October 2016 – Page 2 – Looking For a Good Book

October 17, 2016

THE STORYBOOK KNIGHT – Helen Docherty and Thomas Docherty

Originally posted on Looking For a Good Book: Yes! Yes! Yes! I am not typically a fan of rhyming children’s picture books, and the rhyme here is a little forced at times (read it out loud and you will stumble a bit), but the story is SO sweet and the art so FANTASTIC that I… Continue reading

Uncategorized

October 15, 2016

LOCK AND KEY: THE INITIATION – Ridley Pearson

Ridley Pearson, the popular author of the Peter Pan story Peter and the Starcatchers, reboots the Sherlock Holmes series with Lock and Key: The Initiation. James Moriarty (and his sister Moria) is sent to the boarding school Baskerville Academy. He doesn’t want to go, but his father strongly reminds him that attendance at Baskerville is Continue reading

CHILDREN’S, MYSTERY, YA

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Children’s Books, Reviews, Young Adult

October 14, 2016

PUMPKINS IN PARADISE – Kathi Daley

Tj Jensen is just your typical soccer mom. She’s coaching the local girl’s team and heading to the state finals. She’s also volunteering at the local pumpkin festival. And when she discovers her good friend Zachary Collins dead in his chair at home and the local police close the case without much investigation, Tj takes it Continue reading

MYSTERY, Uncategorized

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Mystery, Reviews

October 13, 2016

GRAVEN IMAGES – Jane Waterhouse

THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A REISSUE I have no idea where this book came from. I have a new Kindle that I’ve been using to load only the newest books that I receive from publishers/publicists for review and I am reading them in consecutive order as I get them. This was the next book on that Continue reading

Dark Fantasy/Horror, MYSTERY, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Horror/Dark Fantasy, Mystery, Reviews

October 12, 2016

WHITE SAND – graphic novel

I know the name of Brandon Sanderson but I’ve never read anything by him before this. I thought that this might be a good introduction to him and his work. I was wrong. White Sand is based on an unpublished work of Sanderson’s. Cool. I love the idea of using new/old material from an author Continue reading

GRAPHIC NOVEL, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Graphic Novels, Reviews

October 11, 2016

BLADES OF THE OLD EMPIRE – Anna Kashina

There are about five reviewers I follow (and who, in turn, follow me) on Goodreads, whose choice in books and ratings are very similar to my own. I have been sitting on the ARC of this particular book for a couple of years, somewhat hesitant to get in to it, in part because one of Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized, YA

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy, Young Adult

October 10, 2016

NEIL GAIMAN’S TROLL BRIDGE – graphic novel

Neil Gaiman writes about children coming of age in a dark and mysterious world better than anyone ever has before. Troll Bridge is a deceptively simple, but tremendously powerful modern fairy tale in which our narrator encounters a troll while a young boy enjoying the outdoors. Though the troll hopes to eat the boy, the Continue reading

CHILDREN’S, GRAPHIC NOVEL, SF/FANTASY

5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Children’s Books, Graphic Novels, Reviews, SF/Fantasy, Young Adult

October 8, 2016

UNFED – Kirsty McKay

I recently went through my back-log of un-read ARCs with the intention of catching up on my reading and one of the older books in my ARC queue is this … Unfed, by Kirsty McKay. I like zombie fiction and I like a lot of YA fiction, so I thought this would be a fun Continue reading

YA

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, Young Adult

October 7, 2016

WITHOUT COPYRIGHTS – Robert Spoo

In this age of digital media, with authors and artists and publishing companies expressing concern over the ease of piracy of their work, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that the laws of copyright are ever-changing and that piracy of written works has been going on for a long time. Author Robert Continue reading

NON-FICTION, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, History, non-fiction, Reviews

October 6, 2016

THE WILD WEST: 1804-1890 – James I. Robertson & Mort Künstler

If you aren’t already familiar with the artwork of Mort Künstler, I can promise that if you see his work once, you will remember him. This brief history book, targeted toward young readers will definitely … most definitely … captured a youngsters interest, first with the outstanding art by Künstler, and then by James Robertson’s narrative that Continue reading

NON-FICTION, OTHER

5 Stars, Art, Book Reviews, Books, History, non-fiction, Reviews

October 5, 2016

KING OF THE CRACKSMEN – Dennis O’Flaherty

Although billed as a steampunk novel, King of the Cracksmen by Dennis O’Flaherty is more in line with being an Alternative History sci-fi book than a straight up steampunk novel. It is 1877 and Abraham Lincoln is still the U.S. President as he’s never been assassinated. But Lincoln hasn’t been seen for many months, so Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

October 4, 2016

MONSTRESS #5 & #6 – graphic novel/comic

I absolutely love how this story is developing. For those of us used to reading the longer format (graphic novel), reading this as individual comics gets frustrating because it is over so quickly. Still, writer Marjorie Liu manages to pack a lot of information and story build into a short space. In this issue we Continue reading

GRAPHIC NOVEL, SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

4 stars, 5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, comic book superheroes, Graphic Novels, Reviews, SF/Fantasy