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Monday, April 3, 2017
Blowback by Valerie Plame, Sarah Lovett
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Rating: WARTY! I think this novel may have been misrepresented, because the smaller name on the cover did most of the writing, but that...
Saturday, April 1, 2017
The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
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Rating: WORTHY! This volume concludes the trilogy and is set a year after the previous one, when Gemma is about to come out to society....
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
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Rating: WORTHY! Now we're two months along from the end of the first novel, and we learn that Kartik has been ordered by the anti-O...
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
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Rating: WORTHY! Gemma Doyle is a girl in her mid-teens who is rather less than thrilled with her lot with life with her mother in India...
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
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Rating: WARTY! This was yet another take-a-chance audiobook from the library. It sounded good from the blurb, but was less than satisf...
Goodnight Campsite by Loretta Sponsler, Olga Shevchenko
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Rating: WARTY! This little book crashed my Kindle app on my smartphone - twice! The Kindle app always was crappy, but this is a preced...
Arriving at Ellis Island by Dale Anderson
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Rating: WORTHY! At a time when we have a president who seems dedicated to destroying all that the US stands for (apart from rampant cap...
King Hugo's Huge Ego by Chris van Dusen
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Rating: WORTHY! In a world where everyone is pushed to outdo everyone else and to inflate themselves to celebrity status in the most sh...
What Light by Jay Asher
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Rating: WARTY! This was another experimental audiobook (experimental for me, that is, probably not for the author or the audiobook read...
Saturn Run by John Sanderson, Ctein
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Rating: WARTY! If you want to know what five hundred pages of pure crap looks like, then this is definitely the book for you. Saturn R...
Touched by Cyn Balog
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Rating: WARTY! This is the last Cyn Balog I'm ever going to read because it was sad - not a sad story, but because it was badly wri...
Starstruck by Cyn Balog
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Rating: WARTY! This one is my third Cyn Balog novel. I liked the first two, but ran into issues with this one. It's about this ov...
Dead River by Cyn Balog
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Rating: WORTHY! This marks the start of three Cyn Balog books I got from the library, but it also marks the end of my interest in her, ...
Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
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Rating: WARTY! This is the first in a series, which I don't think I want to follow. It's also the last of my forays into the w...
The Witches' Guide to Cooking With Children by Keith Mcgowan
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Rating: WORTHY! This was a cute and amusing novel aimed at middle graders and younger. It's an easy and fast read, and it's ve...
The Awakening by Lisa M Lilly
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Rating: WARTY! Unfortunately, this is volume one of the inevitable "Awakening" series, which I have no intention of following...
Sophomore Year Is Greek to Me by Meredith Zeitlin
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Rating: WARTY! Zona Lowell is fifteen and is halfway through her second year of high-school, which in Canada and the USA is known, soph...
A Vision of Fire by Gillian Anderson, Jeff Rovin
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Rating: WARTY! If I had known this was volume one of the 'Earthend Saga', I would never have picked it up. I don't do saga...
Toru: Wayfarer Returns by Stephanie R Sorensen
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Rating: WORTHY! Note that this was an advance review copy, for which I thank the publisher. It's been a while since I've fond ...
Messenger: The Legend of Joan of Arc by Tony Lee, Sam Hart
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Rating: WARTY! This was a very disappointing graphic novel which I got from my wonderful local library about the woman the French know ...
Battling Boy by Paul Pope
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Rating: WARTY! I'm back again after taking a couple of weeks off from blogging to pursue illustrations for the print version of Bak...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Basher Basics: Punctuation by Mary Budzik, Simon Basher
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Rating: WORTHY! Part of a series which covers a wide variety of educational topics from science to writing to music and math, and so on...
Basher Basics: Creative Writing by Mary Budzik, Simon Basher
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Rating: WORTHY! This is part of a series I'd never seen before. It evidently started out with science books and now has also branc...
Sunday, March 19, 2017
First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
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Rating: WARTY! I liked my previous foray into Sarah Addison Allen via The Peach keeper , but I literally could not get into this at all...
Fairy Tale by Cyn Balog
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Rating: WORTHY! I was so thrilled to read this book - an example of how to write a really well-done high-school romance. This book was...
Jane Austen's England by Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins
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Rating: WORTHY! Sometimes fortune favors the depraved, so today I have two books to blog which were pure joy to read. The first is thi...
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