I went to the Wonder Woman movie with no preconceived notions, and without any great desire to even see it…and that was pretty much how I felt when I left the theater. “Meh” sums it up perfectly for me, two hours lost, that sort of thing. As a comics fan, I’d read the story of Diana Prince and her Island of Amazon women when I was younger, and I loved the Lynda Carter series in the late 1970’s. But I can’t say this newest incarnation added anything to the iconic character oth

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins This is Hawkins’ follow-up novel to the superbly plotted The Girl on the Train. Into the Water, not as much. The story takes place in the British town of Beckford, where you don’t want to live if you’re female. Because women die. A lot of them. They jump, dive, or slip into the river that snakes through town. The story’s primary focus is on Nel Abbott and Katie Whittaker, two recent suicides, or so people believe. Big players are Sean (the dete