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Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Thursday, September 16, 2021

The Song Machine by John Seabrook

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Rating: WORTHY! Read nicely by Dion Graham - although I could have done without his singing and his attempts to portray a woman speaki...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

Rock 'n' Roll Heretic: The Life and Times of Rory Tharpe by Sikivu Hutchinson

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Rating: WARTY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This author is a feminist writer who has several non-fic...
Friday, April 2, 2021

That Thing about Bollywood by Supriya Kelkar

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This middle-grade work of fiction is about Sonali, a yo...
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

The Story of Rap by Caterpillar Books, Lindsey Sagar

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Rating: WORTHY! This book made it under the wire despite being slightly inauthentic - presenting everything as beautiful in the world o...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

The Mozart Conspiracy by Susanne Dunlap

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Rating: WARTY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is volume two in an amateur detective series. I did n...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Jem and The Holograms Dark Jem by Kelly Thompson, Sophie Campbell, M Victoria Robado

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Rating: WARTY! Back in mid-September of 2015, I favorably reviewed the debut graphic novel in this series by the same author, Kelly Tho...
Saturday, February 2, 2019

The Men Who Would be King by Nicole LaPorte

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Rating: WORTHY! Playing on the title The Man Who Would Be King which was published by Rudyard Kipling in 1888 and made into a movie st...
Saturday, December 15, 2018

Ella Queen of Jazz by Helen Hancocks

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Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This was a very short book - effectively only thir...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Dan Zane's House Party by Dan Zane, Donald Saaf, Claudia Eliaza

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Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is one party that got my vote! It's a fu...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

From This Moment on by Shania Twain

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Rating: WARTY! Shania Twain was born neither Shania nor Twain. She was Eilleen Edwards. The Shania was an invention (and not an Ojibw...
Sunday, July 1, 2018

The Beatles on the Roof by Tony Barrell

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Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This was a short, easy read, full of interesting f...
Friday, June 1, 2018

The Stereotypical Freaks by Howard Shapiro, Joe Pekar

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Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. It was another 'read now' offering from Ne...
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Gilbert & Sullivan Set Me Free by Kathleen Karr

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Rating: WARTY! This audio book was a full-cast production, although it's more aptly described as a full body-cast production since ...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales

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Rating: WARTY! This is yet another let's-give-it-a-try audiobook which turned out to be a mistake. It was read tiresomely by Rebec...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban

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Rating: WORTHY! Normally I avoid like the plague stories which feature striped socks on the cover - which is almost a genre of its own ...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Mozart Musical Masterpieces (author uncredited!)

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Rating: WORTHY! I've never understood why audiobook producers are so obsessed with larding-up the book with musical introductions a...
Sunday, November 8, 2015

Get Back, Imagine...Saving John Lennon by Donovan Day

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Rating: WARTY! NOTE: I understand from the author that this book is undergoing some changes, so this advance review may not apply to th...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Jem and the Holograms: Showtime by Kelly Thompson

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Rating: WORTHY! This is a graphic novel based on an animated TV series which ran from the mid to late eighties (the TV show was titled ...
Friday, May 1, 2015

Cosmic Dancer by Paul Roland

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Title: Cosmic Dancer Author: Paul Roland Publisher: Tomahawk Press Rating: WARTY! Had he lived, Marc Bolan would have looked ...
Monday, July 1, 2013

The Prelude by KaSonndra Leigh

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Title: The Prelude: A Musical Interlude Novel Author: KaSonndra Leigh Publisher: KaSonndra Leigh Books Ra...