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Showing posts with label contemporary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contemporary. Show all posts
Thursday, October 8, 2020

Great Hoaxers Artful Fakers and Cheating Charlatans by Nigel Blundell, Sue Blackhall

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Rating: WORTHY! This was an entertaining print book featuring an assortment of over thirty stories about people from the distant past ...
Monday, September 2, 2019

Cinders by Cara Malone

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Rating: WARTY! Erratum “She leaned against the hood and worried at a hangnail on her pointy finger” Surely she means 'pointer fin...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

Return to Cinder by Kristy Tate

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Rating: WORTHY! Having enjoyed Magic Beneath the Huckleberries by this author, I thought this might be a decent read too, and it was. ...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall

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Rating: WORTHY! This is another audiobook, read sweetly by Susan Denaker, but once again I learned after I picked it up at the library ...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Bad Machinery Volume 5 The Case of the Fire Inside by John Allison

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Rating: WORTHY! This was one of the last two of this series that I had not read yet, although by no means the last in chronological ord...

Bad Machinery Volume 2 The Case of the Good Boy by John Allison

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Rating: WORTHY! This is the second to last I've read in this series, but the second to be published chronologically. In the story,...
Sunday, July 7, 2019

Giant Days Not on the Test Edition by John Allison, Lissa Treiman, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar

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Rating: WARTY! I 'graduated' to this from the Bad Machinery graphic novels which I loved, but I was very disappointed in this o...
Saturday, July 6, 2019

Bad Machinery Volume 7 The Case of the Forked Road by John Allison

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Rating: WORTHY! Here I go reviewing the last volume before I've read them all. The others are on the way. This one, surprisingly,...

Painting Masterclass by Susie Hodge

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Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Subtitled "Creative Techniques of 100 Great A...
Thursday, July 4, 2019

Bad Machinery Volume 4 The Case of the Lonely One by John Allison

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Rating: WORTHY! Another outing for Charlotte, Linton, Jack, Mildred, Shauna, and Sonny, who are now in the second year at Griswold Gram...

Bad Machinery Volume 3 The Case of the Simple Soul by John Allison

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Rating: WORTHY! This is volume one of the graphic novel series for which I reviewed volume six yesterday. The volumes are, in order: T...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Bad Machinery Volume 6 The Case of the Unwelcome Visitor by John Allison

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Rating: WORTHY! This graphic novel amused me from the outset, even more than I had hoped it would from a quick scan of it in the librar...
Saturday, February 2, 2019

The Speed of Light by Amber Kizer

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Rating: WARTY! This is the third volume in the 'Meridian' trilogy which began with Meridian in 2009, and was followed by Wildc...
Friday, November 16, 2018

More Than Bones by Craig David Singer

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Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Emily is a med school graduate embarking on her int...
Friday, November 2, 2018

Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

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Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This was a largely well-written and highly amusing...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Luisa Now and Then by Carole Maurel

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Rating: WORTHY! Published in French originally as Luisa: Ici et là (strictly speaking, Luisa Here and there), with this English versio...
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

One Day So Many Ways by Laura Hall, Loris Lora

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Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Written descriptively by Hall and illustrated well...
Monday, October 1, 2018

Invincible Iron Man by Brian Michael Bendis, Stefano Caselli, Kate Niemczyk, Taki Soma, Kiichi Mizushima, Marte Gracia, Israel Silva

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Rating: WORTHY! So I read the second volume of the Ironheart graphic novel - this is the one featuring a female (a young female - she...

Invincible Iron Man Ironheart by Brian Michael Bendis, Stefano Caselli, Marte Gracia

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Rating: WORTHY! I tend not to read many super hero comics because they often rub me up the wrong way and the poses the artists put the ...
Friday, June 1, 2018

Summit Vol 1: The Long Way Home by Amy Chu, Jan Duursema

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Rating: WORTHY! Errata: Aeropsace on p13 Misspelled. This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. There was an...