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MAGRUDER’S CURIOSITY CABINET – H. P. Wood
So many people seem to be falling in love with this book, but I can’t help but wonder if it is due in part to a great publicity campaign, of if I’m just really missing out on something. I was not enthralled with this book. The biggest problem that I have with this book is that… Continue reading
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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
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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
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THE DARKNESS OF SHADOWS – Chris Little
Natalie plans to kill her father before he can do more harm to the family that has taken her in and nurtured her. Along the way, she learns she has magical powers that had been kept secret from her. Her father just wants Natalie to finish a ritual, but the supernatural community isn’t too excited about… Continue reading
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TOMORROW’S HERITAGE – Juanita Coulson
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A REISSUE I haven’t read much by Juanita Coulson, but when I see her name I have two reactions … first, that she was one of the early authors for the LaserBooks series in the 1970’s, and that I met her and Buck at a convention in Minneapolis many, MANY years ago.… Continue reading
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ART OPS: HOW TO START A RIOT – graphic novel
What did I just read? Let me start with the first two paragraphs from the Goodreads description: Reggie Riot is no one’s idea of a cultural savior. The latchkey child of a busy single mother, he’s grown up to be a resentful slacker whose idea of high culture is getting stoned and admiring the graffiti… Continue reading
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MYSTERIES OF MOTION – Hortense Calisher
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A REISSUE I will admit that I often don’t pay a lot of attention to where a book was published while I’m reading it. It is early, when I request it, that I know where it has come from, and then again when I’m reviewing my notes for my review that I… Continue reading
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BEHIND THE MIC – Robert Dustman
Why do we read memoirs? We read biographies and autobiographies to learn more about a person. But why do we read memoirs? The answer, I suspect, is different for everyone, but mostly I think it’s for insight. Either into a person; human nature; or a profession. Behind the Mic, by Robert Dustman, is an autobiography… Continue reading
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GREEN LANTERN VOL. 7: RENEGADE – graphic novel
I’ve long been a fan of the Green Lantern series of comics/graphic novels, though for whatever reason, I haven’t read too many of them here for this review blog. This book is a good companion piece to the graphic novel Green Lantern Corp: Lost Army Vol 1, which I reviewed last week. In that book,… Continue reading
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WHO WANTS TO BE THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS? – Michael Boatman
I will admit that I was hesitant to request this book because I was not particularly fond of Last God Standing, author Michael Boatman’s previous book. But I think it’s only fair to give an author more than one read, and I typically really like the books published by Angry Robot. In Who Wants to… Continue reading
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SWORDS OF SORROW: THE COMPLETE SAGA – graphic novel
Well, I was very excited for this book. Seeing Gail Simone’s name on a book of female warrior heroes, I was pretty sure that this would be another great story with strong women in strong roles. Sadly, I was wrong. The story: A whole bunch of strong female characters, some I am familiar with (Vampirella,… Continue reading
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THE WOKEN GODS – Gwenda Bond
The bandwagon is moving on. Gwenda Bond’s The Woken Gods is a YA novel that fits right into the ‘this is what everyone’s reading’ category. Ancient gods rising/waking and causing havoc and just might bring about the end of everything. This could be the description of an eighth of all the YA books that have… Continue reading
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