June 2015
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STOLEN SONGBIRD – Danielle L. Jensen
There is a lot of good fiction on the market for young readers and Stolen Songbird, by Danielle L. Jensen is among that group of good fiction. I was about to read a different book by Jensen when I saw that it was a follow-up to Stolen Songbird, so I thought I’d best read this Continue reading
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THE DEATHS OF TAO – Wesley Chu
This is the second book in a series (trilogy?) and I have not read book one. There were times when I could tell I was missing something that had been revealed in the first book, but over-all, I felt that this was a very complete book by itself. There are two faction of an alien Continue reading
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DRIFTER, VOLUME 1 – graphic novel
It’s been awhile since I read a graphic novel for review here (please note that the reviews often come out two to three months after the book has been read and the review has been written; and that they are not necessarily released in the order read/reviewed) so I digitally grabbed the first one available Continue reading
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MARCH, BOOK 2 – graphic novel
A little more than a year ago I reviewed the first March book. You can read that review here. The review copy that I received is only one-quarter of the full book, but I think it’s safe to say that Book 2 is every bit as powerful and inspiring as was Book 1. As I Continue reading
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SIDESHOW – William Ollie
Although many readers are familiar with names like Stephen King or Peter Straub, or even H. P. Lovecraft, writing a novel-length horror tale is no easy task. Sustaining a high level of horror or fear through the development of a plot and the establishing of characters is tricky and it’s easy to lose the horror Continue reading
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THE BLOOD OF AN ENGLISHMAN – M.C. Beaton
It wasn’t too long ago that I reviewed the 24th book in the Agatha Raisin Mystery Series, Something Borrowed, Someone Dead, and now we have book #25 in the series and I have to say that Agatha Raisin is growing on me. In The Blood of an Englishman, Agatha encounters a murder at a local Continue reading
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WINGS IN THE DARK – Michael Murphy
Jake and Laura, who have become my favorite detecting couple, are up to their necks in another mystery in Michael Murphy’s Wings in the Dark. Now married and off to have some alone time for their honeymoon, Jake and Laura are trying to enjoy their anonymity when their friend Amelia Earhart, who is planning a record-breaking Continue reading
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THE BIG SNOW AND OTHER STORIES – Berta & Elmer Hader
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A REISSUE What is it about artwork from the 1930’s and 1940’s that it is immediately recognizable as being from the period? Particularly children’s book art? The Big Snow and Other Stories is a collection of three children’s picture books by Berta and Elmer Hader. Although there is a sub-title that reads Continue reading
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PETRONELLA & THE JANJILONS – Cheryl Bentley
Okay…I’ll admit that the first thing that drew me to this book was the beautiful B&W cover. Then, there’s the fact that this is a book geared toward a young (middle school reader) audience, and I like that. And it’s pretty clearly a fantasy. I like that, too! But what’s inside this book is quite Continue reading
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HALF A KING – Joe Abercrombie
One of the best things about writing this blog is being introduced to a wide range of authors. Some are well-known, some are new, some are new to me. Joe Abercrombie falls in to that last category. Where have I been? Why am I not more familiar with the name Joe Abercrombie? I recognized the Continue reading
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THE PAINTER’S SECRET GEOMETRY – Charles Bouleau
The arts are vastly under-respected. For so many people, you go to a play and you maybe think that the acting was good or the music was nice, or the costumes were pretty. You look at a painting and typically you might think it looks nice or it doesn’t. But do you ever stop to Continue reading
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