Stack Overflow Archives

Stack Overflow: Revisiting ‘Inkheart’, Exploring ‘Inkworld’

February 17, 2025February 17, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

I re-read the ‘Inkheart’ series by Cornelia Funke before reading the latest book, ‘Inkworld: The Color of Revenge.’

Stack Overflow: Comics on Comics

February 10, 2025February 9, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Several comic books about comic books (and art).

Stack Overflow: 11 Titles to Start the New Year

January 27, 2025January 24, 2025Mariana Ruiz

Very interesting titles open our reads of the year, some old, some new.

Stack Overflow: Recent Reads

January 20, 2025January 19, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s column: a mixed bag of books I’ve been reading lately.

Stack Overflow: Our Favorite Books of 2024

January 13, 2025January 7, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

Every year we like to look back at what we’ve read and pick a few of our favorites. Here are some of our best reads from 2024.

Small crocheted person standing in a gap between several standing books.

Stack Overflow: 2025 Reading Resolutions

January 6, 2025January 2, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

The beginning of the year is always a time of reflections and projections, and what more appropriate way to think about turning over a new leaf than by considering the leaves we plan to be turning in our books?

Stack Overflow: 2024 Reading Reflections

December 30, 2024January 2, 2025Jonathan H. Liu

We look back at the year and see how reality lined up to our expectations and aspirations for our reading resolutions.

Stack Overflow: Play It Again, Sam

December 10, 2024December 10, 2024Jonathan H. Liu

Looks like I’ve got a case of the sequels!

Stack Overflow: Fantastical Fiction

December 2, 2024December 2, 2024Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s stack are two very different books—the only thing they have in common is magic, though even that is of completely different sorts.

Stack Overflow: 9 New Titles Coming Up in November

November 20, 2024November 19, 2024Mariana Ruiz

Lots of middle grade débuts in this one.

Stack Overflow: Recent Reads

November 18, 2024November 18, 2024Jonathan H. Liu

This week’s stack is a grab bag of recent reads!

Stack Overflow: Changing the World

November 11, 2024November 11, 2024Jonathan H. Liu

These two novels are both about changing reality, though in very different ways: one is about how information shapes our understanding of the world (and who controls that information), and the other is about literally reshaping the world with an unusual ability.

Stack Overflow: 14 New Titles Coming Up in October

October 28, 2024October 27, 2024Mariana Ruiz

There is a huge range of titles coming up.

Stack Overflow: Get Ready to Vote

October 21, 2024October 21, 2024Jonathan H. Liu

As you probably know, we’ve got an election coming up here in the US, and it’s a contentious one. The stakes are high … again. This will be the first presidential election that two of my kids will get to vote in, and we’ve had a lot of conversations about the state of the world, […]

Stack Overflow: Spooky Reads for (Mostly) Kids

October 14, 2024October 13, 2024Jonathan H. Liu

We’re halfway into October, the month of pumpkin spice and giant Home Depot skeletons, so today’s stack is spooky books for kids!

Stack Overflow: Skipping Ahead

October 7, 2024October 6, 2024Jonathan H. Liu

What if you could skip to the good parts?

Stack Overflow: World Citizen Comics

September 23, 2024September 23, 2024Jonathan H. Liu

First Second has a series of books called World Citizen Comics: non-fiction comics meant to educate and inform readers on how to be good citizens. Here are the three latest books that I’ve read.

Stack Overflow: Artificial Intelligence

September 16, 2024September 16, 2024Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s stack is about artificial intelligence, seen mostly through the lens of fiction, often stretching the limits of what may be possible.

Stack Overflow: 12 New Titles Coming Up in September

September 12, 2024September 16, 2024Mariana Ruiz

Picture books, middle grade novels, nonfiction books, and graphic novels are in the mix.

Stack Overflow: It’s a Mystery!

September 2, 2024September 1, 2024Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s stack: a handful of kids’ books that involve mysteries—a couple are traditional mystery stories, and a couple are just stories that involve something mysterious.

Stack Overflow: 10 New Titles Coming Up in August

August 19, 2024August 18, 2024Mariana Ruiz

Nonfiction books, how-to-draw books, and graphic novels await.

Stack Overflow: Unfinished Business

August 12, 2024August 11, 2024Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s stack: a few books I mentioned when I’d started reading them but haven’t gone back to write about now that I’ve finished. So, let’s pick these threads back up and tie them off properly, shall we?

Stack Overflow: 5 Comic Books

August 5, 2024August 5, 2024Jonathan H. Liu

Today I’ve got a mix of comics—mostly for kids, though there’s one that is definitely not intended for kids, too.

Stack Overflow: Out of Time

July 29, 2024July 29, 2024Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s stack involves characters moving through time in unusual ways.

Stack Overflow: New Titles Coming Up in July

July 15, 2024July 14, 2024Mariana Ruiz

Check out these children’s books being released in July!

Stack Overflow: Ghost Stories

June 24, 2024June 24, 2024Jonathan H. Liu

Today’s column is about ghosts—some literal, some figurative.

Stack Overflow: New Titles Coming Up in June

June 17, 2024June 17, 2024Mariana Ruiz

Lovely picture books and a couple of novels for your young and teen readers.

Stack Overflow: Make a Wish

June 10, 2024June 9, 2024Jonathan H. Liu

Sometimes you get what you wish for, and sometimes magical thinking fails to pay off. Today’s stack involves stories of wishes and dreams, some granted and some unfulfilled.