mine was when he voiced the Mouse King in Barbie in the Nutcracker. When a legend passes away, you have to read his life story.  Vagabond is famous British actor Tim Curry 's memoir, chronicling his early years growing up in Britain, how he got into acting, and some fun behind the scenes trivia and sentiments about his time working on his most famous projects, from The Rocky Horror Picture Show to The Wild Thornberrys.   This was very digestible! Tim Curry wrote his book with a lot of dry humor but also warmth. He has never been one to stayed tied down to one place for too long (hence the title "Vagabond"), and he hopes that his memoir touches his readers' in some way (it did for me!).   I gave this 5 stars ! 

 TW: Mentions of war, internment camps, racism, and politics A few days ago I read Displacement by Kiku Hughes . This is a graphic novel about a teenage girl named Kiku who, during a summer vacation with her mother, gets randomly transported back in time to the WW2 era and experiences first hand what it was like to be in the internment camps a lot of Japanese-Americans got sent to, and she learns that her own grandmother and great-grandparents were victims themselves. She tries to navigate the past while trying to figure out how to get back to her own time, and how to explain all of it to her mother when she gets back.  This graphic novel has a mix of being autobiographical (it's based on the author's own family history), science fiction, and historical, with educational bits and pieces underlying the main narrative.  I really enjoyed this book! The story did get a little sad at times, but it was so fascinating to learn about the author's family history, and what she also...