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STAR TREK: CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER – graphic novel
Yes! Finally a Star Trek graphic novel that combines an interesting, well-thought-out story with really terrific art wherein familiar characters actually look like the characters we readers know! It helps that this book is a graphic novel adaptation of a much-loved Star Trek episode, “City on the Edge of Forever,” by noted author Harlan Ellison. So… Continue reading
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ALL OUR YESTERDAYS – Cristin Terrill
Lots of stars on Goodreads, and so many praise-raving reviews, I really expected to sink my teeth into this one, but sadly it was just another YA moan-fest with an interesting twist. (Uh oh…I think I just earned some angry feedback!) The story: Em and Finn are in prison. Despite being spunky teenagers, they out-smart the… Continue reading
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RED BLOODED – Amanda Carlson
**WARNING — POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD** I knew going in to this book that it was part of a series that I have not read. Fortunately this is written in such a way that it manages to be a complete story. Yes…there is some back story that would be nice to know, but author Carlson fills… Continue reading
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SHUTTER, VOL. 1: WANDERLOST – graphic novel
Wow. Wow. Finally…a graphic novel that explores the full range of possibilities of the medium — and does it well. Shutter is so packed with creative bizarre-ness that it will most likely be confusing to most readers. And truthfully…if I were to read this by the individual issues as the come out on the stands,… Continue reading
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THE ONLY LIVING BOY – graphic novel
I’m not sure where I got this book … it doesn’t appear to have come from NetGalley or Edelweiss (two organizations from whom I receive Advance Readers Copies of books) … but I’m very glad that I got it and read it because it was really delightful. There is a quality about the boy that… Continue reading
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THE WHISPERING SKULL – Jonathan Stroud
Jonathan Stroud has done it again … he has written a spell-binding, terrifying novel in a world where ghosts are real and quite threatening. In The Whispering Skull, book two of Lockwood & Company, our intrepid ghost hunters Lucy, Lockwood, and George investigate the hauntings of a Victorian doctor who raided graveyards and built a… Continue reading
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ETIQUETTE & ESPIONAGE – Gail Carriger
Who hasn’t imagined themselves as a spy? Spy books are great escapist fiction because most of us, at one time or another, have secretly fantasized about how much fun it would be to be a spy. Here in Etiquette & Espionage, the first book in the “Finishing School” series by Gail Carriger, Carriger combines spy… Continue reading
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STORM FRONT – Jim Butcher
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A BOOK FROM MY LIBRARY I’m very familiar with The Dresden Files, having seen episodes of the series on the SciFi Network; read some of the graphic novels; and read short stories of the series in various anthologies, but I’d yet to read the actual book series. And while I’ve been fortunate… Continue reading
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ECHOPRAXIA – Peter Watts
What might a Luddite look like in the future? Possibly like Daniels Brüks, the central character in Peter Watts’ novel Echopraxia. Brüks (not called a Luddite, but ‘baseline’) is a human who doesn’t enhance himself with a lot of technology, which is unusual in his time (and ours, really). Considered an odd throwback, Brüks is out… Continue reading
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BOTTICELLI’S BASTARD – Stephen Maitland-Lewis
I have chosen to read a number of books with an art theme lately, and generally I have enjoyed them. Botticelli’s Bastard, a historical-fantasy-mystery novel is the latest in art-themes, and does not maintain the same quality of writing that I’ve seen in the other books. Anyone who has taken a college fiction or creative… Continue reading
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