Mr. Burke's Reading List

A Sick Life: TLC 'n Me: Stories from On and Off the Stage , by Tionne Watkins (2017) (Not a review, just some notes to help me remember the things I've read. But written this way because it's the Internet, and some people will stumble across this page.) The title "A Sick Life" is has a double meaning in that it is "sick" (slang) the life that being a part of a successful singing trio leads to, while at the same time acknowledging the struggles that Tionne Watkins (I assume Tionne is pronounced like Dionne) had with a crippling disease that she didn't have a diagnosis for her until she was an adult. She has a rare form of sickle-cell and had been told that she would live until adulthood, nor would she ever have children. She proved the doctors wrong. The book covers the birth of her daughter, Chase, her marriage and divorce, the crazy life and sudden death of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and discovering, on top of everything e...

The Supervillain Field Manual: How to Conquer (Super) Friends and Incinerate People , by King Oblivion, PhD, as told to Matt D. Wilson (2013) Illustrated by Adam Wallenta (Not a review, just some notes to help me remember the things I've read. But written this way because it's the Internet, and some people will stumble across this page.) This will be short because I wrote this up and it dissovled in the digital round file. Every now and then, I check what's free on Amazon, and this appeared. It looked interesting, and it was. I thought it might be a graphic novel. It was not. It's a humor book, and it was sufficiently amusing. The first thing I noticed was the reviews, starting with one by Stan Lee and moving on to other comic industry professionals. This told me something worth reading was coming. (You have to watch out for free things.) The second thing I disovered, as was mentioned many times throughout the text that this was a sequel. This was...